Objectives:

1. To review the role of monogenic and polygenic factors in contributing to inherited risk for heart attack.

2. To review the extent to which adherence to an optimal lifestyle can counter-balance inherited risk for heart attack. 

3. To review how the study of humans who naturally lack a gene (i.e., 'human knockouts’) can provide insight to health and disease. 

Session date: 
11/09/2018 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm CST
Location: 
UCMC
Chicago, IL 60637
United States
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Participation

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Speaker Name: 
SEKAR KATHIRESAN, MD