Rhona Schreck, PhD
Scientific Director, Clinical Cytogenetics Laboratory
Clinical Specialty:
Cytogenetics
Email: Rhona.Schreck@csmc.edu
Phone: 310-423-2878
Education and Training
- Columbia University, New York, NY; PhD (Human Genetics)
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Clinical Genetics, Dept of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Board Certification
- Board Certified, American Board of Medical Genetics in Cytogenetics
Clinical and Research Interests
- Clinical cytogenetics
- Structural organization of chromosomes
- Parmacogenetics of carcinogen activation
Awards and Activities
- American Board of Medical Genetics Exam Contributor
- Founding Member, American College of Medical Genetics
- Recipient, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center President’s Award
Selected Publications
- Akagi T, Shih LY, Ogawa S, Gerss J, Moore SR, Schreck R, et al. Single nucleotide polymorphism genomic arrays analysis of t(8;21) acute myeloid leukemia cells. Haematologica 2009; 94:1301-6.
- Kawamata N, Zhang L, Ogawa S, Nannya Y, Dashti A, Lu D, Lim S, Schreck R, Koeffler HP. Double minute chromosomes containing MYB gene and NUP214-ABL1 fusion gene in T-cell leukemia detected by single nucleotide polymorphism DNA microarray and fluorescence in situ hybridization. Leuk Res. 2009;33:569-71.\
- Wong AK, Fang B, Zhang L, Guo X, Lee S, Schreck R. Loss of the Y chromosome: an age-related or clonal phenomenon in acute myelogenous leukemia/myelodysplastic syndrome? Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2008;132:1329-32.
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