Dr. Karen W. Gripp MD
Geneticist | Clinical Genetics (M.D.)
A. I. Dupont Hospital For Children 1600 Rockland Road Wilmington DE, 19803Rating
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About
Dr. Karen Gripp practices Genetic Medicine in Wilmington, DE. As a geneticist, Dr. Gripp 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. Gripp carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
Education and Training
Univ Hamburg, Krankenhaus Eppendorf, Fak Med, Hamburg 1989
Universitaet Hamburg, Fachbereich Medizin 1989
University of Hamburg / Medical Faculty Medicine
Board Certification
Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Second case of bladder carcinoma in a patient with Costello syndrome.
- Decreased elastin deposition and high proliferation of fibroblasts from Costello syndrome are related to functional deficiency in the 67-kD elastin-binding protein.
- Craniosynostosis: molecular testing-a necessity for counseling.
- Human chromosome 7: DNA sequence and biology.
- Genetics of colorectal cancer.
- 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and selective IgM deficiency: an association of a common chromosomal abnormality with a rare immunodeficiency.
- Adaptive skills, cognitive, and behavioral characteristics of Costello syndrome.
- Filamin A mutations cause periventricular heterotopia with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.
- Observation of a parental inversion variant in a rare Williams-Beuren syndrome
- Tumor predisposition in Costello syndrome.
- Wilms tumor in an 11-year-old with hemihyperplasia.
- Paternal bias in parental origin of HRAS mutations in Costello syndrome.
- Longitudinal assessment of cognitive characteristics in Costello syndrome.
- Costello syndrome and related disorders.
- Clarification of previously reported Costello syndrome patients.
Awards
- 2012 Philadelphia Super Doctors
Treatments
- Nosebleeds
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