Christian Michael Parobek

Maternal-Fetal Medicine Genetics Fellow

Email

christian.parobek@bcm.edu

Positions

Maternal-Fetal Medicine Genetics Fellow: Obstetrics and Gynecology
Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States

Addresses

6651 MAIN STREET, 10th Floor (Clinic): Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 826-7371
Fax: (832) 825-9352
Christian.Parobek@bcm.edu

6651 MAIN STREET, 10th Floor (Office): Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 826-7371
Fax: (832) 825-9352
Christian.Parobek@bcm.edu

6651 MAIN STREET, 10th Floor (Hospital): Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 826-7371
Fax: (832) 825-9352
Christian.Parobek@bcm.edu

Education

Clinical Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine: Houston, Texas, United States; Maternal-Fetal Medicine/Genetics and Genomics

Residency at Brown University: 06/2022 - Providence, Rhode Island

MD-PhD from University of North Carolina: 05/2018 - Chapel Hill, NC; Genetics and Molecular Biology

Selected Publications

Taylor SM, Parobek CM, Fairhurst RM. " Haemoglobinopathies and the clinical epidemiology of malaria: a systematic review and meta-analysis " Lancet Infect Dis .. 2012 Jun ;
Pubmed PMID: 22445352.
Parobek CM, Zemet R, Shanahan MA, Burnett BA, Mizerik E, Rosenfeld JA, Vossaert L, Clark SL, Hunter JV, Lalani SR. " Clinical exome sequencing uncovers genetic disorders in neonates with suspected hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy: A retrospective analysis " Clin Genet. 2024 Jul ; 106 (1) : 95-101.
Pubmed PMID: 38545656.
Parobek CM, Has P, Lorenzi P, Clark MA, Lewkowitz AK, Russo ML. " Inconsistent use of alpha-fetoprotein as a screen for fetal anomalies " Am J Obstet Gynecol MFM. 2023 Oct ; 5 (10)
Pubmed PMID: 37595840.
Parobek CM, Thorsen MM, Has P, Lorenzi P, Clark MA, Russo ML, Lewkowitz AK. " Video education about genetic privacy and patient perspectives about sharing prenatal genetic data: a randomized trial " Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2022 Jul ; 227 (1)
Pubmed PMID: 35351406.
Parobek CM, Has P, Lorenzi P, Russo ML, Clark MA, Lewkowitz AK. " What test did I have? Patient uncertainty about prenatal genetic screening " Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2021 Sep ; 225 (3)
Pubmed PMID: 34051169.
Parobek CM, Russo ML, Lewkowitz AK. " Privacy practices using genetic data from cell-free DNA aneuploidy screening " Genet Med. 2021 Sep ; 23 (9) : 1746-1752.
Pubmed PMID: 34012070.
Parobek CM, Russo ML, Lewkowitz AK. " Privacy Risks in Prenatal Aneuploidy and Carrier Screening: What Obstetricians and Their Patients Need to Know " Obstet Gynecol. 2021 Jun ; 137 (6) : 1074-1079.
Pubmed PMID: 33957653.
Hathaway NJ, Parobek CM, Juliano JJ, Bailey JA. " SeekDeep: single-base resolution de novo clustering for amplicon deep sequencing " Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 Feb ; 46 (4)
Pubmed PMID: 29202193.
Parobek CM, Lin JT, Saunders DL, Barnett EJ, Lon C, Lanteri CA, Balasubramanian S, Brazeau N, DeConti DK, Garba DL, Meshnick SR, Spring MD, Chuor CM, Bailey JA, Juliano JJ. " Selective sweep suggests transcriptional regulation may underlie Plasmodium vivax resilience to malaria control measures in Cambodia " Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Dec ; 113 (50)
Pubmed PMID: 27911780.
Parobek CM, Archer FI, DePrenger-Levin ME, Hoban SM, Liggins L, Strand AE. " skelesim: an extensible, general framework for population genetic simulation in R " Mol Ecol Resour. 2017 Jan ; 17 (1)
Pubmed PMID: 27736016.
Parobek CM, Parr JB, Brazeau NF, Lon C, Chaorattanakawee S, Gosi P, Barnett EJ, Norris LD, Meshnick SR, Spring MD, Lanteri CA, Bailey JA, Saunders DL, Lin JT, Juliano JJ. " Partner-Drug Resistance and Population Substructuring of Artemisinin-Resistant Plasmodium falciparum in Cambodia " Genome Biol Evol. 2017 Jun ; 9 (6) : 1673-1686.
Pubmed PMID: 28854635.
Patel JC, Hathaway NJ, Parobek CM, Thwai KL, Madanitsa M, Khairallah C, Kalilani-Phiri L, Mwapasa V, Massougbodji A, Fievet N, Bailey JA, Ter Kuile FO, Deloron P, Engel SM, Taylor SM, Juliano JJ, Tuikue Ndam N, Meshnick SR. " Increased risk of low birth weight in women with placental malaria associated with P. falciparum VAR2CSA clade " Sci Rep. 2017 Aug ; 7 (1)
Pubmed PMID: 28801627.