Prof. Cynthia Casson Morton PH.D.
Geneticist | Ph.D. Medical Genetics
75 Francis St Cytogenetics, Amory Boston MA, 02115About
Dr. Cynthia Morton practices Genetic Medicine in Boston, MA. As a geneticist, Dr. Morton 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. Morton carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Psoriasin expression in mammary epithelial cells in vitro and in vivo.
- The sequence, expression, and chromosomal localization of a novel polycystic kidney disease 1-like gene, PKD1L1, in human.
- Genetics, genomics and gene discovery in the auditory system.
- Vascular defects and sensorineural deafness in a mouse model of Norrie disease.
- Continuing to break the sound barrier: genes in hearing.
- Gene discovery in the auditory system: characterization of additional cochlear-expressed sequences.
- Unrepaired DNA breaks in p53-deficient cells lead to oncogenic gene amplification subsequent to translocations.
- Multicolor karyotypic interpretation of a heterochromatin-associated marker chromosome in a dysmorphic girl with developmental delay.
- PCOLCE deletion and expression analyses in uterine leiomyomata.
- 1q42 approximately q44 is rarely cytogenetically involved in sporadic uterine leiomyomata.
- Intravenous leiomyomatosis is characterized by a der(14)t(12;14)(q15;q24).
- Fusion transcripts involving HMGA2 are not a common molecular mechanism in uterine leiomyomata with rearrangements in 12q15.
- Heparin inhibits the motility and proliferation of human myometrial and leiomyoma smooth muscle cells.
- HMGA2 expression in uterine leiomyomata and myometrium: quantitative analysis and tissue culture studies.
- A neural survival factor is a candidate oncogene in breast cancer.
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