Dr. Howard M Saal M.D.
Geneticist | Clinical Genetics (M.D.)
3333 Burnet Ave Ml 4006 Cincinnati OH, 45229About
Dr. Howard Saal practices Genetic Medicine in Cincinnati, OH. As a geneticist, Dr. Saal 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. Saal carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
Education and Training
Wayne State Univ Sch of Med, Detroit Mi 1979
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- Popliteal pterygium syndrome: a clinical study of three families and report of linkage to the Van der Woude syndrome locus on 1q32.
- Variation in microdeletions of the cyclic AMP-responsive element-binding protein gene at chromosome band 16p13.3 in the Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome.
- Diagnostic analysis of the Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome: five cosmids should be used for microdeletion detection and low number of protein truncating mutations.
- Increased need for medical interventions in infants with velocardiofacial (deletion 22q11) syndrome.
- Guidelines for the design and analysis of studies on nonsyndromic cleft lip and cleft palate in humans: summary report from a Workshop of the International Consortium for Oral Clefts Genetics.
- Prenatal diagnosis: when the clinician disagrees with the patient's decision.
- Oral contraceptives and the risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
- Deletions and microdeletions of 22q11.2 in velo-cardio-facial syndrome.
- New autosomal recessive syndrome of sparse hair, osteopenia, and mental retardation in Mennonite sisters.
- Clinician activism and ethical restraints in providing treatment: preventive as opposed to reconstructive approaches.
- Dilated ascending aorta in a child with ring chromosome 21 syndrome.
- Family communication about positive BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic test results.
- Valproate embryopathy: clinical and cognitive profile in 5 siblings.
- Age at menarche and the risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers.
- Epidemiology of hemimegalencephaly: a case series and review.
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