Vandana Shrivastava

Human Genetics: Study of Heredity and Genetic Disorders for Medical Sciences. Vandana Shrivastava

Human genetics describes the study of inheritance as it occurs in human beings. Human genetics encompasses a variety of overlapping fields including: classical genetics, cytogenetics, molecular genetics, biochemical genetics, genomics, population genetics, developmental genetics, clinical genetics, and genetic counseling. Genes can be the common factor of the qualities of most human-inherited traits. Study of human genetics can be useful as it can answer questions about human nature, understand the diseases and development of effective disease treatment,and understand genetics of human life. The study of human genetics;for the genetics disorders called Medical genetics. Studies of genetic disorders are often performed by means of family-based studies. Diagnosis and treatment of genetic disorders are usually performed by a geneticist-physician trained in clinical/medical genetics. The results of the Human Genome Project are likely to provide increased availability of genetic testing for gene-related disorders, and eventually improved treatment. Human genetics is the most rapidly expanding area of medicine and, without serious editing, could easily consume the entire medical curriculum.