Dr. Hegde is the Professor, Human Genetics and Executive Director of Emory Genetics Laboratory. Her areas of specialty and interest are muscular dystrophy, mental retardation, and novel and high throughput methodologies to detect sequence variation. The focus of her laboratory is to develop and perform comprehensive mutation analysis and interpretation for complex or challenging genetic disorders using multiple approaches. The primary focus of her clinical work is the development of high-throughput next generation sequencing strategies for rare disorders using sequence capture technologies, robotics, whole exome and genome sequencing,oligonucleotide array platforms, robotics. Her research is focused on gene discovery and functional analysis of sequence variants in disease associated genes specifically muscular dystrophies and translating what is learned in the basic research laboratory to clinical practice. She received a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. from the University of Bombay, India, and a Ph.D. from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has post doctoral studies at Baylor College of Medicine and is board certified in Clinical Molecular Genetics. Dr. Hegde is the Professor, Human Genetics and Executive Director of Emory Genetics Laboratory. Her areas of specialty and interest are muscular dystrophy, mental retardation, and novel and high throughput methodologies to detect sequence variation. The focus of her laboratory is to develop and perform comprehensive mutation analysis and interpretation for complex or challenging genetic disorders using multiple approaches. The primary focus of her clinical work is the development of high-throughput next generation sequencing strategies for rare disorders using sequence capture technologies, robotics, whole exome and genome sequencing,oligonucleotide array platforms, robotics. Her research is focused on gene discovery and functional analysis of sequence variants in disease associated genes specifically muscular dystrophies and translating what is learned in the basic research laboratory to clinical practice. She received a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. from the University of Bombay, India, and a Ph.D. from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has post doctoral studies at Baylor College of Medicine and is board certified in Clinical Molecular Genetics.

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