Thaddeus P. Dryja, MD

Cogan Eye Pathology Laboratory

Specialty Area

Ophthalmology - Eye pathology

Clinical Background

Medical School

Yale University School of Medicine, 1976

Residency

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1981 Ophthalmology

Fellowships

Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1979 Ophthalmic Pathology
Children's Hospital, Boston, 1983 Genetics

Board Certification

Ophthalmology, 1982
American Board of Medical Genetics (Clinical Molecular Genetics), 1993. 2002

Clinical Interests

Pathology

Research Interests

Genetics of hereditary eye disease

Selected Publications

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Ben-Arie-Weintrob Y, Berson EL, Dryja TP. Histopathologic-genotypic correlations in retinitis pigmentosa and allied diseases. Ophthal Genet 2005;26:91-100.

Dryja TP, McGee TL, Berson EL, et al. Night blindness and abnormal cone ERG ON responses in patients with mutations in the GRM6 gene encoding the mGluR6 receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2005;102:4884-9.

Wada Y, Sandberg MA, McGee TL, et al. Screen of the IMPDH1 gene among patients with dominant retinitis pigmentosa and clinical features associated with the most common mutation, Asp226Asn. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2005;46:1735-41.

Nishiguchi KM, Sandberg MA, Kooijman AC, et al. Defects in RGS9 or its anchor protein R9AP in patients with slow photoreceptor deactivation. Nature 2004;427:75-8.

Publications

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