Dr. Vijay S. Tonk PHD,FACMG
Geneticist | Clinical Cytogenetic
3601 4th St Lubbock TX, 79430About
Dr. Vijay Tonk practices Genetic Medicine in Lubbock, TX. As a geneticist, Dr. Tonk 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. Tonk carries out studies, tests, and counsels patients with genetic diseases.
Board Certification
Medical GeneticsAmerican Board of Medical GeneticsABMG
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Duplication of 1q in a child with down syndrome and myelodysplastic syndrome.
- Trisomy 5p. A case report and review.
- Duplication 8 [inv dup(8)(p12p23)] with macrocephaly.
- Interstitial deletion of 20q in a patient with Waldenström macroglobulinemia following chemotherapy.
- Unique case of mosaicism involving two morphologically similar marker chromosomes of different centric origin in a patient with developmental delay.
- De novo supernumerary ring chromosome 7: first report of a non-mosaic patient and review of the literature.
- Subtelomeric rearrangements in idiopathic mental retardation.
- Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia in a child with Crohn disease.
- Genomic alterations that contribute to the development of isolated and non-isolated congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
- Analyzing the most frequent disease loci in targeted patient categories optimizes disease gene identification and test accuracy worldwide.
- Moving towards a syndrome: a review of 20 cases and a new case of non-mosaic tetrasomy 9p with long-term survival.
- Comparison between fluorescence in situ hybridization and classical cytogenetics in human tumors.
- Chronic eosinophilic leukemia and hypereosinophilic syndromes. Proposal for classification, literature review, and report of a case with a unique chromosomal abnormality.
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