BIO3163 Immunogenetics

The module aims to provide students with fundamental knowledge on first how genetics defines ‘yourself’ to your immune system, second it provides to students how genetic mechanisms such as recombination and point mutation create diversity and specificity of immune effector molecules, and lastly, the module allows an understanding of how genetic variation in certain genes of the immune system can influence susceptibility or resistance to both autoimmune and infectious disease; and how genetics can inform clinical therapies for such disease conditions.