Lorraine Potocki

Lorraine Potocki (born August 18, 1961) is a medical geneticist and educator at Texas Children's Hospital and is a Professor at Baylor College of Medicine.

Lorraine Potocki
Born
Lorraine Potocki

August 18, 1961 (1961-08-18) (age 59)
Trenton, New Jersey
Alma materBoston University School of Medicine
OccupationGeneticist at Texas Children's Hospital
Board member ofClinical Pathology and Clinical Genetics

She is credited with the discovery of two genetic syndromes, Potocki-Lupski syndrome[1] and Potocki-Shaffer syndrome.

References

  1. Potocki, Lorraine; Chen, KS; Park, SS; Osterholm, DE; Withers, MA; Kimonis, V; Summers, AM; Meschino, WS; et al. (January 2000). "Molecular mechanism for duplication 17p11.2 - the homologous recombination reciprocal of the Smith–Magenis microdeletion". Nature Genetics. New York, New York: Nature Publishing Group. 24 (1): 84–87. doi:10.1038/71743. ISSN 1061-4036. PMID 10615134.


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