Avramopoulos, Dimitrios, M.D., Ph.D.

Main Office Address

Edward D. Miller 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

Ryan Behles
Phone: 443-287-2462
E-mail: rbehles1@jhmi.edu

Education and Government Service

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.