Gordana Raca, MD, PhD, FACMG
Position title: Director, Clinical Cytogenomics Laboratory, Center for Personalized Medicine Professor of Clinical Pathology, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Website: Children's Hospital of Los Angeles
Phone: (773) 834-0381
- Co-Director, Cancer Cytogenics Lab, University of Chicago Medical Center
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Education
MD, 1992, University of Novi Sad School of Medicine, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
M.S. in Cytogenetics, 1996, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Belgrade,Yugoslavia
PhD in Molecular Genetics, 2001, University of Illinois in Chicago
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Postdoctoral Training for ACMG Certification in Clinical Molecular Genetics, 2002-2004, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Postdoctoral Training for ACMG Certification in Clinical Cytogenetics, 2004-2006, Emory University, Atlanta GA
Clinical Interests
Dr. Raca is interested in cytogenetic and molecular diagnostics of genetic disorders. Her major focus is on clinical application of latest molecular techniques including gene sequencing, real time quantitative PCR, methylation sensitive PCR and array-CGH.
Research Interests
Dr. Raca’s research is focused on cytogenetic and molecular diagnostic techniques, and genetic causes of stillbirth and congenital eye anomalies. Her collaborative study with Dr. Lisa Schimmenti from the University of Minnesota uses advanced genomic techniques of high resolution comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) and massively parallel next generation sequencing (NGS) to search for mutations in new candidate genes for anophthalmia, microphthalmia and coloboma.
Publications
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