Dr. Janey L Wiggs MD
Ophthalmologist
243 Charles St Massachusetts Eye An Boston MA, 02114About
Dr. Janey Wiggs is an ophthalmologist practicing in Boston, MA. Dr. Wiggs specializes in eye and vision care. As an ophthalmologist, Dr. Wiggs can practice medicine as well as surgery. Opthalmologists can perform surgeries because they have their medical degrees along with at least eight years of additional training. Dr. Wiggs can diagnose and treat diseases, perform eye operations and prescribe eye glasses and contacts. Ophthalmologists can also specialize even further in a specific area of eye care.
Education and Training
Harvard Medical School 1984
Board Certification
Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
OphthalmologyAmerican Board of OphthalmologyABO
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Complex disorders in ophthalmology.
- Role of genetic factors in the etiology of juvenile-onset myopia based on a longitudinal study of refractive error.
- Molecular and clinical characterization of a patient with a chromosome 4p deletion, Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, and congenital glaucoma.
- Molecular and clinical evaluation of a patient hemizygous for TIGR/MYOC.
- The Human Genome Project and eye disease: clinical implications.
- Mutations in genes encoding melanosomal proteins cause pigmentary glaucoma in DBA/2J mice.
- Altered promoter selection by a novel form of Bacillus subtilis RNA polymerase.
- Altered promoter selection by a novel form of Bacillus subtilis RNA polymerase.
- DNA sequence variants in the tyrosinase-related protein 1 (TYRP1) gene are not
- Lack of association of mutations in optineurin with disease in patients with adult-onset primary open-angle glaucoma.
- Founder mutations of CYP1B1 gene in patients with congenital glaucoma from the United States and Brazil.
- A genomewide scan identifies novel early-onset primary open-angle glaucoma loci on 9q22 and 20p12.
- Genes associated with human glaucoma.
- Complement factor H and macular degeneration: the genome yields an important clue.
- Distribution of WDR36 DNA sequence variants in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma.
Treatments
- Glaucoma
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