Genetics & Heredity

People with expertise in this area
Research interests

Cristina Bombieri: Associate Professor
Maria Macarena Gomez: Research Assistants
Giovanni Malerba: Associate Professor
Monica Mottes: Full Professor

Antonella Sangalli: Assistant Professor
Elisabetta Trabetti: Associate Professor
Alberto Turco: Associate Professor

Research interests
Topic	People	Description
Genetic counseling.	Alberto Turco	Genetic counseling in simple and multifactorial mendelian transmission diseases. Oncological genetic counseling in families at risk for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer.
Genetics of complex diseases	Giovanni Malerba Elisabetta Trabetti	Genetic susceptibility to complex diseases, by candidate gene, genome-wide and differential gene expression analyses, also by means of NGS techniques
Genetics of Cystic Fibrosis and of Respiratory Diseases	Cristina Bombieri	Investigation on genetic factors involved in development, progression and/or severity of Cystic Fibrosis and related disorders, Asthma, Baker Occupational Asthma, Bronchiectasis, COPD, Rhinitis.
Molecular and medical genetics	Maria Macarena Gomez	Association of genetic variants to the predisposition to complex diseases;disease biomarkers, functional studies of gene expression.
Molecular and medical genetics	Maria Macarena Gomez	Association of genetic variants to the predisposition to complex diseases;disease biomarkers, functional studies of gene expression.
Molecular Medical Genetics	Maria Macarena Gomez	ssociazione di varianti geniche alla predisposizione a malattie complesse; espressione genica e di microRNAs come biomarcatori di malattia, studi funzionali di regioni regolatrici della espressione genica.
Molecular Medical Genetics	Maria Macarena Gomez	ssociazione di varianti geniche alla predisposizione a malattie complesse; espressione genica e di microRNAs come biomarcatori di malattia, studi funzionali di regioni regolatrici della espressione genica.
Molecular genetics	Antonella Sangalli	Linkage and association studies in simple Mendelian and complex genetic diseases. Identification of mutations in simple genetic diseases. Studies of genetic predisposition to skin melanoma. Analysis of gene expression.
Human molecular genetics	Monica Mottes	Genetic basis of inherited connective tissue disorders, especially Osteogenesis Imperfecta