Dr. Lindsay A Farrer
Geneticist | Ph.D. Medical Genetics
715 Albany St Boston University Sc Boston MA, 02118About
Dr. Lindsay Farrer practices Genetic Medicine in Boston, MA. As a geneticist, Dr. Farrer 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. Farrer carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
Board Certification
Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- An alpha-2-macroglobulin insertion-deletion polymorphism in Alzheimer disease.
- A family history study of male sexual orientation using three independent samples.
- Alpha-2 macroglobulin gene in early- and late-onset Alzheimer disease.
- Power of concordant versus discordant sib pairs at different penetrance levels.
- Stratification techniques to explore genotype environment interactions.
- Familial risk for Alzheimer disease in ethnic minorities: nondiscriminating genes.
- Genetic predisposition to stroke in relatives of hypertensives.
- Association between angiotensin-converting enzyme and Alzheimer disease.
- Head injury and the risk of AD in the MIRAGE study.
- Intercontinental epidemiology of Alzheimer disease: a global approach to bad gene hunting.
- Reliability of information collected by proxy in family studies of Alzheimer's disease.
- Distinguishable effects of presenilin-1 and APP717 mutations on amyloid plaque deposition.
- Maternal component in the familial aggregation of hypertension.
- Mutations in the open reading frame of the beta-site APP cleaving enzyme (BACE) locus are not a common cause of Alzheimer's disease.
- Risk of dementia among white and African American relatives of patients with Alzheimer disease.
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