Curriculum Vitae
Education
6/1978 B.Sc., Biology, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.
8/1982 M.Sc., Zoology/Systematic and evolutionary biology, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.
5/1986 Ph.D., Zoology/Genetics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.
12/1998 Clinical molecular genetics fellowship, Duke University, Durham, NC
6/1991 Clinical cytogenetics fellowship. Department of Pediatrics, Univ. Tenn., Memphis.
Career
9/1985 to 12/1985 Rea postdoctoral fellowship (Conferred predoctorally). Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA.
6/1986 to 6/1988 Postdoctoral immunology fellowship. Department of Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX.
6/1987 to 6/1989 Journey research fellowship. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN. Work on mechanisms of gene amplification.
1/1988 to 7/1993 Adjunct Asst Professor, Department of Biology, Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee. Also taught a course on Embryology.
7/1989 to 6/1991 Clinical cytogenetics fellowship. Department of Pediatrics, Univ. Tenn., Memphis.
7/1989 to 7/1991 Consultant, Dept. Pharmacology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee. Collaboration with D. P. Suttle, Ph.D.
1/1990 to 1998 Research Associate at the Section of Mammals, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
7/1991 to 12/1993 Director & Department Head, Cytogenetics Laboratory, T. C. Thompson Children’s Hospital, Erlanger Medical Center, and Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, UT College of Medicine, Chattanooga, Tennessee. Duties include directing all aspects of the laboratory including budgeting, quality control, starting new procedures, expanding services, personnel management, resource allocation, resident and medical student teaching, research, community service, and consultation.
1/1994 to 8/1994 Interim Director (off-site), Cytogenetics Laboratory, T. C. Thompson Children’s Hospital, Erlanger Medical Center, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
1/1994 to 11/1999 Director, Cytogenetics Services & Associate Clinical Professor (promoted 1995), Departments of Pathology, Pediatrics, OB/GYN, and Genetics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC. Duties include service, research, teaching, and administration. This includes directing all aspects of the laboratory including quality control, starting new procedures, expanding services, personnel management, and resource allocation. During these years, through expansion and consolidation, the laboratory increased its volume from 550 specimens/year to 1800/year, TAT decreased for amnios from 2-3 weeks to average 7.1 days, bone marrows and blood from 2-3 weeks to 3 days average. During my six-year tenure, the laboratory revenue to expense ratio went from 0.9 to 2.35.
1/1998 to 12/1998 Clinical molecular genetics fellowship, Duke University, Durham, NC
11/1999 to Dec 2004 Director, Cytogenetics Services & Associate Professor Department of Genetics, Yale University, New Haven, CT. Service, teaching, and research in all aspects of genetics. Member, Yale Cancer Center. Volume in the lab grew over 40% in the past four years.
7/2006-4/08 Consultant Director, University Pathology, Reference Laboratory, 4 Skyline Dr., Hawthorne, NY 10532. Included directing cytogenetics lab operations and training/giving talks at Westchester Medical Center to Pathology residents.
Jan 2005 to Date: Laboratory Director, SiParadigm Laboratory Informatics, Oradell, NJ
Board Certification
1993 American Board of Medical Genetics (Clinical Cytogenetics). Recertified 2003.
1999 American Board of Medical Genetics (Clinical Molecular Genetics)
2004 State of New York Laboratory Director Certificate (Cytogenetics)
Honors or Recognition
1998 Elected President of the Middle East Genetics Society
5/1984 Outstanding graduate student teaching award, Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University.
7/1979 University of Connecticut scholarship for outstanding graduate students.
6/1978 Royal award for best student in the biology department at the graduation ceremony of 1978 (Jordan University).
8/1974 Jordan Ministry of Education scholarship for an undergraduate study at Jordan University covering all expenses.
Society Affiliation
American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
Association of Genetic Technologists (AGT)
Middle East Genetics Association (MEGA), ex-president
Association of Arab-American University Graduates (AAUG)
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)
Committees Served/Graduate Students Supervised
10/1995- 11/1999 Member of the Basic Sciences Faculty Committee, Duke University.
1/1994-11/1999 Member of the Medical Genetics Training Committee, Dept Pediatrics, Duke Universoty Medical Center.
