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
https://www.bcm.edu/departments/molecular-and-human-genetics/education/residency-programs/maternal-fetal-medicine-medical-genetics-fellowship

6651 MAIN STREET, 10th Floor (Hospital)
: Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 826-7371
Fax: (832) 825-9352
Christian.Parobek@bcm.edu
https://www.bcm.edu/departments/molecular-and-human-genetics/education/residency-programs/maternal-fetal-medicine-medical-genetics-fellowship

6651 MAIN STREET, 10th Floor (Office)
: Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 826-7371
Fax: (832) 825-9352
Christian.Parobek@bcm.edu
https://www.bcm.edu/departments/molecular-and-human-genetics/education/residency-programs/maternal-fetal-medicine-medical-genetics-fellowship

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