Dr. Gail E Herman MD
Geneticist | Clinical Genetics (M.D.)
555 S 18th St Columbus OH, 43205About
Dr. Gail Herman practices Genetic Medicine in Columbus, OH. As a geneticist, Dr. Herman 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. Herman carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
Education and Training
Duke University School of Medicine 1980
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- Exclusion of mutations in the MTMR1 gene as a frequent cause of X-linked myotubular myopathy.
- Mouse models of human disease: lessons learned and promises to come.
- exma: an X-linked insertional mutation that disrupts forebrain and eye development.
- Disorders of cholesterol biosynthesis: prototypic metabolic malformation syndromes.
- Left-sided CHILD syndrome caused by a nonsense mutation in the NSDHL gene.
- NSDHL, an enzyme involved in cholesterol biosynthesis, traffics through the Golgi and accumulates on ER membranes and on the surface of lipid droplets.
- Identification of two novel mutations in the murine Nsdhl sterol dehydrogenase gene and development of a functional complementation assay in yeast.
- Placental defects are associated with male lethality in bare patches and striated embryos deficient in the NAD(P)H Steroid Dehydrogenase-like (NSDHL) Enzyme.
- Changes in gene expression associated with loss of function of the NSDHL sterol dehydrogenase in mouse embryonic fibroblasts.
- Pbx1 and Meis1 regulate activity of the Xenopus laevis Zic3 promoter through a highly conserved region.
- Analysis of Nsdhl-deficient embryos reveals a role for Hedgehog signaling in early placental development.
- Increasing knowledge of PTEN germline mutations: Two additional patients with autism and macrocephaly.
- Genetic testing in autism: how much is enough?
- The prevalence of PTEN mutations in a clinical pediatric cohort with autism spectrum disorders, developmental delay, and macrocephaly.
- Developmental expression pattern of the cholesterogenic enzyme NSDHL and negative selection of NSDHL-deficient cells in the heterozygous Bpa(1H)/+ mouse.
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