Contact Information:
mtekin@med.miami.edu
Assistant: Lorenzo, Ana
1501 NW 10th Ave
Miami, FL 33136
ph: 305-243-5381
fax: 305-243-2396

 

Mustafa Tekin, M.D.

Dr. Mustafa Tekin is an Associate Professor at the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics at the University Of Miami Miller School Of Medicine in Miami, Florida. Dr. Tekin is board certified in Clinical Genetics.  Dr. Tekin received his medical degree with high honors at Ankara University School of Medicine in Ankara, Turkey. He completed clinical training in Pediatrics at the same university and in Clinical Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.  Dr. Tekin’s main area of interest in research is the genetics of hearing loss including nonsyndromic deafness as well as a broad variety of special genetic conditions associated with hearing loss such as Usher, Pendred, and branchio-oto-renal syndromes and auditory neuropathy. He has recently discovered the genetic cause of the complete absence of the inner ear (Michel aplasia) and is working on identification of genetic bases of other inner ear anomalies. He also provides clinical care for patients with von Hippel Lindau disease.

LINKS: Hussman Institute for Human Genomics

 

Selected Publications

  1. Tekin M,Yalcinkaya F,Tumer N, Akar N, Misirlioglu M, Cakar N.Clinical, laboratory, and molecular characteristics of children with familial Mediterranean fever-associated vasculitis. Acta Paediatr.2000; 89:177-82.
  2. Tekin M, Akar N, Cin S, Blanton SH, Xia XJ, Liu XZ, Nance WE, Pandya A. Connexin 26 (GJB2) mutations in the Turkish population: implications for the origin and high frequency of the 35delG mutation in Caucasians. Hum Genet.2001;108:385-9.
  3. Tekin M, Arnos KS, Pandya A. Advances in hereditary deafness. Lancet.2001;358:1082-90.
  4. Tekin M, Duman T, Bogoclu G, Incesulu A, Comak E, Fitoz S, Yilmaz E, Ilhan I, Akar N. Frequency of mtDNA A1555G and A7445G mutations among children with prelingual deafness in Turkey. Eur J Pediatr.2003;162:154-8.
  5. Tekin M, Bogoclu G, Arican ST, Orman MN, Tastan H, Elsayed S, Akar N. Evidence for single origins of 35delG and delE120 mutations in the GJB2 gene in Anatolia. Clin Genet. 2005;67:31-7.
  6. Fitoz S, Sennaroglu L, Incesulu A, Cengiz FB, Koc Y, Tekin M. SLC26A4  mutations are associated with a specific inner ear malformation. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol.2007;71:479-86.
  7. Tekin M, Hismi BO, Fitoz S, Ozdag H, Cengiz FB, Sirmaci A, Aslan I, Inceoglu B, Yuksel-Konuk B, Tasir-Yılmaz S, Yasun O, Akar A. Homozygous mutations in Fibroblast Growth Factor 3 are associated with a new form of syndromic deafness characterized by inner ear agenesis, microtia, and microdontia. Am J Hum Genet.2007;80:338-44.
  8. Tekin M, Arici ZS. Genetic epidemiological studies of congenital/prelingual deafness in Turkey: Population structure and mating type are major determinants of mutation identification.Am J Med Genet A. 2007;143: 1583-91.
  9. Tekin M, Oztürkmen Akay H, Fitoz S, Birnbaum S, Cengiz FB, Sennaroğlu L, Incesulu A, Yüksel Konuk EB, Hasanefendioğlu Bayrak A, Sentürk S, Cebeci I, Utine GE, Tunçbilek E, Nance WE, Duman D. Homozygous FGF3 mutations result in congenital deafness with inner ear agenesis, microtia, and microdontia. Clin Genet. 2008;73:554-65.
  10. Arnos KS, Welch KO, Tekin M, Norris VW, Blanton SH, Pandya A, Nance WE. A comparative analysis of the genetic epidemiology of deafness in the United States in two sets of pedigrees collected more than a century apart. Am J Hum Genet. 2008;83:200-7.