Dr. Hatem I El-shanti MD
Geneticist | Clinical Genetics (M.D.)
200 Hawkins Dr Iowa City IA, 52242About
Dr. Hatem El-shanti practices Genetic Medicine in Iowa City, IA. As a geneticist, Dr. El-shanti 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. El-shanti carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
Education and Training
University Of Cairo, University Of Cairo, Faculty Of Medicine MD
University Of Cairo Faculty Of Medicine 1983
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Linkage analysis of a large inbred family with congenital megaloblastic anemia.
- Familial Mediterranean fever mutation frequencies and carrier rates among a mixed Arabic population.
- Consanguinity: implications for practice, research, and policy.
- Familial mediterranean Fever and renal disease.
- Autoinflammatory bone disorders.
- Neutrophil dysfunction in a family with a SAPHO syndrome-like phenotype.
- A homozygous mutation in human PRICKLE1 causes an autosomal-recessive progressive
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