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Dr. Paldeep Atwal

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Dr. Atwal is a board-certified clinical and medical biochemical geneticist. He formerly served as Mayo Clinic’s Medical Director for the Center for Individualized Medicine and Clinical Lead for the Department of Clinical Genomics at the Jacksonville campus. He is a fellow of both The American College of Medical Genetics & Genomics and The Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom.

Dr. Atwal’s clinical interests include clinical genomics, undiagnosed diseases following lengthy diagnostic odysseys and inborn errors of metabolism including mitochondrial diseases. Through his work, he has helped discover two new genetic connective tissue syndromes that results from defects in the FLNA & AEBP1 genes, helped develop an untargeted metabolomic screening test for inborn errors of metabolism, and has published extensively on human genetics with over 100 publications to date.

Sept. 26, 2024

Genetic Testing in EDS with Dr. Paldeep Atwal

In this enlightening episode of the Bendy Bodies podcast, Dr. Linda Bluestein, the Hypermobility MD, is joined by renowned clinical geneticist Dr. Paldeep Atwal to delve into the complexities of genetics in hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) and related conditions. Dr. …

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April 29, 2020

8. Demystifying Genetics with Paldeep Atwal, M.D.

Your DNA holds many secrets. Why do drugs work on some people and not on others? Why are conditions expressed so differently in different family members? How might hypermobility disorders, dysautonomia (like POTS) and Mast...

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