Cor Vasa 2007, 49(5):196-201 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2007.070

Genetics in cardiology. Part I. The history and evolution of modern genetics

Ilga Grochová1, Ladislav Groch2
1 Genprogress s. r. o. Brno, Centrum prenatální diagnostiky s. r. o
2 I. interní-kardioangiologická klinika, Fakultní nemocnice u sv. Anny, Brno, Česká republika

As a specialty, current medical genetics began to evolve in the 1940s to 1950s. The paper provides an overview of the milestones in genetics: discovery of DNA as the carrier of genetic information, uncovering of the DNA structure, protein synthesis encoding, complete identification of genes in the human genome, the HapMap project, ENCODE program, GEI project, and GAIN project. In the second part of the paper, the authors explain the role played currently by genetics in the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of cardiac disease. The topics of future articles addressing medical genetics are given.

Keywords: Medical genetics; Genome; HGP; HapMap; DNA

Published: May 1, 2007  Show citation

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