Luigi Boccuto, MD

Staff Scientist

Dr. Boccuto is a clinical geneticist, with several years of training under Professor Neri in Rome, with a focus on in hereditary cancer, overgrowth syndromes and intellectual disability syndromes. Dr. Buccuto is currently a staff scientist at the JC Self research Institute of the Greenwood Genetic Center studying autism and intellectual disability.

Selected publications

• Carter MT, Geraghty MT, DeLa Cruz L, Reichard RR, Buccoto L, Schwartz CE, Clericuaio CL. A new syndrome with multiple capillary malformations, intractable seizures, and rain and limb anomalies. Am J Med Genet A 2011 Feb:155(2):301-6.

• Lyons MJ, Graham JM Jr, Neri G, Hunter AG, Clark RD, Rogers RC, Moscarda M, Boccuto L, Simensen R, Dodd J, Robertson S, DuPont BR, Friez MJ, Schwartz CE, Stevenson RE. Clinical experience in the evaluation of 30 patients with a prior diagnosis of FG syndrome J Med Genet. Jan;46(1):9-13. 2009.
  
  
• Cerrato F, Sparago A, Verde G, De Crescenzo A, Citro V, Cubellis MV, Rinaldi MM, Boccuto L, Neri G, Magnani C, D'Angelo P, Collini P, Perotti D, Sebastio G, Maher ER, Riccio A. Different mechanisms cause imprinting defects at the IGF2/H19 locus in Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome and Wilms' tumour. Hum Mol Genet. May 15;17(10):1427-35.2008.
  
  
• M. Agostini, M.G. Tibiletti, E. Lucci-Cordisco, A.Chiaravalli, H. Morreau, D. Furlan, L. Boccuto, S. Pucciarelli, C. Capella, M. Boiocchi, and A. Viel. Two PMS2 Mutations in a Turcot Syndrome Family with Small Bowel Cancers Am J Gastroenterol; 100: 1886-1891. 2005.