Specialty	Clinical Genetics - MD
Clinical Interests	Cancer Genetics
	Developmental Disorders
	Dysmorphology
	Movement Disorders
	Prenatal Diagnosis
	Syndrome Diagnosis
Gender	Female
E-mail	lakshmi.mehta@mssm.edu
Education and Training	MBBS, Christian Medical College
	MD, Postgraduate Inst. of Med Ed & Research
	Internship, Rotating, Brown Memorial Hospital
	Fellowship, Pediatrics/Med Gen, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
	Fellowship, Clinical Genetics, St. George's Hospital - London, UK
	Fellowship, Hem-Clin Pathology, University College Hospital

Education and Training	MBBS, Christian Medical College
	MD, Postgraduate Inst. of Med Ed & Research
	Internship, Rotating, Brown Memorial Hospital
	Fellowship, Pediatrics/Med Gen, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
	Fellowship, Clinical Genetics, St. George's Hospital - London, UK
	Fellowship, Hem-Clin Pathology, University College Hospital
Board Certification	Clinical Genetics - MD

Specialty	Clinical Genetics - MD
Clinical Interests	Cancer Genetics
	Developmental Disorders
	Dysmorphology
	Movement Disorders
	Prenatal Diagnosis
	Syndrome Diagnosis
Board Certification	Clinical Genetics - MD

Dysmorphology, Syndrome diagnosis

Chromosome abnormalities

Prenatal Genetic Counseling and Testing

Cancer Genetics

Cardiovascular Genetics

Movement Disorders; Huntington disease testing and counseling

Thomas AC, Kelsell DP, Norgett EE, Hill T, Barton S, Dale BA, Sprecher E, Sheridan E, Taylor AE, Wilroy RS, Delozier C, Burrows N, Goodyear H, Fleckman P, Stephens KG, Mehta L, Watson RM, Graham R, Wolf R, Slavotinek A, Martin M, Bourn D, Mein CA, O'Toole EA, Cullup T. ABCA12 is the major harlequin ichthyosis gene. J Invest Dermatol 2006; 126(11): 2408-2413.

Kamnasaran D, Chen CP, Cox DW, Mehta L, Devriendt K. Defining a holoprosencephaly locus on human chromosome 14q13 and characterization of potential candidate genes. Genomics 2005; 85: 608-621.

Johnston J, Olivos-Glander I, Turner J, Aleck K, Bird LM, Biesecker LG, Schimke RN, Heilstedt H, Spence JE, Blancato J, Mehta L. Clinical and molecular delineation of the Greig cephalopolysyndactyly contiguous gene deletion syndrome and its distinction from acrocallosal syndrome. Am J Med Genet 2003; 123A: 236-242.

King MC, New York Breast Cancer Study Group , Mandell JB, Marks JH. Breast and ovarian cancer risks due to inherited mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2. Science 2003; 302: 643-646.

Young ID, Mehta L, Cook JP. Changing demography of trisomy 18. Arch Dis Child 1986; 61: 1035-1036.