City-Wide Medical Grand Rounds - A. Dunaif: Genes and environment in the pathogenesis of PCOS

Presented by:
Andrea Dunaif, MD
Charles F. Kettering Professor of Medicine and Chief,
Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine,
Center Director, Center for Clinical Research
Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
Chicago, IL

Location:
Baycrest
Telehealth Boardroom

Learning Objectives:
At the end of this presentation, participants should be able to:

• Recognize that PCOS is a non-mendelian, complex genetic disorder
• Identify reproductive phenotypes in male as well as female first-degree relatives
• Identify disease susceptibility locus
• Define genotype-phenotype associations
• Examine hypotheses for pathogenesis of PCOS