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Stephanie L. Sherman

Stephanie L. Sherman

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Genetics

D-Index
83
Citations
25317
World Ranking
1415
National Ranking
667

Medicine

D-Index
84
Citations
25748
World Ranking
15102
National Ranking
7628

Overview

Stephanie L. Sherman is affiliated with Emory University in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work encompasses various subfields including Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Epidemiology.

The main areas of research for Sherman involve Down syndrome and intellectual disability, Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorder, congenital heart defects, chronic disease management strategies, family and disability support, and genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities.

Significant recent publications include:

  • Down syndrome, 2020, Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • Medical vulnerability of individuals with Down syndrome to severe COVID-19-data from the Trisomy 21 Research Society and the UK ISARIC4C survey, 2021, EClinicalMedicine
  • Opportunities, barriers, and recommendations in Down syndrome research, 2021, Translational Science of Rare Diseases
  • Expressive language sampling as a source of outcome measures for treatment studies in fragile X syndrome: feasibility, practice effects, test-retest reliability, and construct validity, 2020, Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Refining the risk for fragile X-associated primary ovarian insufficiency (FXPOI) by FMR1 CGG repeat size, 2021, Genetics in Medicine

Sherman frequently publishes in venues such as the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Scientific Reports, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), SSRN Electronic Journal, and Genetics in Medicine.

The scientist collaborates regularly with several coauthors, including André Strydom, Mara Dierssen, Anke Hüls, Tracie C. Rosser, and Alberto C. S. Costa.

Best Publications

  • FMR1 and the fragile X syndrome: Human genome epidemiology review

    Dana C Crawford;Juan M Acuña;Juan M Acuña;Stephanie L Sherman

  • Further segregation analysis of the fragile X syndrome with special reference to transmitting males

    S. L. Sherman;P. A. Jacobs;N. E. Morton;U. Froster-Iskenius

  • Association and Linkage of the Dopamine Transporter Gene and Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children: Heterogeneity owing to Diagnostic Subtype and Severity

    I.D. Waldman;D.C. Rowe;A. Abramowitz;S.T. Kozel

  • Epidemiology of Down syndrome

    Stephanie L. Sherman;Emily G. Allen;Lora H. Bean;Sallie B. Freeman

  • Premature ovarian failure in the fragile X syndrome.

    Stephanie L. Sherman

  • Population-based study of congenital heart defects in Down syndrome.

    Sallie B. Freeman;Lisa F. Taft;Kenneth J. Dooley;Katherine Allran

  • Polymorphisms in genes involved in folate metabolism as maternal risk factors for Down syndrome.

    Charlotte A. Hobbs;Stephanie L. Sherman;Ping Yi;Sarah E. Hopkins

  • Association of FMR1 repeat size with ovarian dysfunction

    A.K. Sullivan;M. Marcus;M.P. Epstein;E.G. Allen

  • Incidence of fragile X syndrome by newborn screening for methylated FMR1 DNA.

    Bradford Coffee;Krayton Keith;Igor Albizua;Tamika Malone

  • The FMR1 premutation and reproduction.

    Michael D. Wittenberger;Randi J. Hagerman;Stephanie L. Sherman;Allyn McConkie-Rosell

  • The marker (X) syndrome: a cytogenetic and genetic analysis

    S. L. Sherman;N. E. Morton;P. A. Jacobs;G. Turner

  • Susceptible chiasmate configurations of chromosome 21 predispose to non-disjunction in both maternal meiosis I and meiosis II

    Neil E. Lamb;Sallie B. Freeman;Amanda Savage-Austin;Dorothy Pettay

  • Expansion of the Fragile X CGG Repeat in Females with Premutation or Intermediate Alleles

    Sarah L. Nolin;W. Ted Brown;Anne Glicksman;George E. Houck

  • Fragile X syndrome: Diagnostic and carrier testing

    Stephanie Sherman;Beth A. Pletcher;Deborah A. Driscoll

  • Ethnicity, sex, and the incidence of congenital heart defects: a report from the National Down Syndrome Project.

    Sallie B Freeman;Lora H Bean;Emily G Allen;Stuart W Tinker

  • Dopamine DRD4 receptor polymorphism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

    D C Rowe;C Stever;L N Giedinghagen;J M C Gard

  • Recombination and nondisjunction in humans and flies

    Kara E. Koehler;R. Scott Hawley;Stephanie Sherman;Stephanie Sherman;Terry Hassold

  • Recombination and maternal age-dependent nondisjunction : molecular studies of trisomy 16

    T Hassold;M Merrill;K Adkins;S Freeman

  • Characterization of Susceptible Chiasma Configurations that Increase the Risk for Maternal Nondisjunction of Chromosome 21

    Neil E. Lamb;Eleanor Feingold;Amanda Savage;Dimitris Avramopoulos

  • Examination of reproductive aging milestones among women who carry the FMR1 premutation

    E.G. Allen;A.K. Sullivan;M. Marcus;C. Small

Frequent Co-Authors

Eleanor Feingold
Eleanor Feingold University of Pittsburgh
Terry J. Hassold
Terry J. Hassold Washington State University
Newton E. Morton
Newton E. Morton University of Southampton
Jurg Ott
Jurg Ott Rockefeller University
Peter L. Pearson
Peter L. Pearson Universidade de São Paulo
Kenneth K. Kidd
Kenneth K. Kidd Yale University
David R. Cox
David R. Cox Stanford University
Hans-Hilger Ropers
Hans-Hilger Ropers Max Planck Society
Mark H. Skolnick
Mark H. Skolnick Myriad Genetics (Germany)
Ray White
Ray White University of Utah

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