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Michèle Ramsay obtained her PhD in Human Molecular Genetics from the University of the Witwatersrand and is currently the head of the Molecular Genetics Laboratory (service and research) in the Division of Human Genetics at the National Health Laboratory Service. She holds a joint appointment as Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand. Michèle teaches medical students and supervises MSc and PhD students and is joint editor and author of a textbook, "Molecular Medicine for Clinicians" (Wits University Press 2009). She is the Chair of the Wits Bioinformatics Steering Group and joint champion of a cross-faculty Research Thrust, "Molecular Biosciences: Health for Africa", which focuses on an understanding of the molecular basis of health and disease in Africans. Since 1984, she has published over 100 papers in peer reviewed journals and many book chapters on the genetic basis of single gene disorders and more recently complex diseases.
These include the molecular and genetic basis of single gene disorders, the role of genetics and epigenetics in the molecular aetiology of foetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) and other diseases of lifestyle and the impact that these conditions have on South African populations.
Single gene disorders of specific interest:
- Albinism in Africans
- Cystic fibrosis in the South African black population
- Skin disorders - keratolytic winter erythema (KWE), lipoid proteinosis and
pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE)
Complex multifactorial disorders of interest:
- Foetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD)
- XX true hermaphroditism in the southern African black population
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Diseases if lifestyle (including obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease)
Prof Michèle Ramsay,
Tel: +27 11 489 9214
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