Universidad del Valle. Facultad de Medicina., Medicine, 1961.

Professor of Clinical Neurology and Clinical Professor of Pathology, Neuromuscular Disorders. Clinical and molecular genetic aspects of Charcot-Marie-Tooth, muscular dystrophies and familial spastic paraparesis. Neuropathology with emphasis in the pathology of muscle and nerve. (E-MAIL add.: cgarcia2@tulane.edu)

• Saifi GM, Szigeti K, Snipes GJ, Garcia CA, Lupski JR. Molecular mechanisms, diagnosis, and rational approaches to management of and therapy for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and related peripheral neuropathies. J Investig Med. 2003 51:261-83.
• Lupski JR & Garcia CA. Charcot-Marie-Tooth disorders and related disorders. In: Molecular and Metabolic Bases of Inherited Diseases, Eight Edition. Chapter 227. 2001. Editors: Charles R. Scriver, MDCM; Arthur L. Beaudet, MD: William S. Sly, MD; David Valle, MD; Barton Childs, MD; Bert Vogelstein, MD.
• Adams, C.R., Figueroa, K.P., Zu, L., Anderson, T.L., Graves, M.C. Garcia, C.A., Pulst, S.M. Bethlem Myopathy and high incidence of Keloid Formation in a Creole Pedigree. (Submitted, Muscle and Nerve., 2001).
• Boerkoel, C.F., Takashima, H., Stankiewicz, P., Garcia, C.A., et al. periaxin mutations cause recessive Dejerine-Sottas neuropathy. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 68:325-333, 2001.
• Lupski, J.R. & Garcia C.A. Charcot-Marie-Tooth disorders and related disorders. In Molecular and Metabolic Bases of Inherited Diseases, Eight Edition. Chapter 227. Editors: Charles R. Scriver, MDCM; Arthur L. Beaudet, MD: William S. Sly, MD; David Valle, MD; Barton Childs, MD; Bert Vogelstein, MD, 2001.
• McLay, R., Klinsberg, R., Florez, L., Bhattacharjee, M., Garcia, C.A., et al. A web page to teach neurology and neuropathology to medical students. Neuropat. & Appl. Neurobiol. 27:142-144, 2001.
• Bidichandani S.I., Garcia C.A., et al Very late-onset ataxia (VLOFA) despite large GAA triplet repeat expansions. Arch. Neurol. 57:246-25, 2000.
• Gutierrez, A., England, J.D., Sumner, A.J., Ferrer, S., Warner, L.E., Lupski JR, Garcia CA. Unusual Electrophysiological Findings in X-linked Dominant Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease. Muscle Nerve 23:182-188, 2000.
• Chou F.L., Angelini C., Arahata K., Daent D., Garcia C.A., et al. Calpain III mutation analysis of LGMD population in the USA. Neurology 52:1015-1020, 1999.
• Garcia, C.A. A Clinical Review of Charcot-Marie-Tooth. In harcot-Marie-Tooth Disorders. Annals of The New York Academy of Sciences. Editors: Michael Shy, John Kamholz, Robert Lovelace. 883:69-76, 1999.
• Warner, L.E., Garcia, C.A., and Lupski, J.R. Hereditary peripheral neuropathies: Clinical forms, genetics and molecular mechanisms. Ann. Rev. Med. 50:263-275, 1999.

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