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   Maria Proytcheva, MD
   Assistant Professor of Pathology
   Director, Hematology Laboratories        
   CMH
   Box 17
   2300 Children's Plaza
   Chicago, IL  60614

   mproytcheva@childrensmemorial.org  

Phone:  (773 )880-3985
Fax:  (773) 880-8127  

Anatomic Pathology Division
Autopsy   Sub-specialty Hematology, Sub-specialty Transfusion Medicine  
Clinical Pathology
Blood Bank   Hemostasis-Coagulation   Hematopathology   Flow Cytometry  

Medical School

Higher Medical Institute, Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1983

Site of Residency

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2001

Site of Fellowship

Yale University School of Medicine, 2003   /  Weill Medical College at Cornell University, 2002

Research Interests

Hematology, Transfusion Medicine

Selected Publications

  Ellis, N. A., Roe, A. M., Kozloski, J., Proytcheva, M., Falk, C., and German, J.: Linkage disequilibrium between the FES, D15S127, and BLM loci in Ashkenazi Jews with Bloom's syndrome. Amer. J. Hum. Genet. 55:450-460, 1994.

  Ellis, N. A., Lennon, D. J., Proytcheva, M., Alhadeff, B., Henderson, E. E., and German, J.: Somatic intragenic recombination within the mutated locus BLM can correct the high-SCE phenotype of Bloom syndrome cells. Amer. J. Hum. Genet., 57:1019-1027, 1995 .

  Ellis, N. A., Groden, J., Ye, T.-Z., Straughen,J., Lennon, D. J., Ciocci, S., Proytcheva, M., and German, J.: The Bloom's syndrome gene product is homologous to RecQ helicases. Cell, 83:655-666, 1995.

  Straughen, J., Ciocci, S., Ye, T.-Z., Lennon, D. J., Alhadeff, B., Proytcheva, M., Goodfellow, P., German, J. Ellis, N. A., and Groden, J.: Physical mapping of the Bloom's syndrome region by the identification of YAC and P1 clones from human chromosome 15 band q26.1. Genomics, 35, 118-128, 1996.

  German, J., Ellis, N. A., and Proytcheva, M.: Bloom's syndrome. XIX. Cytogenetic and population evidence for genetic heterogeneity. Clinical Genetics, 49: 223-231, 1996 .

  Straughen, J.E., Johnson, J., McLaren, D., Proytcheva, M., Ellis, N., German, J., and Groden, J.: A rapid method for detecting the predominant Ashkenazi Jewish mutation in the Bloom’s syndrome gene. Human Mutation 11:175-178, 1998.

  Ellis, N., Ciocci, S., Proytcheva, M., Lennon, D., Groden, J., and German, J.: The Ashkenazic Jewish Bloom syndrome mutation blmAsh is present in non-Jewish Americans of Spanish ancestry. Amer. J. Hum. Genet. 63: 1685-1693, 1998.

  Neff, N. F., Ellis, N., Ye, T. Z., Noonan, J., Huang, K., Sanz, M., and Proytcheva, M.: The DNA helicase activity of the BLM is necessary for the correction of the genomic instability for Bloom syndrome cells. Mol. Biol. Cell, 10:665-676, 1999.

  Ellis, N. A., Proytcheva, M., Sanz, M., Ye, T. Z. and German, J.: Transfection of BLM into cultured Bloom syndrome cells reduces the SCE rate toward normal. Amer. J. Hum. Genets.65:1368-1374, 1999.

  Sanz, M.M., Proytcheva, M., Ellis. N.A., Holloman, W.K., and German, J.L.: BLM, the Bloom's syndrome protein, varies during the cell cycle in its amount, distribution, and co-localization with other nuclear proteins. Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 91:217-223, 2000.

  Mechanic, S., Krause, D.S., Proytcheva, M., Snyder, E.L. Mobilization and collection of peripheral blood progenitor cells. In: Apheresis: Principle and Practice, Second edition, Bethesda, MD AABB Press: 503-530, 2003.

Recommended Resources

American Society of Hematology, Society for Hematopathology, American Society of Clinical Pathology, American Association of Blood Banks
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