Dr. Shweta U Dhar M.D.
Geneticist | Clinical Molecular Genetics
1504 Taub Loop Houston TX, 77030About
Shweta Dhar, MD, MS, FACMG is a board certified Internist and Clinical Geneticist and is the Medical Director for the Adult Genetics Service at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, Texas. She ...
Education and Training
Mun Med Coll, Gujarat Univ, Ahmedabad, Gujarat MD
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Tetrasomy 13q mosaicism associated with phylloid hypomelanosis and precocious puberty.
- Cranio-meta-diaphyseal dysplasia: 25 year follow-up and review of literature.
- Genetic testing and cancer risk management recommendations by physicians for at-risk relatives.
- Enhancing exposure to genetics and genomics through an innovative medical school curriculum.
- POLG mutation in a patient with cataracts, early-onset distal muscle weakness and atrophy, ovarian dysgenesis and 3-methylglutaconic aciduria.
- WDR35 mutation in siblings with Sensenbrenner syndrome: a ciliopathy with variable phenotype.
- The practice of adult genetics: a 7-year experience from a single center.
- Autism genetic testing: a qualitative study of awareness, attitudes, and experiences among parents of children with autism spectrum disorders.
- Common iliac artery aneurysm and spontaneous dissection with contralateral iatrogenic common iliac artery dissection in classic ehlers-danlos syndrome.
- Autism spectrum disorders: a qualitative study of attitudes toward prenatal genetic testing and termination decisions of affected pregnancies.
- Autism spectrum disorders: perceptions of genetic etiology and recurrence risk among Taiwanese parents of affected children.
- Autism genetic testing information needs among parents of affected children: A qualitative study.
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