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Alpa Sidhu, MBBS, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor

Current Positions

  • Clinical Associate Professor, Stead Family Department of Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics & Genomics
  • Clinical Director, Division of Medical Genetics and Genomics
  • Program Director, Medical Genetics and Genomics Residency (MGG) and combined Pediatrics & MGG Residency

Education

  • PhD in Genetics, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
  • Combined Pediatrics & Medical Genetics Program in Pediatrics and Genetics, Children's Hospital of Michigan / Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States
  • Doctor, Grant Medical College and Sir J.J. Group Hospitals, Mumbai

Licenses & Certifications

  • ABMGG (American Board of Medical Genetics & Genomics) Board Certified
  • ABP (American Board of Pediatrics) Board Certified
  • Clinical Genetics, ABMGG, United States
  • Pediatrics - ABP, United States

Selected Publications

  • Linshan, S., Cho, M., Retterer, K., Folk, L., Humberson, J., Rohena, L., Sidhu, A., Saliganan, S., Iglesias, A., Vitazka, P., Juusola, J., Donnell-Luria, A., Shen, Y. & Chung, W. Mutations in ARID2 are associated with intellectual disabilities. Neurogenetics 16 (4) 307-14. DOI: 10.1007/s10048-015-0454-0. PMID: 26238514.
  • Sidhu, A., Bhambhani, K. & Callaghan, M. Novel mutations in the von Hippel- Lindau gene associated with polycythemia. Pediatric Blood and Cancer 62 (6) 1113-4. DOI: 10.1002/pbc.25407. PMID: 25586603.
  • Liu, Y., Sidhu, A., Bean, L. H., Conway, R. L. & Fridovich-Keil, J. L. Genetic and functional studies reveal a novel noncoding variant in GALT associated with a false positive newborn screening result for galactosemia. Clin Chim Acta 446 171-4. DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2015.04.030. PMID: 25920691. PMCID: PMC4449829.
  • Sidhu, A., Bhambhani, K., Hankerd, M., Kristofice, M. & Ebrahim, S. Co-occurrence of Xp21 microduplication encompassing the DMD locus in conjunction with 17p12/PMP22 microduplication in a female with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A. (Vols. 16). pp. 199-204. The Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmhg.2014.12.002.
  • Sidhu, A. & Misra, V. K. Dermal Melanocytosis: More than Meets the Eye. The Journal of Pediatrics 165 (5) 1060. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2014.06.016. PMID: 25027364.
  • Sidhu, A., Debelenko, L. & Misra, V. K. Infantile Adrenocortical Tumor with an activating GNAS1 mutation. Journal of Molecular Endocrinology and Metabolism 98 (1) E115-8. DOI: 10.1210/jc.2012-2933. PMID: 23105121.
  • Sidhu, A., Miller, P. J. & Hollenbach, A. D. Isolation of putative FOXO1 genomic elements using an improved in vitro technique to isolate genomic regulatory elements. Gene (458) 45-53. PMID: 20338229. PMCID: PMC3126678.
  • Sidhu, A., Miller, P. J. & Hollenbach, A. D. FOXO1 stimulates Ceruloplasmin promoter activity in human hepatoma cells treated with IL-6. (404), pp. 963-967. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. PMID: 21185807. PMCID: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.12.089.
  • Sidhu, A., Miller, P. J., Johanson, K. E. & Hollenbach, A. D. Novel flanking DNA sequences enhance FOXO1a binding affinity but do not affect DNA bending. Biochemistry 47 (6) 6809-18. DOI: 10.1021/bi702495m. PMID: 18537265.