Dr. Jose C Florez MD PHD
Endocrinology-Diabetes | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
50 Staniford Street Diabetes Unit 3rd Fl Boston MA, 02114Rating
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Dr. Jose Florez practices Endocrinology in Boston, MA. Dr. Florez specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases related to hormone imbalance, and the bodys glands in the endocrine system. Endocrinologists are trained and certified to treat a variety of conditions, including menopause, diabetes, infertility, and thyroid disorders, among many others. Dr. Florez examines patients, determines means of testing, diagnoses, and decides the best treatment methods.
Education and Training
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine 1997
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The inherited basis of diabetes mellitus: implications for the genetic analysis of complex traits.
- Phenotypic consequences of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma Pro12Ala polymorphism: the weight of the evidence in genetic association studies.
- Genetic susceptibility for polycystic ovary syndrome on chromosome 19: advances in the genetic dissection of complex reproductive traits.
- Haplotype structures and large-scale association testing of the 5' AMP-activated protein kinase genes PRKAA2, PRKAB1, and PRKAB2 [corrected] with type 2 diabetes.
- The new type 2 diabetes gene TCF7L2.
- Introduction to genetic association studies.
- The Pro12Ala variant at the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma gene and change in obesity-related traits in the Diabetes Prevention Program.
- Genome-wide association with diabetes-related traits in the Framingham Heart Study.
- A piece of my mind. Knowledge is power.
- Genetic susceptibility to type 2 diabetes and implications for antidiabetic therapy.
- The ENPP1 K121Q polymorphism is associated with type 2 diabetes in European populations: evidence from an updated meta-analysis in 42,042 subjects.
- Contrasting patterns of protein phosphorylation in human normal and Alzheimer brain: focus on protein kinase C and protein F1/GAP-43.
- Haplotype structure of the ENPP1 Gene and Nominal Association of the K121Q missense single nucleotide polymorphism with glycemic traits in the Framingham Heart Study.
- Newly identified loci highlight beta cell dysfunction as a key cause of type 2 diabetes: where are the insulin resistance genes?
- Extension of type 2 diabetes genome-wide association scan results in the diabetes prevention program.
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Treatments
- Diabetes
- Type 2 Diabetes
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