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The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) is federal legislation that makes it unlawful to discriminate against individuals on the basis of their genetic profiles in regard to health insurance and employment.
For Patients and Families
The Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center helps people find useful information about genetic and rare diseases.
For Teachers
The genetic timeline lesson plan gives students an historical perspective of the discoveries that led to our present understanding of the human genome.
Fact Sheets
Genetic mapping offers evidence that a disease transmitted from parent to child is linked to one or more genes and clues about where a gene lies on a chromosome.
Research Training
An opportunity for medical school graduates to complete a combined, five-year residency program in pediatrics and medical genetics.
Fact Sheets
Genetics refers to the study of genes and their roles in inheritance. Genomics refers to the study of all of a person's genes (the genome).
… organisms. In the case of a cell, a clone refers to any genetically identical cell in a population that comes from a … the same ancestor gene. Cloning an organism means making a genetically identical copy of all of the cells, tissues, and … stem cells could then be used to create new tissue that is genetically identical to that of the patient. Reproductive …
Research Training
This program offers training in a combined program of maternal-fetal medicine and medical genetics.
Educational Resources
Newborn genetic screening is testing performed on newborn babies to detect a wide variety of disorders.
Genetic Disorders
Cri du chat syndrome is a rare genetic condition that is caused by the deletion of genetic material on the the p arm of chromosome 5.