Dr. N. Carolyn Schanen MD
Geneticist | Clinical Genetics (M.D.)
1600 Rockland Road Wilmington DE, 19803About
Dr. N. Schanen practices Genetic Medicine in Wilmington, DE. As a geneticist, Dr. Schanen 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. Schanen carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
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Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Identification of a new polymorphism in the 3'-untranslated region of the human serotonin receptor 2C (5-HT2C) gene.
- Rett syndrome and beyond: recurrent spontaneous and familial MECP2 mutations at CpG hotspots.
- Molecular approaches to the Rett syndrome gene.
- Branchial cleft anomaly, congenital heart disease, and biliary atresia: Goldenhar complex or Lambert syndrome?
- Congenital thrombocytopenia and radio-ulnar synostosis: a new familial syndrome.
- Rett syndrome: clinical manifestations in males with MECP2 mutations.
- Rett syndrome in a 47,XXX patient with a de novo MECP2 mutation.
- Isolation and characterization of microtubule-associated protein 2 (MAP2) kinase from rat brain.
- Supernumerary tricentric derivative chromosome 15 in two boys with intractable epilepsy: another mechanism for partial hexasomy.
- High-resolution molecular characterization of 15q11-q13 rearrangements by array comparative genomic hybridization (array CGH) with detection of gene dosage.
- Frasier syndrome comes full circle: genetic studies performed in an original patient.
- Does genotype predict phenotype in Rett syndrome?
- Genomic and functional profiling of duplicated chromosome 15 cell lines reveal regulatory alterations in UBE3A-associated ubiquitin-proteasome pathway processes.
- Epigenetics of autism spectrum disorders.
- Pathophysiological mechanisms for actions of the neurotrophins.
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Practice At 1600 Rockland Road
1600 Rockland Road -Wilmington, DE 19803Get Direction
Practice At A. I. Dupont Hospital For Children 1600 Rockland Road
A. I. Dupont Hospital For Children 1600 Rockland Road -Wilmington, DE 19803Get Direction
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