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Zubair M. Ahmed, PhD

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone: 513-636-4718

Fax: 513-803-0740

Email: zubair.ahmed@cchmc.org

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Education and Training

Research fellow: Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, NIDCD, NIH, Rockville, MD, 2003-2009.

Postdoctoral fellow: Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, NIDCD, NIH, Rockville, MD, 2002-2003.

Pre-doctoral fellow: Laboratory of Molecular Genetics, National institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Rockville, MD, 2000-2002.

Publications

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Riazuddin S, Ahmed ZM, Hegde RS, Khan SN, Nasir I, Shaukat U, Riazuddin S, Butman JA, Griffith AJ, Friedman TB, Choi BY. Variable expressivity of FGF3 mutations associated with deafness and LAMM syndrome. BMC Med Genet. 2011 Feb 9;12:21.

Ahmed ZM, Yousaf R, Lee BC, Khan SN, Lee S, Lee K, Husnain T, Rehman AU, Bonneux S, Ansar M, Ahmad W, Leal SM, Gladyshev VN, Belyantseva IA, Van Camp G, Riazuddin S, Friedman TB, Riazuddin S. Functional null mutations of MSRB3 encoding methionine sulfoxide reductase are associated with human deafness DFNB74. Am J Hum Genet. 2011 Jan 7;88(1):19-29.

Friedman TB, Schultz JM, Ahmed ZM, Tsilou ET, Brewer CC. Usher syndrome: hearing loss with vision loss. Adv Otorhinolaryngol. 2011;70:56-65.

Rehman AU, Morell RJ, Khan SY, Belyantseva IA, Boger ET, Shahzad M, Ahmed ZM, Riazuddin S, Khan SN, Riazuddin S, Friedman TB. Targeted Capture and Next-Generation Sequencing of the 2.9 Megabase DFNB79 Locus Identifies Mutations in C9orf75, Encoding TAPERIN, as a Cause of Nonsyndromic Deafness. Am J Hum Genet. 2010 Mar 12;86(3):378-88.

Khan SY, Riazuddin S, Shahzad M, Ahmed N, Zafar AU, Rehman A, Griffith AJ, Ahmed ZM, Riazuddin S, Friedman TB. DFNB79: reincarnation of a nonsyndromic deafness locus on chromosome 9q34.3. Eur J Hum Genet. 2010;18(1):125-9.

Schultz JM, Khan SK, Ahmed ZM, Riazuddin S, Waryah AA, Chhatre D, Starost MF, Ploplis B, Buckley S, Velasquez D, Kabra M, Lee K, Hassan MJ, Ali G, Ansar M, Ghosh M, Wilcox ER, Ahmad W, Merlino G, Leal SM, Riazuddin S, Friedman TB, Morell RJ. Noncoding mutations of HGF3 are associated with nonsyndromic recessive deafness, DFNB39. American J Hum Genet. 2009;85(1):25-39.

Waryah AM, Rehman A, Ahmed ZM, Bashir ZH, Khan SY, Zafar AU, Riazuddin S, Friedman TB, Riazuddin S. DFNB74, a novel autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing impairment locus on chromosome 12q14.2-q15. Clinical Genetics. 2009;76(3):270-5.

Khan SY, Riazuddin S, Shahzad M, Ahmed N, Zafar AU, Rehman A, Griffith AJ, Ahmed ZM, Riazuddin S, Friedman TB. DFNB79: reincarnation of a nonsyndromic deafness locus on chromosome 9q34.3. Eur J Hum Genet. 2009. Available online.

Riazuddin S, Anwar S, Janssen A, Ahmed ZM, Khan SY, Belyantseva I, Jochen E, Friedman PL, Riazuddin S, Fahlke C, Friedman TB. Molecular basis of DFNB73: mutations of BSND are associated with nonsyndromic deafness or Bartter syndrome. Am J Hum Genet. 2009;85:1-8.

Ahmed ZM, Riazuddin S, Khan S, Friedman P, Riazuddin S, Friedman TB. USH1H, a novel locus for type I Usher syndrome, maps to chromosome 15q22-23. Clin Genet. 2009;75:86-91.