Professor Emeritus, Genetics, Stanford University Medical Center

Medical Genetics

Francke works in the field of Medical Genetics. He received 4 awards: "Elected Member", "Elected Fellow", "President" and "William Allan Award". Uta Francke is also a published MD. He has 22 publication published. The most recent publication is: How will genomic information become integrated into the health care system?

Publications

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• On the bumpy road towards 'personalized medicine'.
• 2012 William Allan Award: Adventures in cytogenetics.
• Dealing with the unexpected: consumer responses to direct-access BRCA mutation testing.
• Genome-wide association analysis implicates elastic microfibrils in the development of nonsyndromic striae distensae.
• A genome-wide association meta-analysis of self-reported allergy identifies shared and allergy-specific susceptibility loci.
• How will genomic information become integrated into the health care system?
• Genome-wide analysis points to roles for extracellular matrix remodeling, the visual cycle, and neuronal development in myopia.
• Genetic variants associated with breast size also influence breast cancer risk.
• Comparison of family history and SNPs for predicting risk of complex disease.
• Novel associations for hypothyroidism include known autoimmune risk loci.
• Reduction of NADPH-oxidase activity ameliorates the cardiovascular phenotype in a mouse model of Williams-Beuren Syndrome.
• Skeletogenic phenotype of human Marfan embryonic stem cells faithfully phenocopied by patient-specific induced-pluripotent stem cells.
• Efficient replication of over 180 genetic associations with self-reported medical data.
• Web-based genome-wide association study identifies two novel loci and a substantial genetic component for Parkinson's disease.
• Control of bone formation by the serpentine receptor Frizzled-9.
• Induced chromosome deletion in a Williams-Beuren syndrome mouse model causes cardiovascular abnormalities.
• Prognosis factors in probands with an FBN1 mutation diagnosed before the age of 1 year.
• Cardiovascular manifestations in men and women carrying a FBN1 mutation.
• Neonatal maternal deprivation response and developmental changes in gene expression revealed by hypothalamic gene expression profiling in mice.
• Induced chromosome deletions cause hypersociability and other features of Williams-Beuren syndrome in mice.
• Widespread changes in dendritic and axonal morphology in Mecp2-mutant mouse models of Rett syndrome: evidence for disruption of neuronal networks.

Doctors Specialties

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• Clinical Cytogenetics
• Clinical Genetics
• Clinical Molecular Genetics
• Pediatrics
• Medical Genetics

Accepted Insurances

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• Blue Card PPO
• Advantage Preferred DirectAccess Plus PPO
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of California PPO
• Select PPO
• Access Plus Savenet
• Basic Exclusive PPO for Small Business
• Basic PPO
• Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
• LocalPlus
• Covered California - Bronze PPO
• Health Net PPO
• Individual and Family PPO
• Medicaid
• Medicare MCR
• Kaiser PHCS Network PPO
• MultiPlan PPO
• PHCS Network PPO
• Heritage Signature
• Choice Plus POS
• Navigate HMO
• Navigate POS
• Options PPO

Awards

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• Elected Member
• Elected Fellow
• President
• William Allan Award

Education

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• Children's Hospital of Los Angeles

Hospital

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• Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
• Stanford Health Care

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