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Basic Principles of Genetics and Gene Therapy

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Therapy of Skin Diseases

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Key Features

  • Mendelian diseases vs. complex traits.

  • Mendelian patterns of inheritance.

  • Exceptions to the basic Mendelian patterns of inheritance.

  • Chromosomal disorders and polygenetic diseases.

  • Gene therapy.

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