Dr. Michael Melvin Kaback MD
Geneticist | Clinical Biochemical Genetics
4347 Vista De La Tierra Del Mar CA, 92014About
Dr. Michael Kaback practices Genetic Medicine in Del Mar, CA. As a geneticist, Dr. Kaback 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. Kaback carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Tay-Sachs screening: motives for participating and knowledge of genetics and probability.
- Tay-Sachs screening: social and psychological impact.
- American Pediatric Society presidential address 1999: The Joy of Academic Pediatrics.
- Population-based genetic screening for reproductive counseling: the Tay-Sachs disease model.
- The "Asilomar process" and the Human Genome Project.
- Human X-autosome translocations: differential inactivation of the X chromosome in a kindred with an X-9 translocation.
- Screening and prevention in Tay-Sachs disease: origins, update, and impact.
- Future perspectives for Tay-Sachs disease.
- Inherited lipid storage diseases of the central nervous system.
- Inherited lipid storage diseases of the central nervous system.
- Diagnosis of skeletal dysplasias in second trimester fetuses.
- Eight novel mutations in the HEXA gene.
- The Turner phenotype associated with unbalanced X/autosome translocation.
- Cri-du-chat and trisomy 13 syndromes in an infant with an unbalanced chromosomal translocation.
- Some influences on public participation in a genetic screening program.
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