Dr. Stephen Gerard Kaler M.D.
Geneticist | Clinical Genetics (M.D.)
7806 Glenbrook Rd Bethesda MD, 20814About
Dr. Stephen Kaler practices Genetic Medicine in Bethesda, MD. As a geneticist, Dr. Kaler 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. Kaler carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
Board Certification
Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Menkes disease.
- Metabolic and molecular bases of Menkes disease and occipital horn syndrome.
- Novel method for molecular detection of the two common hereditary hemochromatosis mutations.
- Genotyping of two mutations in the HFE gene using single-base extension and high-performance liquid chromatography.
- Menkes' syndrome: ophthalmic findings.
- Rapid and robust screening of the Menkes disease/occipital horn syndrome gene.
- Genomic organization of ATOX1, a human copper chaperone.
- Mutation in the leucine-rich repeat C-flanking region of platelet glycoprotein Ib beta impairs assembly of von Willebrand factor receptor.
- Downregulation of myelination, energy, and translational genes in Menkes disease
- Copper-replacement treatment for symptomatic Menkes disease: ethical considerations.
- Brachial artery aneurysms in Menkes disease.
- Functional copper transport explains neurologic sparing in occipital horn syndrome.
- Safety of intracerebroventricular copper histidine in adult rats.
- Internal jugular phlebectasia in Menkes disease.
- Differences in ATP7A gene expression underlie intrafamilial variability in Menkes disease/occipital horn syndrome.
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