Dr. Jonathan Alfred Fletcher MD
Geneticist | Clinical Cytogenetic
75 Francis St Brigham And Womens H Boston MA, 02115About
Dr. Jonathan Fletcher practices Genetic Medicine in Boston, MA. As a geneticist, Dr. Fletcher 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. Fletcher carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
Education and Training
Boston University School of Medicine 1981
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Peripheral nerve sheath tumors from patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 do not have the chromosomal translocation t(X;18).
- Biology and genetic aspects of gastrointestinal stromal tumors: KIT activation and cytogenetic alterations.
- Testing for KIT (CD117) in gastrointestinal stromal tumors: another HercepTest?
- Prognostic value of KIT mutation type, mitotic activity, and histologic subtype in gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
- PPARgamma ligands inhibit primary tumor growth and metastasis by inhibiting angiogenesis.
- Testing for KIT (CD117) in gastrointestinal stromal tumors: another HercepTest?
- Molecular genetic characterization of the EWS/CHN and RBP56/CHN fusion genes in extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma.
- Chromogenic in situ hybridization and FISH in pathology.
- Constitutive activation of insulin receptor substrate 1 is a frequent event in human tumors: therapeutic implications.
- CHIPing soft tissue tumors: will the paradigms be changed?
- PDGFRA activating mutations in gastrointestinal stromal tumors.
- BRD4-NUT fusion oncogene: a novel mechanism in aggressive carcinoma.
- Detection by the fluorescence in situ hybridization technique of MYC translocations in paraffin-embedded lymphoma biopsy samples.
- Cloning of an Alpha-TFEB fusion in renal tumors harboring the t(6;11)(p21;q13) chromosome translocation.
- Gonadotropic pituitary carcinoma: HER-2/neu expression and gene amplification. Report of two cases.
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