Michael J Bamshad
Geneticist | Clinical Genetics (M.D.)
4800 Sand Point Way Ne Seattle WA, 98105About
Michael J. Bamshad, MD, is professor in the Department of Pediatrics and adjunct professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington. His laboratory addresses the origins and affinities of humans, ...
Education and Training
University of Pennsylvania, PA 1989
Board Certification
Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The distribution of human genetic diversity: a comparison of mitochondrial, autosomal, and Y-chromosome data.
- Patterns of ancestral human diversity: an analysis of Alu-insertion and restriction-site polymorphisms.
- Clinical analysis of families with heart, midline, and laterality defects.
- Population genomics: a bridge from evolutionary history to genetic medicine.
- DNA sequence variation in a 3.7-kb noncoding sequence 5' of the CYP1A2 gene: implications for human population history and natural selection.
- Human population genetic structure and inference of group membership.
- Expressivity of Holt-Oram syndrome is not predicted by TBX5 genotype.
- Comprehensive analysis of Alu-associated diversity on the human sex chromosomes.
- Does race exist?
- Natural selection and molecular evolution in PTC, a bitter-taste receptor gene.
- NIPBL, encoding a homolog of fungal Scc2-type sister chromatid cohesion proteins and fly Nipped-B, is mutated in Cornelia de Lange syndrome.
- Cornelia de Lange syndrome is caused by mutations in NIPBL, the human homolog of Drosophila melanogaster Nipped-B.
- Familial aggregation of juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
- Contrasting effects of natural selection on human and chimpanzee CC chemokine receptor 5.
- Large-scale SNP analysis reveals clustered and continuous patterns of human genetic variation.
Awards
- Bea Fowlow Award in Medical Genetics 2011 University of Calgary
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