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Mersedeh Rohanizadegan, MD, MPH

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Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Translational Medicine and Human Genetics)
Site director for Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance , TSC clinic at Penn medicine
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:
MD (Medicine)
Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 2009.
MPH (Public Health)
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

Demarest K, Anantharajah A, Maxwell KN, Rohanizadegan M, Bradbury A, Nathanson KL, McCarthy AM, Domchek SM, Nayak A, Shah PD: Pathogenic Germline Variants in Patients With Metaplastic Breast Cancer. JAMA Network Open Feb 2025.

Kara K Landry , Michael J DeSarno, Lindsay Kipnis, Farid Barquet Ramos, Katelyn M Breen, Kaleigh Patton, Audrey Morrissette, Ryan M Buehler, Chinedu Ukaegbu, Mersedeh Rohanizadegan, Matthew B Yurgelun, Sapna Syngal, Huma Q Rana, Judy E Garber: Prevalence and Distribution of Unexpected Actionable Germline Pathogenic Variants Identified on Broad-Based Multigene Panel Testing Among Patients With Cancer. JCO Precision Oncology Dec 2024.

Bert Callewaert, Eva Vanbelleghem, Tim Van Damme, Aude Beyens, Sofie Symoens, Kathleen Claes, Julie De Backer, Ilse Meerschaut, Floris Vanommeslaeghe, Sighurd Delanghe, Jenneke Van den Ende, Tessi Beyltjens, Eleanor Scimone, Mark Lindsay, Lisa Schimmenti, Alicia Hinze, Emily Dunn, Natalia Gomez-Ospina, Isabelle Vandernoot, Thomas Delguste, Sandra Coppens, Valérie Cormier-Daire, Marco Tartaglia, Livia Garavelli, Joseph Shieh, Senol Demir, Esra Arslan Ateş, Martin Zenker, Mersedeh Rohanizadegan, Greysha Rivera-Cruz, Sofia Douzgou Houge, Myhre Syndrome Foundation, and Angela Lin: Myhre syndrome in adulthood: clinical variability and emerging genotype-phenotype correlations. European Journal of Medical Genetics Jul 2024.

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.

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