Research Interests:

• Genetics of pulmonary disorders.

Lab Personnel

Recent Publications:

1. Tsakiri, K.D., Cronkhite, J.T., Kuan, P.J., Xing, C., Raghu, G., Weissler, J.C., Rosenblatt, R.L., Shay, J.W., and Garcia, C.K. (2007) Adult-Onset Pulmonary Fibrosis Caused by Mutations in Telomerase. PNAS, 104: 7552-7557.
2. Graham, R.B., Nolasco, M., Peterlin, B. and Garcia, C.K. (2005) Nonsense Mutations in Folliculin Presenting as Isolated Spontaneous Pneumothorax in Adults. Am. J. Resp. Crit. Care Med., 172:39-44.
3. Cohen, J., Pertsemlidis, A., Kotowski, I.K., Graham, R., Garcia, C.K., and Hobbs, H.H. (2005) Low LDL cholesterol in African Americans resulting from frequent nonsense mutations in PCSK9. Nature Genetics 37:161-165.
4. Garcia, C.K., Mues, G., Liao, Y., Hyatt, T., Patil, N., Cohen, J.C., and Hobbs, H.H. (2001) Sequence diversity in genes of lipid metabolism. Genome Res. 11:1043-1052.
5. Garcia, C.K., Wilund, K., Arca, M., Zuliani, G., Fellin, R., Maioli, M., Calandra, S., Bertolini, S., Cossu, F., Grishin, N., et al. (2001) Autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia caused by mutations in a putative LDL receptor adaptor protein. Science 292:1394-1398.

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Education:

• Texas A&M University, B.S., Chemistry, 1988
• The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, M.D., Ph.D., Medical Scientist Training Program, 1996.
• The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Internship and Residency, Internal Medicine, 2001
• The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship, 2004

Professional Positions:

• 2005 - present - Assistant Professor
• 2004 - present - Director, Human Genetics Clinical Core