Dr. Karla Renee Bowles PH.D., FACMG
Geneticist | Clinical Molecular Genetics
1102 Bates Ave Feigin Center, Rm Fc Houston TX, 77030About
Dr. Karla Bowles practices Genetic Medicine in Houston, TX. As a geneticist, Dr. Bowles performs experiments and analyzes data to interpret the inheritance of different traits in patients. A geneticist evaluates, diagnoses, and manages patients? with hereditary conditions or congenital malformations, genetic risk calculations, and mutation analysis. Dr. Bowles carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
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Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Etiologies of cardiomyopathy and heart failure.
- Mutation analysis of the G4.5 gene in patients with isolated left ventricular noncompaction.
- Detection of viruses in myocardial tissues by polymerase chain reaction. evidence of adenovirus as a common cause of myocarditis in children and adults.
- Mutations in the muscle LIM protein and alpha-actinin-2 genes in dilated cardiomyopathy and endocardial fibroelastosis.
- Mutations in Cypher/ZASP in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy and left ventricular non-compaction.
- Isolated left ventricular noncompaction is rarely caused by mutations in G4.5, alpha-dystrobrevin and FK Binding Protein-12.
- Genetics of inherited cardiomyopathies.
- Danon disease as an underrecognized cause of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in children.
- Genetic analysis in patients with left ventricular noncompaction and evidence for genetic heterogeneity.
- Viral genomic detection and outcome in myocarditis.
- Viral epidemiologic shift in inflammatory heart disease: the increasing involvement of parvovirus B19 in the myocardium of pediatric cardiac transplant patients.
- Viral endomyocardial infection is an independent predictor and potentially treatable risk factor for graft loss and coronary vasculopathy in pediatric cardiac transplant recipients.
- Development and validation of a new algorithm for the reclassification of genetic variants identified in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.
- Classification of genetic variants in genes associated with Lynch syndrome using a clinical history weighting algorithm.
- Complexities of Variant Classification in Clinical Hereditary Cancer Genetic Testing.
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