Dr. Sean Everett Hofherr PH.D.
Geneticist | Clinical Biochemical Genetics
111 Michigan Ave Nw Laboratory Medicine Washington DC, 20010About
Dr. Sean Hofherr practices Genetic Medicine in Washington, DC. As a geneticist, Dr. Hofherr 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. Hofherr carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
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Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Adenovirus serotype 5 hexon is critical for virus infection of hepatocytes in vivo.
- Systemic delivery of therapeutic viruses.
- Rescue, amplification, purification, and PEGylation of replication defective first-generation adenoviral vectors.
- Systematic ranking of inborn errors of metabolism as targets for gene therapy.
- Clinical diagnostic testing for the cytogenetic and molecular causes of male infertility: the Mayo Clinic experience.
- Hereditary fructose intolerance mimicking a biochemical phenotype of mucolipidosis: A review of the literature of secondary causes of lysosomal enzyme activity elevation in serum.
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