Dr. Anne W. Higgins

	Department of Pathology
	Brigham and Women's Hospital
	A teaching Affliate of Harvard Medical School
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Name and Present Position:

ANNE W. HIGGINS, Associate Cytogeneticist

Address:

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Pathology, Cytogenetics, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA

Graduate Medical Education (including dates and institution of internships, residencies, fellowships, etc.):

2000 Ph.D. (Human Genetics) Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
2000-2004 Research Fellow in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology,
Brigham and Women's Hospital
2000-2002 Clinical Cytogenetics Training Fellowship, American Board of Medical Genetics Training Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Certification:

2005 American Board of Medical Genetics (Clinical Cytogenetics)

Current Academic Appointment(s):

Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Current Medical Staff Appointment:

Associate Cytogeneticist, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Selected Bibliography:

Higgins, AW, Schueler, MG, Willard, HF. Chromosome engineering: generation of mono- and dicentric isochromosomes in a somatic cell hybrid system. Chromosoma 1999; 108: 256-265.
Schueler, MG, Higgins, AW, Nagaraja, R, Tentler, D, Dahl, N, Gustashaw, KM, Willard, HF. Large-insert clone / STS contigs in Xq11-q12, spanning deletions in patients with androgen insensitivity and mental retardation. Genomics 2000; 66: 104-109.
Schueler, MG, Higgins, AW, Rudd, KR, Gustashaw, K, Willard, HF. Genomic and Genetic Definition of a Functional Human Centromere. Science 2001; 294:109-115.
Scherer SW, Cheung J, MacDonald JR, Osborne LR, Nakabayashi K, Herbrick JA, Carson AR, Parker-Katiraee L, Skaug J, Khaja R, Zhang J, Hudek AK, Li M, Haddad M, Duggan GE, Fernandez BA, Kanematsu E, Gentles S, Christopoulos CC, Choufani S, Kwasnicka D, Zheng XH, Lai Z, Nusskern D, Zhang Q, Gu Z, Lu F, Zeesman S, Nowaczyk MJ, Teshima I, Chitayat D, Shuman C, Weksberg R, Zackai EH, Grebe TA, Cox SR, Kirkpatrick SJ, Rahman N, Friedman JM, Heng HH, Pelicci PG, Lo-Coco F, Belloni E, Shaffer LG, Pober B, Morton CC, Gusella JF, Bruns GA, Korf BR, Quade BJ, Ligon AH, Ferguson H, Higgins AW, Leach NT, Herrick SR, Lemyre E, Farra CG, Kim HG, Summers AM, Gripp KW, Roberts W, Szatmari P, Winsor EJ, Grzeschik KH, Teebi A, Minassian BA, Kere J, Armengol L, Pujana MA, Estivill X, Wilson MD, Koop BF, Tosi S, Moore GE, Boright AP, Zlotorynski E, Kerem B, Kroisel PM, Petek E, Oscier DG, Mould SJ, Dohner H, Dohner K, Rommens JM, Vincent JB, Venter JC, Li PW, Mural RJ, Adams MD, Tsui LC. Human chromosome 7: DNA sequence and biology. Science, 2003;300:767-772
Higgins, AW, Gustashaw, KM, Willard, HF. Engineered dicentric chromosomes show centromere plasticity. Chromosome Res. 2005;13(8);745-62.