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Margaret Wat

Molecular and Human Genetics

Undergraduate Institution: Duke University

Year: Third-Year Graduate Student

Mentor: Daryl Scott, M.D., Ph.D.

Thesis Title: Identification and Characterization of Genes in Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

Publications:

Wat MJ, Shchelochkov OA, Holder AM, Breman AM, Dagli A, Bacino C, Scaglia F, Zori RT, Cheung SW, Scott DA, Kang SH. Chromosome 8p23.1 deletions as a cause of complex congenital heart defects and diaphragmatic hernia. Am J Med Genet A. 2009 Aug; 149A(8):1661-77.