Lorraine Potocki

Lorraine Potocki
Born Lorraine Potocki
August 18, 1961 (1961-08-18) (age 55)
Trenton, New Jersey
Alma mater Boston University School of Medicine
Occupation Geneticist at Texas Children's Hospital
Board member of Clinical 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

  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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