PATH 5535 - Principles and Applications in Molecular Diagnostics

Develop advanced understanding of scientific principles of molecular biology as applied to molecular diagnostic laboratory testing. Understand the application of molecular diagnostics as a means to assess health and disease including test selection and correlation of laboratory data to pathologic states in areas of genetics, oncology and infectious disease. Learn to assess the quality of performance of molecular testing, abnormal laboratory data, descrepant results and validity of test results.