Dr. Virginia V Michels M.D.
Geneticist | Clinical Genetics (M.D.)
200 1st St SW Rochester MN, 55905About
Dr. Virginia Michels practices Genetic Medicine in Rochester, MN. As a geneticist, Dr. Michels performs experiments and analyzes data to interpret the inheritance of different traits in patients. A geneticist evaluates, diagnoses, and manages patients with hereditary conditions or congenital malformations, genetic risk calculations, and mutation analysis. Dr. Michels carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
Education and Training
Med Coll of Wi, Milwaukee Wi 1974
WISCONSIN COLL OF PHYS AD SURG 1974
Board Certification
Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Supravalvular aortic stenosis: a splice site mutation within the elastin gene results in reduced expression of two aberrantly spliced transcripts.
- Refined gene localization for MRX7.
- Severe hypoglycemia as a presenting symptom of carbohydrate-deficient glycoprotein syndrome.
- von Hippel-Lindau disease.
- The genomic organization of human dystrobrevin.
- Isolated supravalvular aortic stenosis: functional haploinsufficiency of the elastin gene as a result of nonsense-mediated decay.
- Mutations that alter the surface charge of alpha-tropomyosin are associated with dilated cardiomyopathy.
- Novel mutations and the emergence of a common mutation in the SDHD gene causing
- Characteristics of two cases with dup(15)(q11.2-q12): one of maternal and one of paternal origin.
- The frequency of hereditary defective mismatch repair in a prospective series of unselected colorectal carcinomas.
- Pheochromocytomas and paragangliomas in von Hippel-Lindau disease: a role for laparoscopic and cortical-sparing surgery.
- Utility of subtelomeric fluorescent DNA probes for detection of chromosome anomalies in 425 patients.
- Progression of familial and non-familial dilated cardiomyopathy: long term follow
- Risk of hepatoblastoma in familial adenomatous polyposis.
- Xp22.3 microdeletion syndrome with microphthalmia, sclerocornea, linear skin defects, and congenital heart defects.
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