Dr. Sadia Nawaz

Lecturer
Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Infection Diseases
Arabian Gulf University
Bahrain

Professor Genetics
Biography

Lecturer, College of Medicine and Medical sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain march 2010 to present -Post-Doctoral fellow, Human Molecular Genetics Laboratory, National institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, NIBGE, Faisalabad, Pakistan. (14th October, 2008 to December, 2009) -Research fellow, Rudbeck Laboratory, Laboratory of clinical Genetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. (November 2006 to October, 2008). -Internee (Lecturer), Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Agriculture University Faisalabad, Pakistan (1st October 2004 to 14th February, 2005).

Research Intrest

Micro RNA as Non-invasive reliable biomarkers -Molecular studies of Inherited disorders. -Genetic Analysis to find genetic loci associated with Nail dysplasia, Ectodermal dysplasia -Mutational analysis of Genes involved in Ichthyosis, Alopecia and mal de Meleda.

List of Publications
Fro¨jmark AS, Schuster J, Sobol M, Entesarian M, Kilander MBC, Gabrikova D, Nawaz S, Baig SM, Schulte G, Klar J, and Dahl N.. Mutations in Frizzled 6 Cause Isolated Autosomal-Recessive Nail Dysplasia. . The American Journal of Human Genetics. ;88():852-60
Khan TN, Nawaz S, Klar J, Jameel M, Tariq M, Malik NA, Baig SM, Dahl N.. Novel missense mutation in the RSPO4 gene in congenital hyponychia and evidence for a polymorphic initiation codon (p.M1I). . BMC Med Genet. ;13((1):):
Nawaz, S., Tariq, M., Ahmad, I., Malik NA, Baig, SM, Klar J. and Dahl, N. . Non-bullous congentital ichthyosiform erythroderma associated with homozygosity for a novel missense mutation in an ATP binding domain of ABCA12. European journal of dermatology: EJD ;22((2)):178-181.