PERSONAL INFORMATION


 

EDUCATION AND RELEVANT WORK HISTORY

-9 Eylul University Faculty of Medicine 1979-1985. Ph.D in Clinical Genetics Hacettepe University Children’ s Hospital 1990-1996.

SOCIETIES

- Member of European Society of Human Genetics(ESHG).-Member of European Cytogenetics Association (E.C.A) -Member of GENKOR (Genetik Hastalıklardan Koruma Derneği) and TAMG (Turkish Association of Medical Genetics).

RESEARCH

1993 Prenatal Diagnosis of the Fragile-X Sydrome, UNDP. 1998 Rapid Diagnosis of the Fragile-X Sydrome by FMRP, DPT.

PUBLICATIONS
* Tucbilek E, Alikasioglu M, Boduroglu K, Aktas D, Anar B. Frequency of fragile X syndrome among the Turkish mental retardation patients of unknown etiology.  Am J Med Genet (in press)
*  Balcı S, Aktas D. Mucinous carcinoma of the colon in a 16-year-old Turkish boy with Bloom syndrome. Cytogenetic, histopathologic, p53 gene and protein expression studies. Cancer Genet Cytogenet (in press)
* Aktas D, Ayhan A, Tuncbilek E,  No evidence for overexpression of the p53 protein and mutations in exons 4-9 of the p53 gene in a large family with adenomatous polyposis. Am J Gastro. 1998, Sep 93(9): 1524-1526
* Topaloğlu R, Aktas D, Bakkaloğlu A, Balcı S, Doğru D, Öztürk R. Diploid-triploid and  tetraploid  mosaicism in a chlid with cryptogenic cirrhosis and membranous  glomerulonephritis a causual relationship or coincidental association. Turk  J  Pediatr. 1998 Jan 40(1): 139-143
* Balcı S, Kara A, Gököz A, Köse G, Aktas  D. A Turkish case of incontinentia pigmenti with sister chromatin exchange. Turk J Dermatopathol 1997: 3-4; 89-93
*  Aktas D, Balcı S, Oruçkaptan H, Akalın N, Erbengi A, Söylemez F. Cytogenetic evolution of a meningothelial meningioma with rapid regrowing features. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics. 1997: 77(1-2); 140
* Aktas D, Balcı S.  A familial translocation involving chromosome 5 and 13.  Medizinische Genetik 1997: 9(2); 63
* Alikaşifoğlu M, Tunçbilek E, Aktaş D. Prenatal detection of aneuploidies by flourescence in situ hybridization and maternal cell contaminartion in uncultured amniotic fluid. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics. 1997: 77(1-2); 86
*  Balcı S, Beksaç S, Aktaş D, Boduroğlu  K, Kale G, Erçal D, Önol B. An unusual familial chromosomal translocation in both parents: Mother 45,XX,t(14q;21q), father 46,XY,t(1;4)(p36.1;p14). Results of ten consecutive pregnancies with
clinical, cytogenetic and postmortem findings. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics. 1997: 77(1-2); 87
*Tunçbilek E, Alikasifoglu M, Boduroğlu K, Aktas D, Anar B. Molecular diagnosis and clinical findings of Turkish patients with fragile -X syndrome. 8th International Workshop on Fragile X Syndrome & X-linked Mental Retardation. Picton, Ontario, Canada, 17-22 August 1997.
* Aktas D, Ayhan A,  Özdemir A,  Uzunalimoğlu B, Rasa K. No evidence of the p53 protein and mutations in exons 4-9 of the p53 gene in a larga family with adenomatous poyposis. Eur J Hum Genet / 4 (Supp1), 1996, 55.
*  Balcı S,  Aktas D, Çağlar M, Akçören Z, Kutluk T, Tanyel C, Ayhan A, Tınaztepe K. Mucinous carcinoma of  the colon in a 16 yr old Turkish boy with Bloom’s syndrome: cytogenetic, histopathologic, p53 gene and protein expression studies. Eur J Hum   Genet/ 4(Supp 1), 1996, 56.