Associate Professor of Pediatrics

• Patient Oriented Research
• Genetics and Genomic Medicine

Education

• A.B., Biochemistry: Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, 1976
• M.D., University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, 1981

Training

• Residency: Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 1982
• Residency: Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin, 1985
• Residency: Pathology, University of Wisconsin, 1986
• Fellowship: Interinstitute Fellowship, Medical Genetics,National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 1989

Licensure and Board Certification

• American Board of Pediatrics, 1987
• Medical Genetics - Clinical Genetics--Certified 1990

Areas of Clinical Interest

Medical genetics, genetic disease, genetic counseling, inherited disorders, inborn errors of metabolism, phenylketonuria (PKU), birth defects, malformation syndromes, chromosomal disorders, metabolic disorders, Marfan syndrome, connective tissue disorders, overgrowth disorders, craniofacial disorders, and pediatric pathology.

Selected Publications

1. Kaplan, SS, Ojemann JG, Grange DK, Fuller C, Park TS: Intracranial infantile myofibromatosis with intraparenchymal involvement. Pediatr Neurosurg 2002; 36(4):214-7.

2. Reichenberger E, Tiziani V, Watanabe S, Park L, Ueki Y, Santanna C, Baur ST, Shiang R, Grange DK, Beighton P, Gardner J, Hamersma H, Sellars S, Ramesar R, Lidral AC, Sommer A, Raposo do Amaral CM, Gorlin RJ, Mulliken JB, Olsen BR: Autosomal dominant craniometaphyseal dysplasia is caused by mutations in the transmembrane protein ANK. Am J Hum Genet 2001; 68(6):1321-6.

3. Batanian JR, Grange DK, Fleming R, Gadre B, Wetzel J: Two unbalanced translocations involving a common 6p25 region in two XY female patients. Clinical Genetics 2001; 59:52-57.

4. Grange DK, Kratz LE, Braverman NE, Kelley RI: CHILD syndrome caused by deficiency of 3beta-hydroxysteroid-delta 8, delta 7-isomerase. Am J Med Genet 2000; 90(4):328-35.

5. Batanian JR, Huang Y, Gottesman GS, Grange DK, and Blasingame AV: Preferential involvement of the short arm in chromosome 8-derived supernumerary markers and ring as identified by chromosome arm painting. Am J Med Genet 2000; 90(4):276-82.

6. Verloes A, Lesenfants S, Barr M, Grange DK, Joumel H, Lombet J, Mortier, Roeder E: Fronto-otopalatodigital osteodysplasia: clinical evidence for a single entity encompassing Melniok-Needles syndrome, otopalatodigital syndrome types 1 and 2, and frontometaphyseal dysplasia. Am J Med Genet 2000; 90(5):407-22.

7. Walker LC, Marini JC, Grange DK, Filie J, Yeowell HN: A patient with Ehlers-Danlos type VI is homozygous for a premature termination codon in exon 14 of the lysyl hydroxylase gene. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism 1999; 67:74-82.