Dr. Philip D. Cotter PHD, FACMG
Geneticist | Clinical Molecular Genetics
5810 Nancy Ridge Dr San Diego CA, 92121About
Dr. Philip Cotter practices Genetic Medicine in San Diego, CA. As a geneticist, Dr. Cotter 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. Cotter carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
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Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Identification and disruption of lisRK, a genetic locus encoding a two-component signal transduction system involved in stress tolerance and virulence in Listeria monocytogenes.
- Monosomy 16 as the sole abnormality in myeloid malignancies.
- Mild phenotype in two siblings with distal monosomy 12p13.31-->pter.
- Cardio-facio-cutaneous syndrome phenotype in an individual with an interstitial deletion of 12q: identification of a candidate region for CFC syndrome.
- Candidate region for Coffin-Siris syndrome at 7q32-->34.
- Tetrasomy 15q25-->qter: cytogenetic and molecular characterization of an analphoid supernumerary marker chromosome.
- Telomere-telomere (end to end) fusion of chromosomes 7 and 22 with an interstitial deletion of chromosome 7p11.2-->p15.1: phenotypic consequences and possible mechanisms.
- Analysis of the role of the Listeria monocytogenes F0F1 -AtPase operon in the acid tolerance response.
- Trisomy 4 and double minutes in acute myeloid leukemia: further evidence that double minutes can occur as the primary cytogenetic abnormality.
- Interphase FISH with chromosome-specific protelomere probes for rapid prenatal diagnosis in a reciprocal translocation carrier.
- Prenatal diagnosis and characterization of an unbalanced whole arm translocation resulting in monosomy for 18p.
- A glutamate decarboxylase system protects Listeria monocytogenes in gastric fluid.
- Inherited duplication of Xq27.2-->qter: phenocopy of infantile Prader-Willi syndrome.
- Candidate region for cardio-facio-cutaneous syndrome.
- Loss of subtelomeric sequence associated with a terminal inversion duplication of the short arm of chromosome 4.
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