Cardiovascular Genetics and Genomics

Section A: Principles.

1 Principles of genetics and genomics.

2 Candidate gene and genome-wide association approaches.

3 A primer in statistical methods in genetics.

4 Ethical, legal, and social issues.

5 The role of ethnicity in managing cardiovascular patients.

6 Moving to the bedside: When? How?.

Section B: Specific cardiovascular disease.

7 Genomics and Atrial Arrhythmias.

8 Ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death.

9 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Other Forms of Hypertrophy.

10 Genetics and genomics of dilated cardiomyopathy.

11 Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy.

12 Genetics of atherosclerosis.

13 Hypertension.

14 Stroke Genomics.

15 Thrombosis.

16 Case study: warfarin pharmacogenetics from single to multiple genes.

17 Pharmacogenetics and Pharmacogenomics.