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                              Majors / Human / Medical Genetics | 
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                                      A program that focuses on the scientific study of human genetics from the standpoint of medical applications such as clinical diagnosis, genetic engineering and therapy, transplantation, and the study of genetic diseases and disabilities and their defense.  Includes instruction in human molecular genetics; genetic factors causing disease; changes in gene expression during development, differentiation, and pathogenesis; recombinant DNA; gene therapy; clinical genetics; genetic epidemiology; immunogenetics; cytogenetics; and genetics of specific disorders and diseases. | 
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                                                      | Bachelor's: | 
                                                      #832 | 
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                                                      | Graduate Certificate: | 
                                                      #430 | 
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                                                      | Master's: | 
                                                      #463 | 
                                                      73 | 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                                      | Doctorate: | 
                                                      #113 | 
                                                      58 | 
                                                     
                                                    
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                                            | The number of students who study the Russian language in U.S. colleges has dropped in half since the end of the Cold War.  Chinese, on the other hand, has doubled. | 
                                           
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