Below are the lectures prepared for the class.  Click on the title of the lecture and it will take you to SlideShare website where you can download the material as pdf.

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Lec 1: General Introduction

Lec 2: Review of genetics

Lec 3: Mendel’s experiments and factors

Lec 4: The genome: genetic material

Lec 5: DNA chemical composition

Lec 6: DNA structure and genetic code

Lec 7: Genomic coding and non-coding

Lec 8: Cells and DNA sources

Lec 9: DNA extraction

Lec 10: DNA Quality and Quantity

Lec 11: PCR

Lec 12: DNA sequencing: Sanger method

Lec 13: Genome assembly & resequencing

Lec 14: Polymorphisms: repeats & SNPs

Lec 15: Genotyping STR

Lec 16: Genotyping SNPs

Lec 17: Bi-allelic vs. multi-allelic markers

Lec 18: STR: Allele/genotype frequencies

Lec 19: SNP: Allele/genotype frequencies

Lec 20: Objective vs. subjective evidence

Lec 21: Panel of molecular markers

Lec 22: Frequency database

Lec 23: Genetic profiling

Lec 24: Probability of match/exclusion

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