Dr. Thomas Robert Breen M.D.
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
6801 BRECKSVILLE RD INDEPENDENCE OH, 44131Rating
5/5
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Dr. Thomas Breen practices Geriatric Medicine in Akron, OH. Geriatricians prevent, manage, and develop care plans that address the special health problems of the elderly. Dr. Breen works as part of a team with other healthcare providers, to address the natural aging that goes on within the body and to manage multiple medical problems and ensure social support.
Education and Training
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 2005
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM- Geriatric Medicine
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Mutant alleles of the Drosophila trithorax gene produce common and unusual homeotic and other developmental phenotypes.
- SIR2 is required for polycomb silencing and is associated with an E(Z) histone methyltransferase complex.
- Molecular characterization of the trithorax gene, a positive regulator of homeotic gene expression in Drosophila.
- Analysis of the dosage compensation of a specific transcript in Drosophila melanogaster.
- Trithorax is required to maintain engrailed expression in a subset of engrailed-expressing cells.
- Trithorax regulates multiple homeotic genes in the bithorax and Antennapedia complexes and exerts different tissue-specific, parasegment-specific and promoter-specific effects on each.
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Practice At 75 Arch St Suite G2
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