Richard J. Schroer, M.D.

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Sr. Clinical Geneticist, Sr. Clinical Laboratory Geneticist - Florence

  • M.D., Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, 1975

  • Residency (Pediatrics) Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, 1975-1978

  • Fellow, Greenwood Genetic Center, 1978-80

  • Metabolic Fellow, Greenwood Genetic Center, 2001-2002

Richard Schroer, MD, is a clinical geneticist involved in the evaluation and treatment of patients with a variety of genetic conditions.  His clinical interests include mental retardation, X-linked mental retardation, autism, dysmorphology, birth defects and biochemical disorders.

Dr. Schroer is certified by the American Board of Medical Genetics in clinical genetics (1982) and clinical biochemical genetics (2002), and the American Board of Pediatrics (1981). He is a member of the American Society of Human Genetics.

Selected publications:

  • Feldman GL, Weiss L, Phelan MC, Schroer RJ, Van Dyke DL:  Inverted duplication of 8p: Ten new patients and review of the literature. Am J Med Genetic 47:482-486, 1993.

  • Wang Y, Treat K, Schroer RJ, O’Brien JE, Stevenson RE, Schwartz CE.  Localization of Branchio-Oto-Renal (BOR) syndrome to a 3 Mb region of chromosome 8q. Am J Med Genet 51:169-175, 1994.

  • Häne B, Schroer RJ, Arena JF, Lubs HA, Schwartz CE, Stevenson RE.  Nonsyndromic X-linked mental retardation: review and mapping of MRX29 to Xp21. Clin Genet 50:176-183, 1996.

  • Schroer RJ, Phelan MC, Michaelis RC, Crawford EC, Skinner SA, Cuccaro M, Simensen RJ, Bishop J, Skinner C, Fender D, Stevenson RE.  Autism and maternal derived aberrations of chromosome 15q. Am J Med Genet 76:327-336, 1998.

  • Armfield K, Nelson R, Lubs HA, Häne B, Schroer RJ, Arena F, Schwartz CE, Stevenson RE.  X-linked mental retardation syndrome with short stature, small hands and feet, seizures, cleft palate, and glaucoma is linked to Xq28.  Am J Med Genet 85:236-42, 1999.

  • Stevenson RE, Schwartz CE, Schroer RJ: X-linked Mental Retardation.  New York, Oxford Press, 2000.

  • Plank SM, Copeland-Yates, SA, Sossey-Alaauik, Bell JM, Schroer RJ, Skinner C, Michaelis RC.  Lack of association of the (AAAT)6 allele of the GXAlu tetranucleotide repeat in intron 27b of the NF1 gene with autism. Am J Med Genet 105:404, 2001.

 

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