Dr. William Arnold Horton MD
Geneticist | Clinical Molecular Genetics
3101 Sw Sam Jackson Park Road Portland OR, 97239Rating
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Dr. William Horton practices Genetic Medicine in Portland, OR. As a geneticist, Dr. Horton 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. Horton carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
Education and Training
Univ of Ks Sch of Med, Kansas City Ks 1971
University of Wales in Great Britain 1972
Board Certification
Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Y-position collagen II mutation disrupts cartilage formation and skeletal development in a transgenic mouse model of spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia.
- Identification of STAT-1 as a molecular target of IGFBP-3 in the process of chondrogenesis.
- Fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 mutations in achondroplasia and related forms of dwarfism.
- The evolving definition of a chondrodysplasia?
- A novel insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-independent role for IGF binding protein-3 in mesenchymal chondroprogenitor cell apoptosis.
- Skeletal development: insights from targeting the mouse genome.
- Defective lysosomal targeting of activated fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 in achondroplasia.
- Confocal fluorescence spectroscopy of subcutaneous cartilage expressing green fluorescent protein versus cutaneous collagen autofluorescence.
- Targeted expression of SHH affects chondrocyte differentiation, growth plate organization, and Sox9 expression.
- Secretion of cartilage oligomeric matrix protein is affected by the signal peptide.
- Recent milestones in achondroplasia research.
- Effect of IGF-I in the chondrogenesis of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells in the presence or absence of TGF-beta signaling.
- BMP action in skeletogenesis involves attenuation of retinoid signaling.
- Developmental biology in orthopaedics. Summary of the 2006 AAOS research symposium.
Fellowships
- LAC HARBOR GEN HSP, TORRANCE, CA,, Medical Genetics 1975
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