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Lorraine Potocki

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Lorraine Potocki
Born
Lorraine Potocki

August 18, 1961 (1961-08-18) (age 63)
Trenton, New Jersey
Alma materBoston University School of Medicine
OccupationGeneticist at Texas Children's Hospital
Board member ofClinical Pathology and Clinical Genetics

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.

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

References

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  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. 24 (1). New York, New York: Nature Publishing Group: 84–87. doi:10.1038/71743. ISSN 1061-4036. PMID 10615134. S2CID 24400634.