Michael Slifer


michael-slifer_web resize.jpgMichael A. Slifer, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Human Genetics. Dr. Slifer is a Psychiatrist who served as the Chief Resident of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University. He has research experience in Alzheimer disease genetics, and focuses on the molecular and clinical sub-phenotyping of genetically complex heterogeneous disorders.








Contact Information
mslifer@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

  1. Slifer MA, Martin ER, Gilbert JR, Schmechel DE, Gwirtsman HE, Haines JL, Pericak-Vance MA. Genomic Convergence in Alzheimer Disease. Biological Psychiatry, under review.
  2. Slifer MA, Haines JL, Pericak-Vance MA. Resolving the relationship between apolipoprotein e and Depression. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, under revision.
  3. Carney R, Slifer M, Gaskell P, Lin P-I, Scott W, Hulette C, Welsh-Bohmer K, Schmechel D, Vance JM, Pericak-Vance MA. Longitudinal follow-up of late-onset alzheimer disease families, American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 2007. Accepted for publication.
  4. Slifer MA, Martin ER, Bronson P, Browning-Large C, Doraiswami PM, Welsh-Bohmer KA, Gilbert JR, Haines JL, Pericak-Vance MA. Lack of Association between UBQLN1 and Alzheimer disease. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 2006 Apr 5;141(3):208-13
  5. Slifer MA, Martin ER, Haines JL, Pericak-Vance MA. The ubiquilin 1 gene and Alzheimer's disease. New England Journal of Medicine, 2005 Jun 30;352(26):2752-3.
  6. Cuccaro ML, Shao Y, Grubber J, Slifer MA, Wolpert CM, Donnelly SL, Abramson RK, Ravan SA, Wright HH, DeLong GR, Pericak-Vance MA. Factor analysis of restricted and repetitive behaviors in autism using the Autism Diagnostic Interview-R. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2003 Fall;34(1):3-17.
  7. Rogers J, Mahaney MC, Witte SM, Nair S, Newman D, Wedel S, Rodrigquez LA, Rice KS, Slifer SH, Perelygin A, Slifer MA, Palladino-Negro P, Newman T, Chambers K, Joslyn G, Parry P, Morin PA. A genetic linkage map of the baboon (Papio hamadryas) genome based on human microsatellite polymorphisms. Genomics, 2000 Aug 1;67(3):237-47.