Professor of Pediatrics, University Nevada

Medical Genetics

Colleen Morris practices Medical Genetics. She studied medicine at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. She received awards:"America's Top Doctors" and "Desert Companion". Colleen Morris is also a published physician. She has 59 publication published. The most recent publication is: Complete physical map of the common deletion region in Williams syndrome and identification and characterization of three novel genes.

Publications

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• Spectrum of MLL2 (ALR) mutations in 110 cases of Kabuki syndrome.
• The behavioral phenotype of Williams syndrome: A recognizable pattern of neurodevelopment.
• Inversion of the Williams syndrome region is a common polymorphism found more frequently in parents of children with Williams syndrome.
• Alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency alleles are associated with joint dislocation and scoliosis in Williams syndrome.
• Genetic counseling of adults with Williams syndrome: a first study.
• Introduction: Williams syndrome.
• Abnormalities in neural processing of emotional stimuli in Williams syndrome vary according to social vs. non-social content.
• Genome rearrangements detected by SNP microarrays in individuals with intellectual disability referred with possible Williams syndrome.
• A genetic model for understanding higher order visual processing: functional interactions of the ventral visual stream in Williams syndrome.
• The common inversion of the Williams-Beuren syndrome region at 7q11.23 does not cause clinical symptoms.
• Infantile spasms is associated with deletion of the MAGI2 gene on chromosome 7q11.23-q21.11.
• Adults with genetic syndromes and cardiovascular abnormalities: clinical history and management.
• Genetic contributions to white matter architecture revealed by diffusion tensor imaging in Williams syndrome.
• Diagnosis and management of medical problems in adults with Williams-Beuren syndrome.
• Severe expressive-language delay related to duplication of the Williams-Beuren locus.
• Genetic contributions to human gyrification: sulcal morphometry in Williams syndrome.
• Neural correlates of genetically abnormal social cognition in Williams syndrome.
• Functional, structural, and metabolic abnormalities of the hippocampal formation in Williams syndrome.
• Intellectual abilities and adaptive behavior of children and adolescents with Kabuki syndrome: a preliminary study.
• Neural basis of genetically determined visuospatial construction deficit in Williams syndrome.
• Cornelia de Lange syndrome is caused by mutations in NIPBL, the human homolog of Drosophila melanogaster Nipped-B.
• GTF2I hemizygosity implicated in mental retardation in Williams syndrome: genotype-phenotype analysis of five families with deletions in the Williams syndrome region.
• Heat shock protein 27 gene: chromosomal and molecular location and relationship to Williams syndrome.
• Attentional characteristics of infants and toddlers with Williams syndrome during triadic interactions.
• New perspectives on the face in fetal alcohol syndrome: what anthropometry tells us.
• Behavioral phenotypes in genetic syndromes: genetic clues to human behavior.
• Bowman-Birk inhibitor attenuates dystrophic pathology in mdx mice.
• Complement activation by apoptotic endothelial cells following hypoxia/reoxygenation.
• Native and a synthetic analogue of the malignancy-associated parathyroid hormone-like protein have in vitro transforming growth factor-like properties.
• Catalase gene is associated with facial eczema disease resistance in sheep.
• A gene for Crouzon craniofacial dysostosis maps to the long arm of chromosome 10.
• Adults with Williams syndrome.
• Hypothesis for development of a behavioral phenotype in Williams syndrome.
• Three diagnostic signs in Williams syndrome.
• Beare-Stevenson cutis gyrata syndrome.
• Williams syndrome and related disorders.
• Delineation of the male phenotype in carniofrontonasal syndrome.
• Natural history of Williams syndrome: physical characteristics.
• 18p- syndrome and hypopituitarism.
• Genetic aspects of supravalvular aortic stenosis.
• A human vascular disorder, supravalvular aortic stenosis, maps to chromosome 7.
• Elastin point mutations cause an obstructive vascular disease, supravalvular aortic stenosis.
• The subtle facial signs of prenatal exposure to alcohol: an anthropometric approach.
• The elastin gene is disrupted by a translocation associated with supravalvular aortic stenosis.
• Williams syndrome: autosomal dominant inheritance.
• A novel human gene, WSTF, is deleted in Williams syndrome.
• A novel human gene FKBP6 is deleted in Williams syndrome.
• Complete physical map of the common deletion region in Williams syndrome and identification and characterization of three novel genes.
• Supravalvular aortic stenosis associated with a deletion disrupting the elastin gene.
• The Williams syndrome cognitive profile.
• LIM-kinase1 hemizygosity implicated in impaired visuospatial constructive cognition.
• Strong correlation of elastin deletions, detected by FISH, with Williams syndrome: evaluation of 235 patients.
• Hemizygosity at the elastin locus in a developmental disorder, Williams syndrome.
• Supravalvular aortic stenosis cosegregates with a familial 6; 7 translocation which disrupts the elastin gene.
• Bilateral semilunar valve disease in a child with partial deletion of the Williams-Beuren syndrome region is associated with elastin haploinsufficiency.
• BAC-FISH refutes report of an 8p22-8p23.1 inversion or duplication in 8 patients with Kabuki syndrome.
• Retinotopically defined primary visual cortex in Williams syndrome.
• Frequency of the 7q11.23 inversion polymorphism in transmitting parents of children with Williams syndrome and in the general population does not differ between North ...

Schools

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• Loyola University

• Phoenix Hospital Affil Ped Pgm

• University Utah School Med

Doctors Specialties

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• Medical Genetics
• Pediatrics

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• America's Top Doctors
• Desert Companion

Education

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• University of Utah
• Maricopa Medical Center
• Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center
• Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine

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