Stanford genotype class asks: What's your type?

Kathryn Roethel:

When Stanford University School of Medicine became the first medical school in the nation this summer to offer a course to teach students how to interpret genetic tests, the 50 people who signed up to take it were asked to make a controversial choice: whether to study their own genotypes.

The course has proved popular. It has a waiting list for admission - unheard of for a summer class - but it took a yearlong debate before it was introduced.

Its originator, a grad student, said the course was conceived to fill a growing discipline in the field of medicine.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 14, 2010 1:02 AM
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