Dr. Shawn E Mccandless MD
Geneticist | Clinical Genetics (M.D.)
13123 E 16TH AVE AURORA CO, 80045Rating
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Dr. Shawn Mccandless practices Genetic Medicine in Cleveland, OH. As a geneticist, Dr. Mccandless 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. Mccandless carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
Education and Training
Temple University School of Medicine 1988
Board Certification
Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
PediatricsAmerican Board of PediatricsABP
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- A primer on expanded newborn screening by tandem mass spectrometry.
- The Y42H mutation in medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, which is prevalent in babies identified by MS/MS-based newborn screening, is temperature sensitive.
- A clinical report of a patient with two abnormal cell lines: 46,XX,del(21)(q22.1) and 47,XX,+3.
- Mosaicism for an FMR1 gene deletion in a fragile X female.
- McKusick-Kaufman syndrome: the difficulty of establishing a prenatal diagnosis of an uncommon disorder.
- Molecular characterization of a novel, de novo, cryptic interstitial deletion on 19p13.3 in a child with a cutis aplasia and multiple congenital anomalies.
- Clinical report—health supervision for children with Prader-Willi syndrome.
- High prevalence of overweight and obesity in females with phenylketonuria.
- Risk for ingestion of toxic substances in children with Prader-Willi syndrome.
- Design and implementation of the first randomized controlled trial of coenzyme CoQ₁₀ in children with primary mitochondrial diseases.
- Sequencing from dried blood spots in infants with "false positive" newborn screen for MCAD deficiency.
- Ammonia control in children ages 2 months through 5 years with urea cycle disorders: comparison of sodium phenylbutyrate and glycerol phenylbutyrate.
- The perils of SNP microarray testing: uncovering unexpected consanguinity.
- Multiple muscle cell alterations in a case of encephalomyopathy.
- Glycerol phenylbutyrate treatment in children with urea cycle disorders: pooled analysis of short and long-term ammonia control and outcomes.
Clinical Trials
Treatments
- Birth Defects
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Practice At 11100 Euclid Ave
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