Dr. Ronald D Blackston MD
Geneticist | Clinical Genetics (M.D.)
2165 N Decatur Rd Decatur GA, 30033About
Dr. Ronald Blackston practices Genetic Medicine in Decatur, GA. As a geneticist, Dr. Blackston 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. Blackston carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
Education and Training
Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine 1962
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Parental mosaicism as a cause of Down syndrome. A report of 46,XX/46,XX,--21,+t(21q21q1 mother and 46,XY,+21,+t(21q21q) child.
- Parental mosaicism as a cause of Down syndrome. A report of 46,XX/46,XX,--21,+t(21q21q1 mother and 46,XY,+21,+t(21q21q) child.
- Trisomy 21: association between reduced recombination and nondisjunction.
- Nondisjunction of chromosome 21.
- Predicting the response of growth hormone-deficient children to long term treatment with human growth hormone.
- Predicting the response of growth hormone-deficient children to long term treatment with human growth hormone.
- The cardiovascular abnormalities associated with duplicated segments of chromosome 7.
- Serum and urine polyamines in normal and in short children.
- Serum and urine polyamines in normal and in short children.
- A case of 48,XXXX female with normal intelligence.
- Asplenia syndrome in a child with a balanced reciprocal translocation of
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