Dr. Dianna M Milewicz M.D.
Geneticist | Clinical Genetics (M.D.)
6410 Fannin St 1400 Houston TX, 77030Rating
5/5
About
Dr. Dianna Milewicz practices Genetic Medicine in Houston, TX. As a geneticist, Dr. Milewicz 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. Milewicz carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
Education and Training
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center Southwestern Medical School 1984
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Processing of the fibrillin-1 carboxyl-terminal domain.
- Carboxy-terminal conversion of profibrillin to fibrillin at a basic site by PACE/furin-like activity required for incorporation in the matrix.
- The metacarpophalangeal profile in a family with congenital contractural arachnodactyly.
- Genetic disorders of the elastic fiber system.
- Genetics of cardiovascular disease.
- Characterization of a novel autosomal dominant bleeding disorder in a large kindred from east Texas.
- Sterols in blood of normal and Smith-Lemli-Opitz subjects.
- Familial thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections: genetic heterogeneity with a major locus mapping to 5q13-14.
- FBN1 exon 2 splicing error in a patient with Marfan syndrome.
- Abnormalities in fibrillin 1-containing microfibrils in dermal fibroblast cultures from patients with systemic sclerosis (scleroderma).
- Ten novel FBN2 mutations in congenital contractural arachnodactyly: delineation of the molecular pathogenesis and clinical phenotype.
- Genetic basis of thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections.
- Microcornea and subluxated lenses due to a splicing error in the fibrillin-1 gene in a patient with Marfan syndrome.
- A unique form of hypodontia seen in Vietnamese patients: clinical and molecular
- Mapping a locus for familial thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections (TAAD2) to
Clinical Trials
Treatments
- Birth Defects
- Aneurysm
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Vascular Disease
Fellowships
- University of Washington, Dept of Radiation Oncology 1991
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