Chair of Human Genetics, led by Prof. Maris Laan was established at the University of Tartu (UT) in 2003-2004 with the support of Wellcome Trust International Senior Fellowship. Since 2016, the chair is positioned and active at the Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Biomedicine and Translational Medicine. Before, the team was affiliated with the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Faculty of Science and Technology.
Its scientific ‘keywords’ are medical and reproductive genetics, genetics and molecular etiology of infertility and pregnancy complications to be investigated by advanced DNA and RNA sequencing tools, translational research in medicine with the focus on genetics discoveries and novel biomarkers.
Human health starts from the health and integrity of his or her genome
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