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- Chance a Chromosome Abnormality Will Occur Again: Numerical, Structural (Inherited and De Novo), Mosaicism
- Chromosome Abnormalities
- Chromosome Studies: Karyotype, Extended Banding, Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH), and Chromosomal Microarray Analysis
- Genetic Services: When, Where, How
- How Chromosome Abnormalities Happen: Meiosis, Mitosis, Maternal Age, Environment
- Medical Genetics: Overview and Resources
- Medical History and Genetic Testing
- Mosaic Down Syndrome
- Mosaicism
- Multifactorial Inheritance
- Non-Traditional Inheritance
- Numerical Abnormalities: Overview of Trisomies and Monosomies
- Overview of Chromosome Abnormalities
- Overview of Single Gene Defects
- Single Gene Defects
- Structural Abnormalities: Deletions (Cri du Chat) and Duplications (Pallister Killian)
- Studies for Single Gene Defects: DNA (Direct and Indirect)
- Support Groups
- The Difference Between a Chromosome Abnormality and a Single Gene Defect
- The Human Genome Project
- Trinucleotide Repeats: Fragile-X Syndrome
- Types of Chromosome Abnormalities
- Uniparental Disomy: Prader-Willi Syndrome, Angelman Syndrome
- Uses of Genetic Testing
- Vitamin, Gene, and Enzyme Replacement Therapy
- When to Seek Genetic Counseling
- X-linked Agammaglobulinemia
- X-linked Dominant: Incontinentia Pigmenti
- X-linked Recessive: Red-Green Color Blindness, Hemophilia A
Genetics
Our Team
Director, Clinical Genetics
Wendy K. Chung, MD, PhD
Clinical Genetics Staff
- Kwame Anyane-Yeboa, MD
Pediatric Clinical Geneticist
- Jack Maidman, MD
Prenatal Clinical Geneticist
- Ronald Wapner, MD
Pediatric Clinical Geneticist
- Nahla Khalek, MD
Prenatal Clinical Geneticist
- Alfred Slonim, MD
Metabolic Endocrinologist
- Maryam Banikazemi, MD
Metabolic Geneticist
- Aileen Cokai, MD
Clinical Genetics Resident
- Hans Shuhaiber, MD
Clinical Genetics Resident
- Judith Safran
Division Administrator
Genetic Counselors
- Mary Kay Dabney, MS
- Edwin Guzman, MS
- Carrie Koval, MS
- Molly Robinson, MS
- Donna Russo, MS
- Anita Shanmugham, MS
- Ashley Wilson, MS
- Julia Wynn, MS
Newborn Screen Coordinator
- Angela Pena
Administrative Staff
- Josue Martinez
- Ines Vargas
- Xiomara Ventura
