[Mpd-oz] Free Public Lecture - 18 August - 'Decoding your genes - how much do you want to know?'

[Ken Young]

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Dear Colleagues

Please on-forward the below message to interested staff and colleagues.
Thank you.

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Decoding your genes - how much do you want to know?

To be delivered by
Laureate Professor Samuel F Berkovic AM

Director, Epilepsy Research Centre and Australia Fellow, Department of
Medicine (Austin Health/Northern Health)

The University of Melbourne

Genetic advances have revolutionized our understanding of many diseases. 
In certain areas, genetics is now having a major impact on routine 
medical care. A private citizen can now commercially obtain a sampling 
of their genome for about $1,000.

Such testing will provide data about racial origin and claims to provide 
information about personal risk for common diseases such as diabetes, 
certain cancers, etc.

The importance to the individual of finding major genetic changes that 
cause disease, versus subtle genetic variations that affect disease 
risk, differs. In this lecture these differences will be explored and 
the questions asked: How reliable is this information? Do we want to 
know it?

6:30 - 7:30 pm
Monday 18 August 2008
Theatre A, Elisabeth Murdoch Building
The University of Melbourne

(Melways reference: Map 2B E7)


RSVP and further information:
dvc-research at unimelb.edu.au
(03) 8344 3238

Admission is Free