Deqiong Ma


deqiong ma_web_resize.jpgDeqiong Ma, MD, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Genetics. She practiced for more than 5 years as a Pediatrician and later trained as an epidemiologist. She has extensive research experience in both traditional and genetic epidemiological studies on childhood developmental diseases. Her research interests focus on the genetics of autism.







Contact Information
dma@med.miami.edu
Assistant: Maggy De Tullio
Miami Institute for Human Genomics
1120 NW 14th Street
Miami, FL 33136
ph: 305-243-5381
fax: 305-243-2396

Selected Publications

First Author
  1. MA DQ, Jaworski J, Konidari I, Cuccaro ML, Gilbert JR, Pericak-Vance MA. Dissecting the Locus Heterogeneity of Autism: Significant Linkage to Chromosome 12q14: Mol Psychiatry. 2006 Dec 19.
  2. Ma DQ, Whitehead PL, Menold MM, Martin ER, Ashley-Koch AE, Mei H, DeLong GR, Abramson RK, Wright HH, Cuccaro ML, Hussman JP, Gilbert JR, Pericak-Vance MA. Identification of significant association and gene-gene interaction on GABAA receptor subunit genes in autism Am J Hum Genet 2005 Sept;77(3):377-388
  3. Ma DQ, Jaworski J, Menold M., Donnelly S, Abramson, RK, Wright, HH, Gilbert J, Pericak-Vance MA*, Cuccaro M. Ordered-Subsets Linkage Analysis on Savant Skills of Autistic Disorder In 15q11-Q13. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet. 2005. May 5;135(1):38-41
  4. Ma DQ and Jones G. Soft drink and milk consumption, physical activity, bone mass, and upper limb fractures in children: a population-based case-control study. Calcif Tissue Int. 2004 Oct;75(4):286-91.
  5. Ma DQ and Jones G. Risk-taking, coordination and upper limb fractures in children: a population based case-control study. Osteoporos Int. 2004 Aug;15(8):633-8.
  6. Ma DQ and Jones G. Television/video viewing, physical activity in upper limb fractures in children: a population based case-control study. J Bone Miner Res. 2003, 18(11): 1970-7.
  7. Ma DQ, Jones G. The association between bone mineral density, metacarpal morphometry and upper limb fractures in children: a population based case-control study. J Clin. Endo. Met. 2003, 88(4): 1486-1491.
  8. Ma DQ, Jones G. Clinical risk factors but not bone density are associated with prevalent fractures in prepubertal children. J Paediatr Child Health. 2002 Oct; 38(5): 497-500.
Co-Author
  1. Powell S, Ma D, Jones G. Determinants of skeletal age deviation in a cross-sectional study.J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2007 Dec 4
  2. Chiquet, BT, Blanton SH, Burt A, Ma DQ, Stal S, Mulliken JB, Hecht JT. Variation in WNT Genes is Associated with Nonsyndromic Cleft Lip with or without Cleft Palate. Submitted to Human Molecular Genetics.
  3. Ashley-Koch AE, Jaworski J, Ma DQ, Mei H, Ritchie MD*, Skaar DA, Delong GR, Abramson RK, Wright HH, Cuccaro ML, Gilbert JR, Martin ER, Pericak-Vance MA. Investigation of potential Gene-gene interactions between APOE and RELN contributing to autism risk. Psychiatr Genet, Aug;17(4):221-226.
  4. Collins AL, Ma DQ, Whitehead PL, Martin ER, Wright HH, Abramson RK, Hussman JP, Gilbert JR, Cuccaro ML, Pericak-Vance MA. Investigation of Autism and GABA Receptor Subunit Genes in Multiple Ethnic Groups. Neurogenetics. 2006 Jun 13
  5. Ashley-Koch AE, Mei H, Jaworski J, Ma DQ, Ritchie, M, Menold MM, Abramson R, Wright HH, Cuccaro ML, Gilbert JR, Martin ER, Pericak-Vance MA. An analysis paradigm for investigating multilocus effects in complex disease: examination of three gabaa receptor subunit genes on 15q11-q13 as risk factors for autistic disorder. Annals of Ann Hum Genet. 2006 May;70(Pt 3):281-92
  6. Mei H., Ma DQ, Ashley-Koch AE, Martin ER Extension of Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction for identifying multi-locus effects in the GAW14 simulated data. BMC genetics, 2005, 6(Suppl 1):S145.
  7. Jones G, Ma DQ, Cameron F. Bone density interpretation and relevance in Caucasian children aged 9-16 years of age: insights from a population based fracture study. Journal of Clinical Densitometry: 2006 Summer;9(2):202-9.
  8. Winzenberg, TM, Ma DQ, P Taplin, Parker A, G Jones. Synovial Haemangioma of the Knee: a Case Report. Clinical Rheumatology, Clin Rheumatol. 2005 Oct 25;1-3
  9. Jones G, Ma DQ. Skeletal age deviation: a new measure of bone mass and fracture risk in children. Bone. 2005 Feb; 36(2):352-7.
  10. Jones G, Ding CH, Glisson M, Hynes K, Ma D, Ciduttini F. Knee articular Cartilage development in children: a longitudinal study of the effect of gender, growth, tanner stage and physical activity. Pediatr Res. 2003 May; 54(2):230-6.
  11. Liu CY, Ma DQ, et al. (1993) Effect of injection Shuanghuanglian on treatment of 50 children with acute hepatitis A (AHA). Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine Research: 48:49-50.
  12. Liu CY, Ma DQ, et al. (1992) The change of OKT-cell in 30 children with acute hepatitis A (AHA) after using injection Shengmai (ISM). Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine Treatment on Liver Diseases: 4: 30-31.