A double-sided handout containing most of the notes was given out at the lecture, and it is also available on the Virtual Campus here.

eg: cleft lip and cleft palate, spina bifida, diabetes mellitus, duodenal ulcer, etc..

TYPES OF GENE DISORDERS:

• single mendelian gene disorders (rare)
• chromosome disorders (moderately rare)
• multifactoral inheritance disorders (quite common)