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Randi J. Hagerman

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Nationality
  
United States

Alma mater
  
Randi J. Hagerman httpswwwucdmcucdavisedunewsimagesbodyHag

Fields
  
Behavior genetics, Autism Fragile X Syndrome, behavioral pharmacology

Known for
  
Fragile-X Syndrome and FXTAS

Books
  
Fragile X Syndrome: Medical and Educational Approaches Toward Intervention, Neurodevelopmental disorders

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Institution
  
University of California, Davis

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Randi J. Hagerman, M.D. is the medical director of MIND Institute at the University of California, Davis. She is internationally recognized researcher in the field of gentics of autism spectrum disorder with special focus on genomic instability. She has published many papers on the topic of repeat expansion and genetics of neurodevelopmental disorders (e.g. Fragile-X). She has discovered the Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS), a neurological disorder that affects older male and rare female carriers of fragile X.

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Awards

  • Jerrett Cole Award, National Fragile X Foundation, 1992
  • Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Award for Science including Medicine, 1993
  • Namesake (with Paul Hagerman), Hagerman Award for Research in FXTAS, International Association for the Study of Intellectual Deficiency, 2004
  • Lifetime Achievement Award, National Fragile X Foundation, 2008
  • References

    Randi J. Hagerman Wikipedia


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