University of Pittsburgh Department of Human Genetics
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Urvashi Surti
Position: Associate Professor
Office:1233 Magee Womens Hospital
Phone:412-641-4267
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Education:B.S., Microbiology, Chemistry, Bombay University, 1967
M.S., Microbiology, Carnegie Mellon University, 1969
Ph.D., Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, 1977
 


Research Interests:
Dr. Surti's research involves genetics of gynecological tumors and delineation of cytogenetic abnormalities in abnormal concpetions using molecular cytogenetic techniques including in-situ hybridization. Current projects include: 1). Genetics of trophoblastic disease including moler pregnancies and choriocarcinoma 2). Genetics of reproductive loss 3). Molecular Cytogenetics of uterine leiomyomas and leiomyosarcomas 4). Genomic imprinting in humans.
 
Recent Publications:

Follicular lymphomas with plasmacytic differentiation include two subtypes.
Joel F Gradowski, Elaine S Jaffe, Roger A Warnke, Stefania Pittaluga, Urvashi Surti, Leena A Gole, Steven H Swerdlow
Mod. Pathol. 2009 Oct

Fluorescence in situ hybridization studies on direct smears: an approach to enhance the fine-needle aspiration biopsy diagnosis of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas.
Sara E Monaco, Lisa A Teot, Raymond E Felgar, Urvashi Surti, Guoping Cai
Cancer Cytopathol 2009 Aug;117:338-348

A microarray-based approach for the identification of epigenetic biomarkers for the noninvasive diagnosis of fetal disease.
Tianjiao Chu, Brian Burke, Kimberly Bunce, Urvashi Surti, W Allen Hogge, David G Peters
Prenat. Diagn. 2009 Jul

Clinicopathologic Features of histiocytic lesions following ALL, with a review of the literature.
Eumenia Costa da Cunha Castro, Cristina Blazquez, Jaime Boyd, Hernan Correa, J-P de Chadarevian, Raymond E Felgar, Nicole Graf, Norman Levy, Eric J Lowe, John T Manning Jr, Maria Proytcheva, Christof Senger, Katayoon Shayan, Jaroslav Sterba, Alice Werner, Urvashi Surti, Ronald Jaffe
Pediatr. Dev. Pathol. 2009 Jul

Xp11.2 translocation renal cell carcinoma occurring during pregnancy with a novel translocation involving chromosome 19: a case report with review of the literature.
Henry B Armah, Anil V Parwani, Urvashi Surti, Sheldon I Bastacky
2009 ;4:15
PMC2690580    

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