Email

pward@bcm.edu

Positions

Associate Professor

Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

ABGC Certified Genetic Counselor

Baylor Miraca Genetics Laboratories

Education

Advanced Training from University Of California, San Francisco

01/1980 - San Francisco, CA United States

M.S. from University Of California, Berkeley

01/1980 - Berkeley, CA United States

B. Tech from Connecticut College

01/1974 - New London, CT United States

Certifications

American Board of Genetic Counseling

American Board of Genetic Counseling

Websites

Selected Publications

• Lu X, Shaw CA, Patel A, Li J, Cooper ML, Wells WR, Sullivan CM, Sahoo T, Yatsenko SA, Bacino CA, Stankiewicz P, Ou Z, Chinault AC, Beaudet AL, Lupski JR, Cheung SW, Ward PA "Clinical implementation of chromosomal microarray analysis: summary of 2513 postnatal cases.." PLoS ONE. 2007;2(3):e327. Pubmed PMID: 17389918
• Van den Veyver IB, Patel A, Shaw CA, Pursley AN, Kang SH, Simovich MJ, Ward PA, Darilek S, Johnson A, Neill SE, Bi W, White LD, Eng CM, Lupski JR, Cheung SW, Beaudet AL "Clinical use of array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) for prenatal diagnosis in 300 cases.." Prenat. Diagn.. 2009 Jan;29(1):29-39. Pubmed PMID: 19012303
• Eichler EE, Holden JJ, Popovich BW, Reiss AL, Snow K, Thibodeau SN, Richards CS, Ward PA, Nelson DL "Length of uninterrupted CGG repeats determines instability in the FMR1 gene.." Nat. Genet.. 1994 Sep;8(1):88-94. Pubmed PMID: 7987398
• Darilek S, Ward P, Pursley A, Plunkett K, Furman P, Magoulas P, Patel A, Cheung SW, Eng CM "Pre- and postnatal genetic testing by array-comparative genomic hybridization: genetic counseling perspectives.." Genet. Med.. 2008 Jan;10(1):13-8. Pubmed PMID: 18197052