Miao He, Ph.D

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Adjunct Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Co-Laboratory Director, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

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The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
34th & Civic Center Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Education:
B.Sc. (Biochemistry)
Shanghai University of Science and Technology, 1993.
Ph.D. (Genetics)
University of Leeds, 1999.
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Description of Clinical Expertise

1. Diagnoses of congenital disorders of glycosylation by complexed carbohydrate analysis

2. Genetic disorders in mitochondrial beta oxidation of fatty acids

3. Genetic disorders in cholesterol biogenesis

4. New biomarkers for lysosomal storage conditions

Description of Research Expertise

1. New genetic disorders in cholesterol biogenesis and the roles of sterols in overproliferative inflammatory skin disorders

2. Glycomic biomarkers for inherited metabolic diseases

Selected Publications

Wongkittichote P, Hong X, Master SR, Kaur S, Cuddapah SR, He M.: 2-Methylglutaconic acid as a biomarker in routine urine organic acids leading to the diagnosis of glutaric acidemia type I in a low excretor. Mol Genet Metab April 2023.

Tahata S, Weckwerth J, Ligezka A, He M, Lee HE, Heimbach J, Ibrahim SH, Kozicz T, Furuya K, Morava E.: Liver transplantation recovers hepatic N-glycosylation with persistent IgG glycosylation abnormalities: Three-year follow-up in a patient with phosphomannomutase-2-congenital disorder of glycosylation. Mol Genet Metab April 2023.

Alharbi H, Daniel EJP, Thies J, Chang I, Goldner DL, Ng BG, Witters P, Aqul A, Velez-Bartolomei F, Enns GM, Hsu E, Kichula E, Lee E, Lourenco C, Poskanzer SA, Rasmussen S, Saarela K, Wang YM, Raymond KM, Schultz MJ, Freeze HH, Lam C, Edmondson AC, He M.: Fractionated plasma N-glycan profiling of novel cohort of ATP6AP1-CDG subjects identifies phenotypic association. J Inherit Metab Dis Jan 2023.

Elsharkawi I, Wongkittichote P, Daniel EJP, Starosta RT, Ueda K, Ng BG, Freeze HH, He M, Shinawi M.: DDOST-CDG: Clinical and molecular characterization of a third patient with a milder and a predominantly movement disorder phenotype. J Inherit Metab Dis Jan 2023.

Mahajan S, Ng BG, AlAbdi L, Earnest PDJ, Sosicka P, Patel N, Helaby R, Abdulwahab F, He M, Alkuraya FS, Freeze HH.: Homozygous truncating variant in MAN2A2 causes a novel congenital disorder of glycosylation with neurological involvement. J Med Genet Nov 2022.

Xia ZJ, Mahajan S, Paul Daniel EJ, Ng BG, Saraswat M, Campos AR, Murad R, He M, Freeze HH.: COG4 mutation in Saul-Wilson syndrome selectively affects secretion of proteins involved in chondrogenesis in chondrocyte-like cells. Front Cell Dev Biol 10: 979096, Oct 2022.

Miao He, Earnest James PD, Andrew C. Edmondson, Eva Morava, Hudson H. Freeze: Decipher N-linked glycosylation changes in the plasma from CDG patients. JIMD Oct 2022 Notes: Platform presentation at ICIEM meeting 2022.

Albokhari D, Ng BG, Guberinic A, Daniel EJP, Engelhardt NM, Barone R, Fiumara A, Garavelli L, Trimarchi G, Wolfe L, Raymond KM, Morava E, He M, Freeze HH, Lam C, Edmondson AC.: ALG8-CDG: Molecular and phenotypic expansion suggests clinical management guidelines. J Inherit Metab Dis sept 2022.

Hong X, Alharbi H, Albokhari D, Edmondson AC, He M.: A 6-Month-Old Infant with Severe Failure to Thrive during COVID-19 Pandemic. Clin Chem 68: 987-989, Jul 2022.

Shimada S, Ng BG, White AL, Nickander KK, Turgeon C, Liedtke KL, Lam CT, Font-Montgomery E, Lourenco CM, He M, Peck DS, Umana LA, Uhles CL, Haynes D, Wheeler PG, Bamshad MJ, Nickerson DA, Cushing T, Gates R, Gomez-Ospina N, Byers HM; UW Center for Mendelian Genomics; Scalco FB, Martinez NN, Sachdev R, Smith L, Poduri A, Malone S, Harris RV, Scheffer IE, Rosenzweig SD, Adams DR, Gahl WA, Malicdan MCV, Raymond KM, Freeze HH, Wolfe LA.: Clinical, biochemical and genetic characteristics of MOGS-CDG: a rare congenital disorder of glycosylation. J Med Genet Jul 2022.

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