Dr. Stuart K. Shapira MD, PHD
Geneticist | Clinical Genetics (M.D.)
1600 Clifton Rd. , Mailstop E-87 Atlanta GA, 30333About
Dr. Stuart Shapira practices Genetic Medicine in Atlanta, GA. As a geneticist, Dr. Shapira 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. Shapira carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Normal expression of the Fanconi anemia proteins FAA and FAC and sensitivity to mitomycin C in two patients with Seckel syndrome.
- Monosomy 1p36.
- Molecular and clinical characterization of a patient with duplication of 1p36.3 and metopic synostosis.
- Loss of the potassium channel beta-subunit gene, KCNAB2, is associated with epilepsy in patients with 1p36 deletion syndrome.
- Enzyme replacement therapy in late-onset Pompe's disease: a three-year follow-up.
- Genetic risks to the mother and the infant: assessment, counseling, and management.
- Eight years experience with enzyme replacement therapy in two children and one adult with Pompe disease.
- Maternal vasoactive exposures, amniotic bands, and terminal transverse limb defects.
- Long-term speech and language developmental issues among children with Duarte galactosemia.
- Prevalence of developmental disabilities and receipt of special education services among children with an inborn error of metabolism.
- Association of paternal age and risk for major congenital anomalies from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997 to 2004.
- Future research directions to identify causes of the increasing incidence rate of congenital hypothyroidism in the United States.
- Use of special education services among children with and without congenital gastrointestinal anomalies.
- Letter to the editor: Ventricular septal defects and the National Birth Defects Prevention Study.
- Evaluation of immunization rates and safety among children with inborn errors of metabolism.
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