Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Medical Genetics

Thomas M. Morgan works in the field of Medical Genetics. He graduated from Boston University School of Medicine. Boston University School of Medicine has a rank of 30 in research and a 52 in primary care Thomas M. Morgan, MD is a published doctor. He has 43 papers published. The most current publication "Renal Teratogens."

Publications

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• Renal Teratogens.
• Homozygous loss of DIAPH1 is a novel cause of microcephaly in humans.
• Brief report: risk of adverse fetal outcomes associated with immunosuppressive medications for chronic immune-mediated diseases in pregnancy.
• Investigation of genetic risk factors for chronic adult diseases for association with preterm birth.
• Better by the Pound: The Genetics of Birth Weight.
• Genetic Risk Score Does Not Correlate with Body Mass Index of Latina Women in a Clinical Trial.
• Common polymorphisms in human lysyl oxidase genes are not associated with the adolescent idiopathic scoliosis phenotype.
• Variation in recovery: Role of gender on outcomes of young AMI patients (VIRGO) study design.
• L-histidine decarboxylase and Tourette's syndrome.
• Consanguinity mapping of congenital heart disease in a South Indian population.
• National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference Statement: Family History and Improving Health.
• National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference Statement: Family History and Improving Health: August 24-26, 2009.
• Molecular cytogenetic analysis and resequencing of contactin associated protein-like 2 in autism spectrum disorders.
• Nonvalidation of reported genetic risk factors for acute coronary syndrome in a large-scale replication study.
• Sequence variants in SLITRK1 are associated with Tourette's syndrome.
• Acute effects of nicotine on serum glucose insulin growth hormone and cortisol in healthy smokers.
• Reporting of model validation procedures in human studies of genetic interactions.
• The education and medical practice of Dr. James McCune Smith (1813-1865), first black American to hold a medical degree.
• Epigenetic abnormalities associated with a chromosome 18(q21-q22) inversion and a Gilles de la Tourette syndrome phenotype.
• Maternal smoking and congenital birth defects.
• Investigation of 95 variants identified in a genome-wide study for association with mortality after acute coronary syndrome.
• Vaccines are not associated with metabolic events in children with urea cycle disorders.
• Lack of association between the Trp719Arg polymorphism in kinesin-like protein-6 and coronary artery disease in 19 case-control studies.
• Investigation of 89 candidate gene variants for effects on all-cause mortality following acute coronary syndrome.
• Disruption of contactin 4 (CNTN4) results in developmental delay and other features of 3p deletion syndrome.
• Additional support for the association of SLITRK1 var321 and Tourette syndrome.
• Overestimation of genetic risks owing to small sample sizes in cardiovascular studies.
• Dietary fish or seafood consumption is not related to cerebrovascular disease risk in twin veterans.
• Individual and combined effects of estrogen/progestin therapy and lovastatin on lipids and flow-mediated vasodilation in postmenopausal women with coronary artery dise...
• Autism in a 15-month-old child.
• A common cardiac sodium channel variant associated with sudden infant death in African Americans, SCN5A S1103Y.
• Hypertension, age, and location predict rupture of small intracranial aneurysms.
• Primate-specific evolution of noncoding element insertion into PLA2G4C and human preterm birth.
• An evolutionary genomic approach to identify genes involved in human birth timing.
• Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the human progesterone receptor gene and spontaneous preterm birth.
• Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease.
• Population-based estimate of sibling risk for preterm birth, preterm premature rupture of membranes, placental abruption and pre-eclampsia.
• Genome-wide association of early-onset myocardial infarction with single nucleotide polymorphisms and copy number variants.
• Surfactant protein-A (SP-A) selectively inhibits prostaglandin F2alpha (PGF2alpha) production in term decidua: implications for the onset of labor.
• Turner syndrome: diagnosis and management.
• Siblings, day-care attendance, and the risk of asthma and wheezing.
• The economic impact of wasted prescription medication in an outpatient population of older adults.

Schools

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• Boston University School Of Medicine

• Dartmouth Hitchcock Mc

• Yale UYale New Haven Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• Clinical Genetics
• Family Medicine
• Medical Biochemical Genetics
• Medical Genetics

Accepted Insurances

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• Amerigroup (Wellpoint)
• Cigna HMO
• Cigna PPO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• LocalPlus
• Open Access Plus
• Coventry Health Care
• Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York (HIP) PPO
• Humana
• Medicaid
• Medicare MCR
• Freedom Plan
• Tricare
• Choice Plus POS
• Options PPO
• Oxford Liberty
• United Healthcare
• WellCare

Education

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• Yale-New Haven Hospital
• Yale University School of Medicine
• Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
• Boston University School of Medicine

Hospital

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• Vanderbilt Hospital and Clinics

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