Dr. Patricia G. Wheeler MD
Geneticist | Clinical Genetics (M.D.)
1717 S Orange Ave Suite 100 Orlando FL, 32806Rating
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About
Dr. Patricia Wheeler practices Genetic Medicine in Orlando, FL. As a geneticist, Dr. Wheeler 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. Wheeler carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
Education and Training
Indiana University School of Medicine 1992
Board Certification
Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The 3C syndrome: evolution of the phenotype and growth hormone deficiency.
- Genetic screening in patients of reproductive age. How do you advise prospective parents who want to know specific risks?
- Hypogonadism and CHARGE association.
- Grebe syndrome in Vietnamese sisters: not Agent Orange.
- Cranial MRI changes may precede symptoms in Hallervorden-Spatz syndrome.
- Partial urorectal septum malformation sequence: a report of 25 cases.
- Proceedings: Patterns of small intestinal permeability and the effect of hypertonic solutions.
- Craniosynostosis and congenital heart anomalies associated with a maternal deletion of 15q15-22.1.
- Simultaneous occurrence of neurofibromatosis type 1 and tuberous sclerosis in a young girl.
- A cause of cholestatic jaundice.
- 8q23-q24 duplication--further delineation of a rare chromosomal abnormality.
- A cause of cholestatic jaundice.
- Novel mutations widen the phenotypic spectrum of slow skeletal/β-cardiac myosin (MYH7) distal myopathy.
- Haploinsufficiency of HDAC4 does not cause intellectual disability in all affected individuals.
- De novo truncating variants in the AHDC1 gene encoding the AT-hook DNA-binding motif-containing protein 1 are associated with intellectual disability and developmental delay.
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