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Mersedeh Rohanizadegan, MD, MPH

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Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Translational Medicine and Human Genetics)
Department: Medicine

Contact information
Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St
5 Silverstein-Medical Genetics, room S05105
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-662-7527
Fax: 215-614-0298
Education:
MPH (Public Health)
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 2009.
MD (Medicine)
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 2009.
Post-Graduate Training
Research Assistant Genetics, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 2010-2012.
Resident Internal Medicine , Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx, NY, 2012-2015.
Clinical Fellow Medical Genetics, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, 2015-2018.
Certifications
Certification, American Board of Internal Medicine, 2015.
Certification, American Board of Medical Genetics, 2019.
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Selected Publications

Spisak S, Tisza V, Nuzzo PV, Seo JH, Pataki B, Ribli D, Sztupinszki Z, Bell C, Rohanizadegan M, Stillman DR, Alaiwi SA, Bartels AB, Papp M, Shetty A, Abbasi F, Lin X, Lawrenson K, Gayther SA, Pomerantz M, Baca S, Solymosi N, Csabai I, Szallasi Z, Gusev A, Freedman ML.: A biallelic multiple nucleotide length polymorphism explains functional causality at 5p15.33 prostate cancer risk locus. Nat Commun 14: 5118, Aug 2023.

Rohanizadegan M, Stokes S, Schneider KA, George S, Merriam P, Garber JE: Landscape of germline pathogenic variants in cancer susceptibility genes in patients with sarcoma. American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) annual meeting, Hybrid Mar 2022 Notes: Oral Presentation.

Rohanizadegan M, Kipnis L, Stokes S, Bychkovsky BL, Scheib RG, Rana HQ, Garber JE : Casting a Wide Net: Finding actionable results in non-breast cancer genes on multi-gene panel testing in a breast cancer cohort. American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting, Virtual Oct 2021 Notes: Poster.

Rohanizadegan M, Tracy S, Galarreta CI, Poorvu T, Buchmiller TL, Bird LM, Estroff JA, Tan WH: Genetic diagnoses and associated anomalies in fetuses prenatally diagnosed with esophageal atresia. Am J Med Genet A 182(8): 1890-1895, Aug 2020.

Rohanizadegan M, Siddharath A, Retterer K, Hung C, Bodamer O: The tale of two genes: from next-generation sequencing to phenotype. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud 6(2): a004846, Apr 2020.

Bowler TG, Pradhan K, Kong Y, Bartenstein M, Morrone KA, Sridharan A, Kessel RM, Shastri A, Giricz O, Bhagat TD, Gordon-Mitchell S, Rohanizadegan M, Hooda L, Datt I, Przychodzen BP, Parmar S, Maqbool S, Maciejewski JP, Steidl U, Greally JM, Verma A: Misidentification of MLL3 and other mutations in cancer due to highly homologous genomic regions. Leuk Lymphoma 60(13): 3132-3137, Dec 2019.

Steers NJ, Li Y, Drace Z, D'Addario JA, Fischman C, Liu L, Xu K, Na YJ, Neugut YD, Zhang JY, Sterken R, Balderes O, Bradbury D, Ozturk N, Ozay F, Goswami S, Mehl K, Wold J, Jelloul FZ, Rohanizadegan M, Gillies CE, Vasilescu EM, Vlad G, Ko YA, Mohan S, Radhakrishnan J, Cohen DJ, Ratner LE, Scolari F, Susztak K, Sampson MG, Deaglio S, Caliskan Y, Barasch J, Courtney AE, Maxwell AP, McKnight AJ, Ionita-Laza I, Bakker SJL, Snieder H, de Borst MH, D'Agati V, Amoroso A, Gharavi AG, Kiryluk K.: Genomic Mismatch at LIMS1 Locus and Kidney Allograft Rejection. N Engl J Med 380(20): 1918-1928, May 2019.

Rohanizadegan M, Kulkarni S: Transformational role of liquid biopsy in diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Cancer Genet 228-229: 129-130, Dec 2018.

Rohanizadegan M: Analysis of circulating tumor DNA in breast cancer as a diagnostic and prognostic biomarker. Cancer Genet 228-229: 159-168, Dec 2018.

Jones KL, McNamara EA, Longoni M, Miller DE, Rohanizadegan M, Newman LA, Hayes F, Levitsky LL, Herrington BL, Lin AE: Dual diagnoses in 152 patients with Turner syndrome: Knowledge of the second condition may lead to modification of treatment and/or surveillance. Am J Med Genet A 176(11): 2435-2445, Nov 2018.

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