| Dimitrios Avramopoulos, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor |
Main Office Address
Broadway Research Building, Room 509
733 North Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone 410-955-8323
Fax 410-955-7397
E-mail: adimitr1@jhmi.edu
Administrative Assistant
Mark Garcia Christie
Phone: 443-287-2462
E-mail: mgc@jhmi.edu
Education and Government Service
1990 | M.D. | National Capodestrian University of Athens |
1991-1993 | Research Fellowship | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine |
1995 | Ph.D. | University of Crete |
1996 | Military Service | Greece |
1999-2001 | Research Fellowship | University Mental Health Research Institute, Athens |
Professional Interests
- Genetics of complex disorders
- Genetics of Psychiatric disorders (bipolar, Alzheimer's, Schizophrenia)
- Genetic linkage mapping
- Genetic association mapping
- Positional cloning
- Gene expression analysis
Selected Publications
Avramopoulos D, Chakravarti A, and Antonarakis SE. DNA Polymorphisms in the 3' Untranslated Region of Genes on Human Chromosome 21. Genomics. 1993; 15:98-102.
Avramopoulos D, Mikkelsen M, Vassilopoulos D, Grigoriadou M, Petersen MB. Apolipoprotein E allele distribution in parents of Down's syndrome children. Lancet. 1996; 347:862-865.
Avramopoulos D, Kennerknecht I, Barbi G, Eckert D, Delabar JM, Maunoury C, Hallberg A, Petersen MB. A case of apparent trisomy 21 without the Down syndrome phenotype. Journal of Medical Genetics. 1997; 34(7):597-600.
Avramopoulos D, Stefanis NC, Hantoumi I, Smyrnis N, Evdokimidis I and Stefanis CN. Higher scores of self reported schizotypy in healthy young males carrying the COMT high activity allele. Molecular Psychiatry. 2002; 7(7):706-11.
Avramopoulos D, Willour VL, Zandi PP, Huo Y, MacKinnon DF, Potash JB, DePaulo JR Jr. and McInnis MG. Linkage of Bipolar Affective Disorder on chromosome 8q24: Follow-up and parametric analysis. Molecular Psychiatry. 2004; 9(2):191-196.
Avramopoulos D, Fallin MD, Bassett SS. Linkage to chromosome 14q in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) patients without psychotic symptoms. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychatr Genet. 2005; 132(1):9-13.
