Dr. Cynthia J Tifft MD
Geneticist | Clinical Genetics (M.D.)
111 Michigan Ave NW Washington DC, 20010About
Dr. Cynthia Tifft practices Genetic Medicine in Washington, DC. As a geneticist, Dr. Tifft 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. Tifft carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
Education and Training
University Of Texas Medical School at Houston 1983
Board Certification
Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Radiologic changes in infancy in McKusick cartilage hair hypoplasia.
- Distribution of enzyme-bearing cells in GM2 gangliosidosis mice: regionally specific pattern of cellular infiltration following bone marrow transplantation.
- Microglial activation precedes acute neurodegeneration in Sandhoff disease and is suppressed by bone marrow transplantation.
- Clinical heterogeneity in mitochondrial DNA deletion disorders: a diagnostic challenge of Pearson syndrome.
- Enhanced survival in Sandhoff disease mice receiving a combination of substrate deprivation therapy and bone marrow transplantation.
- Stemming the tide: glycosphingolipid synthesis inhibitors as therapy for storage diseases.
- Molecular pathophysiology in Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff diseases as revealed by gene
- Fraser syndrome and cryptophthalmos: review of the diagnostic criteria and evidence for phenotypic modules in complex malformation syndromes.
- Global gene expression in a type 2 Gaucher disease brain.
- Simultaneous quantification of GM1 and GM2 gangliosides by isotope dilution
- Dysmorphic findings in two cases of abeta/hypobetalipoproteinemia.
- Pharmacokinetics, safety and tolerability of miglustat in the treatment of pediatric patients with GM2 gangliosidosis.
- Synthesis of a human lysosomal enzyme, beta-hexosaminidase B, using the baculovirus expression system.
- GM1 gangliosidosis and Morquio B disease: an update on genetic alterations and clinical findings.
- The NIH Undiagnosed Diseases Program: lessons learned.
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