Dr. William B Rizzo MD
Geneticist | Clinical Genetics (M.D.)
988095 Nebraska Medical Ctr Omaha NE, 68198About
Dr. William Rizzo practices Genetic Medicine in Omaha, NE. As a geneticist, Dr. Rizzo 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. Rizzo carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
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DermatologyAmerican Board of DermatologyABD
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Sjögren-Larsson syndrome: explaining the skin-brain connection.
- Proton MR spectroscopy of Sjögren-Larsson's syndrome.
- The molecular basis of Sjögren-Larsson syndrome: mutation analysis of the fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase gene.
- Peroxisome 1, 2, 3...
- [Sjögren-Larsson syndrome].
- Sjögren-Larsson syndrome: accumulation of free fatty alcohols in cultured fibroblasts and plasma.
- Genomic organization, expression, and alternate splicing of the mouse fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase gene.
- Microsomal fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase catalyzes the oxidation of aliphatic aldehyde derived from ether glycerolipid catabolism: implications for Sjögren-Larsson syndrome.
- Effects of fructose and troglitazone on phospholipid fatty acid composition in rat skeletal muscle.
- Fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase: genomic structure, expression and mutation analysis in Sjögren-Larsson syndrome.
- Unusual clinical presentation in two cases of multiple sulfatase deficiency.
- Diagnosis of inborn errors of phytanic acid oxidation using tritiated phytanic acid.
- Sjögren-Larsson-like syndrome with bone dysplasia and normal fatty alcohol NAD+ oxidoreductase activity.
- Sjögren-Larsson syndrome: seven novel mutations in the fatty aldehyde dehydrogenase gene ALDH3A2.
- Mutants in a macrophage-like cell line are defective in plasmalogen biosynthesis, but contain functional peroxisomes.
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