Lorraine Potocki

Lorraine Potocki
Born	Lorraine Potocki August 18, 1961 (1961-08-18) (age 63) Trenton, New Jersey
Alma mater	Boston University School of Medicine
Occupation	Geneticist at Texas Children's Hospital
Board member of	Clinical Pathology and Clinical Genetics

Lorraine Potocki (born August 18, 1961) is a medical geneticist and educator at Texas Children's Hospital and is a professor at Baylor College of Medicine.

She is credited with the discovery of two genetic syndromes, Potocki-Lupski syndrome ^[1] and Potocki-Shaffer syndrome.

References

1. Potocki, Lorraine; Chen, KS; Park, SS; Osterholm, DE; Withers, MA; Kimonis, V; Summers, AM; Meschino, WS; et al. (January 2000). "Molecular mechanism for duplication 17p11.2 - the homologous recombination reciprocal of the Smith–Magenis microdeletion". Nature Genetics . 24 (1). New York, New York: Nature Publishing Group: 84–87. doi:10.1038/71743. ISSN   1061-4036. PMID   10615134. S2CID   24400634.