Disease & Genetic Disorders

Citing Sources & Research

• Academic Integrity (Citing Sources)   & Research Skills 

Databases -TDSB Virtual Library

• • Science Reference Center

  • Advance Placement (AP) Source

  • Explora - Secondary

  • Encyclopedia Britannica (Human Genetic Disease)

Open access Databases

• Diseases (an international peer-reviewed open access, multidisciplinary journal which focuses on the latest  research on diseases and conditions)

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

• JAMA Open Network (peer-reviewed general medical journal)

Film, Video & Podcasts

• Podcast:  Genetics Unzipped

• Podcast: Demystifying Genetics

• Film & Podcast: RARE/D RARE/D aims to trigger conversations and debates across society about the implications of developments in rare conditions and genomic medicine.

• Podcast: Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine 

• Podcast: White Coat, Black Art

• Film & Podcast:  The Rare Disease Film Festival | Podcasts

• Video Playlist: TED Talks on Disease

Websites - Genetics & Diseases

• NIH National Library of Medicine (USA)

• The Lancet | Infectious Diseases (not full access)

• Genetic and Rare Disease Information Center

• National Human Genome Research Institute

• Genetic Disorders (John Hopkins Medicine)

•  Rare Genetic Disorders (Nature.com)

• How Genetic Diseases are Inherited

• DNA  From the Beginning

• Human Genome Project Information Archive

Canadian Genetics Research Organizations

• Diseases and Conditions (Govt of Canada)

• Canadian Institute of Genetics (Govt of Canada)

• The Genetics & Genome Biology (GGB) program (SickKids)

• Genome Canada

• Care4Rare Canada

• Front Line Genomics | Canada