Genetic Counseling (UMAP)

A unit that involves probability and statistics and genetic counseling. The purpose of this module is to: 1) provide an authentic application of elementary probability; and 2) introduce binomial probability through a real-life application.

Table of Contents:

1. GENETIC DISEASE
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Cystic Fibrosis and Huntington's Disease

2. MECHANISMS OF INHERITANCE
2.1 Recessive and Dominant Diseases
2.2 Genotypes and Their Probabilities

3. GENETIC COUNSELING
3.1 Predicting the Occurrence of Genetic Disease
3.2 Some Typical Problems
3.3 Conditional Probability

4. THE INCIDENCE OF HEREDITARY DISEASE
4.1 Patterns of Inheritance
4.2 Predicting the Incidence of Hereditary Disease with Binomial Probability

5. SAMPLE EXAM

6. ANSWERS TO EXERCISES

7. ANSWERS TO SAMPLE EXAM