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Molecular Genetics

Deborah A. Meyers, PhD

 

Professor, Pediatrics

Section Head, Medical Genetics, Pediatrics

Co-Director, Center for Human Genomics

 

Email: dmeyers@wfubmc.edu

 

Education:

Indiana University School of Medicine, 1976, PhD

 

Dr. Deborah Meyers

Research Interests:

Gene mapping in common complex diseases as well as in Mendelian disorders, ascertainment and characterization of relevant families, DNA genotyping, linkage and association analyses, positional cloning and in analytical methods.

 

Recent Publications:

Smith RS, Meyers DA, Peters SP, Moore WC, Wenzel SA, Bleecker ER, Hawkins GA. Sequence analysis of HSPA1A and HSPA1B in a multi-ethnic study population. DNA Seq. 2007 Feb;18(1):47-53.

 

Moore WC, Bleecker ER, Curran-Everett D, Erzurum SC, Ameredes BT, Bacharier L, Calhoun WJ, Castro M, Chung KF, Clark MP, Dweik RA, Fitzpatrick AM, Gaston B, Hew M, Hussain I, Jarjour NN, Israel E, Levy BD, Murphy JR, Peters SP, Teague WG, Meyers DA, Busse WW, Wenzel SE; National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute's Severe Asthma Research Program. Characterization of the severe asthma phenotype by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Severe Asthma Research Program. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2007 Feb;119(2):405-13.

 

Liu W, Chang B, Li T, Dimitrov L, Kim S, Kim JW, Turner AR, Meyers DA, Trent JM, Zheng SL, Isaacs WB, Xu J. Germline copy number polymorphisms involving larger than 100 kb are uncommon in normal subjects. Prostate. 2007 Feb 15;67(3):227-33.

 

Wenzel SE, Balzar S, Ampleford E, Hawkins GA, Busse WW, Calhoun WJ, Castro M, Chung KF, Erzurum S, Gaston B, Israel E, Teague WG, Curran-Everett D, Meyers DA, Bleecker ER. IL4R alpha mutations are associated with asthma exacerbations and mast cell/IgE expression. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2007 Mar 15;175(6):570-6. Epub 2006 Dec 14.

 

Hawkins GA, Tantisira K, Meyers DA, Ampleford EJ, Klanderman B, Liggett SB, Peters SP, Weiss ST, Bleecker ER. Sequence, Haplotype and Association Analysis of ADR{beta}2 in Multi-Ethnic Asthma Case/Control Subjects. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2006 Aug 24.

 

Publications:
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