Dr. Walter E Nance MD
Geneticist | Clinical Genetics (M.D.)
1250 E Marshall St Human Genetics Richmond VA, 23298About
Dr. Walter Nance practices Genetic Medicine in Richmond, VA. As a geneticist, Dr. Nance 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. Nance carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
Education and Training
Harvard Med Sch, Boston Ma 1958
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Models for the longitudinal genetic analysis of same-age twins: application to HDL cholesterol.
- Familial twinning: a case for superfetation in man.
- Genetic studies of the offspring of identical twins: a model for the analysis of quantitative inheritance in man.
- Implications of molecular diagnostic testing in families with hereditary pancreatitis.
- Heterogenous point mutations in the mitochondrial tRNA Ser(UCN) precursor coexisting with the A1555G mutation in deaf students from Mongolia.
- Mutations in connexin31 underlie recessive as well as dominant non-syndromic hearing loss.
- Myelocystocele-cloacal exstrophy in a pedigree with a mitochondrial 12S rRNA mutation, aminoglycoside-induced deafness, pigmentary disturbances, and spinal anomalies.
- Fine mapping of the human biotinidase gene and haplotype analysis of five common mutations.
- Symposium on sensorineural hearing loss in children: early detection and intervention. Genetic factors in deafness of early life.
- W44C mutation in the connexin 26 gene associated with dominant non-syndromic deafness.
- Epidemiological studies on hearing impairment with reference to genetic factors in Sichuan, China.
- Protecting the privacy of family members in research.
- Connexin 26 (GJB2) mutations in the Turkish population: implications for the origin and high frequency of the 35delG mutation in Caucasians.
- Haplotype analysis of the USH1D locus and genotype-phenotype correlations.
- Waardenburg syndrome type 3 (Klein-Waardenburg syndrome) segregating with a heterozygous deletion in the paired box domain of PAX3: a simple variant or a true syndrome?
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