Dr. Richard J Schroer MD
Geneticist | Clinical Genetics (M.D.)
305 E Cheves St Suite 370 Florence SC, 29506Rating
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Dr. Richard Schroer practices Genetic Medicine in Florence, SC. As a geneticist, Dr. Schroer 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. Schroer carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- X-linked mental retardation syndrome with short stature, small hands and feet, seizures, cleft palate, and glaucoma is linked to Xq28.
- The HOPA gene dodecamer duplication is not a significant etiological factor in autism.
- Lack of association of the (AAAT)6 allele of the GXAlu tetranucleotide repeat in intron 27b of the NF1 gene with autism.
- Longitudinal changes in cognitive and adaptive behavior scores in children and adolescents with the fragile X mutation or autism.
- Absence of MeCP2 mutations in patients from the South Carolina autism project.
- The HOXA1 A218G polymorphism and autism: lack of association in white and black patients from the South Carolina Autism Project.
- Genetic syndromes among individuals with mental retardation.
- Expanded newborn screening identifies maternal primary carnitine deficiency.
- Paracentric inversion of chromosome 19 in three generations.
- Detection of submicroscopic deletions in band 17p13 in patients with the Miller-Dieker syndrome.
- Fragile X syndrome: incidence, clinical and cytogenetic findings in the black and white populations of South Carolina.
- Acquired inhibitor to contact activation in an 18-month-old female.
- Abnormal hair, craniofacial dysmorphism, and severe mental retardation - a new syndrome?
- Sialic acid storage disease with sialuria: clinical and biochemical features in the severe infantile type.
- Aarskog-Scott syndrome: confirmation of linkage to the pericentromeric region of the X chromosome.
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