Genetic Diseases: Diagnosis and Treatment
  Wednesday, 5 April, 08:15 - 09:30

	Session Organizers: Arend Heerschap and Linda Chang
	Educational Objectives: Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to: Describe the role of imaging methods in general in the diagnosis and treatment evaluation of genetic diseases; Identify MRI and MRS parameters of particular usefulness to characterize inherited metabolic brain diseases; Describe some cases of these diseases where unambiguous diagnosis is possible on the basis of MRI and/or MRS approaches; Explain how the study of transgenic animals with missing or modified proteins may help understand the nature of genetic diseases; Describe the potentials of MR to characterize the phenotype of these animals.
	Program: 08:15 Interfaces of Genetic Diagnosis and Treatment with Imaging Methods Arthur S. Beaudet, Baylor University, Houston, Texas, USA 08:40 MRI/MRS of Genetic Brain Diseases Marjo S. van der Knapp, Free University Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 09:05 The Role of MR in Transgenic Animal Models Alan Koretsky, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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