Bronya J. B. Keats, PhD

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	Bronya J. B. Keats, PhD Emeritus Professor of Genetics 533 Bolivar Street New Orleans, LA 70112 Phone: (504) 568-7932 Fax: (504) 568-8500 bkeats@lsuhsc.edu
Degrees	BSc - 1973 Australian National University PhD Human Population Genetics - 1976 Australian National University
Bio	Dr. Bronya Keats is Professor and Chair of the Department of Genetics, and is the Director of the Molecular and Human Genetics Center at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center. She received her Ph.D. in Human Genetics from the Australian National University in 1976, and spent several postdoctoral years at the University of Hawaii before accepting a faculty position at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in 1982. Dr. Keat has served on numerous NIH Student Sections and Working Groups; in particular, she was a member of the National Deafness and other Communication Disorders Advisory Council from 1995-1999, and a member of the NIH National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research from 2000-2005. Additionally, she recently completed her two-year term as President of the Association of Professors of Human and Medical Genetics. Dr. Keats' major research area is identifying and characterizing genes that cause hearing loss, in particular, Usher syndrome and nonsyndromic deafness, as well as neurodegenerative diseases such as the hereditary ataxias. Much of her research involves the participation of Acadian families in southwestern Louisiana. In addition to this research, she is also involved in community outreach and education programs to enhance medical care in this underserved population.
Research Interests	Genetic Disorders in the Acadian Population Genetics of Deafness and Hearing Impairment in mouse and man Human and Mouse Gene Mapping Segregation and Linkage Analysis of Hereditary Diseases Genetic Structure of Populations
Teaching Activities	Human and Medical Genetics in Audiology Population Genetics Genetic Epidemiology
Selected Publications	Pollard LM, Sharma R, Gomez M, Shah S, Delatycki MK, Pianese A, Monticelli A, Keats BJB, Bidichandani SI, Replication-mediated instability of th GAA triplet repeat mutation in Friedreich ataxia, Nucleic Acids Research 32:5962-5971, (2004). Lentz J, Savas S, Ng S-S, Athas G, Deininger, PL, Keats BJB, The USH1C 216G>A splice site mutation results in a 35 base pair deletion, Human Genetics 116:225-27, (2005). Cheng, X., Li, L., Brashears, S., Morlet, T., Ng, S-S, Berlin, CI, Hood, LJ, Keats, BJB, Connexin 26 variants and Auditory Neuropathy/Dys-synchrony among children in schools for the Deaf, Am J Med Genet 139A:13-18, (2005). Varga, R., Avenarius, MR, Kelley, PM, Keats, BJB., Berlin, CI, Hood, LJ, Morlet, TG, Brashears, SM, Starr, A., Cohn, ES, Smith, RJH, Kimberling, WJ, OTOF mutations revealed by genetic analysis of hearing loss families including a potential temperature-sensitive auditory neuropathy allele., J Med Genet 43:576-581, (2006). Keats BJB, Berlin, CI, Gregory, P, Epidemiology of Genetic Hearing Loss, Seminars in Hearing 27:136-147, (2006).
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Emeritus Professor of Genetics