10/1993-6/1995 Member of the M.S. Faculty Advisory Committee for Cara Bergman. Thesis: Chromosome variation in Blarina carolinensis and B. brevicauda.
6/1989-9/1992 Member of the M.S. Faculty Advisory Committee for Diana M. Adams Garland at Memphis State University (Expected date of graduation, June, 1991). Thesis title: Chromosome and electrophoretic variation in Blarina carolinensis and B. brevicauda in Tennessee (Mammalia: Insectivora).
6/1987-12/1989 Member of the Ph.D. Faculty Advisory Committee for George D. Baumgardner at Memphis State University. Dissertation title: Morphological Variation in Kangaroo rats (Genus Dipodomys): I. Individual nongeographic variation and character relationships, II. Geographic pattern of size and a test of Bergmann's rule for selected species, III. Genus-wide variation and species discrimination.
6/1984-6/1988 Member of the International Committee of the American Society of Mammalogists.
8/1980-9/1981 Member, International Center Advisory Board, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.
Teaching:
3/1978-6/1979 Bethlehem Secondary School, Bethlehem, and the Schmitz Girls College, Jerusalem. Biology teacher of 10th, 11th, and 12th grades. 20 hours/week, average 35 students/class.
8/1980 to 6/82 Department of Biology, the University of Connecticut. Taught Vertebrate Anatomy, General Biology, Botany labs. Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech. Average 6 hrs/week, 20-25 students/class.
9/1983-5/1984 Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University. Taught General Zoology, Botany, and Advanced
1/85-9/85 Animal Physiology labs. Eight hours/week, average 20 students/class.
1/1986 to 5/1986 Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University. Graduate Cytogenetics lab. Two hrs/week, 15 students.
11/1988 to 6/1991 Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology, Memphis State University (now University of Memphis), Memphis, Tennessee. Taught Vertebrate Embryology, Upper Level in Spring, 1989. Four hours a week, 38 students.
1/1990-1/1991 The University of Tennessee-Memphis. Medical Genetics and Medical Technology students. Total 4 lectures, 45 students.
7/1991- 2/1993 The University of Tennessee College of Medicine. Many Lectures and Seminars to staff, techs, residents, and physicians.
1/1994-11/1999 Duke University Medical Center. Taught medical genetics course to medical students (3 lectures on cytogenetics), 2 lectures in the Molecular Pathology Course, lecture to Path 200 (Medical Students), lecture to Technologhist Program (3 hours, Spring), and many other invited lectures and seminars (average 6 per month) to various Duke departments.
1/1994 -11/1999 Duke University Medical Center. Organized weekly lecture on issues in cytogenetics (60% of lectures given, 40% by invited speakers). These lecturesare open to residents, fellows, staff physicians, and lab techs and cover all areas of molecular genetics and cytogenetics.
9/1995-9/1999 Society of Clinical Research Associates, Duke University Medical Center. 2 hour lecture for each session (2-3 times per year).
1/2000 to 12/2004 Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Genetics. Cytogenetics for Medical students in the genetics course (second year). Clinical rounds (occasional lectures). Supervise rotating fellows and residents. Actively participates in weekly hematopathology and radiation oncology case conferences. Occasional talks at other departments and departmental Journal Club.
Peace Activism Positions
- Board Member, Peace Action Education Fund (2008-2009)
- Steering Committee Member of the US Campaign to End the Occupation (2005-07)
- Board Member, Association for One Democratic State in Israel/Palestine (2005-07)
- Media Coordinator, Palestinian American Congress, CT Chapter
- Ex-President of the Middle East Genetics Association http://info.med.yale.edu/genetics/clinical/lab_services/mega
- Media Coordinator, Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee in North Carolina, Won the Jallow activism award from ADC national in 1998
- Cofounder and ex-national treasurer and ex-media coordinator of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition (see http://al-awda.org). (2000-04)
- Cofounder of the http://AcademicsFor Justice.org and http://BoycottIsraeliGoods.org campaigns.
- Organizer for the Wheels of Justice Tour http://justicewheels.org
- Vice President of the Middle East Crisis Committee http://TheStruggle.org (2003-date)
- Founder and president of the Holy Land Conservation Foundation
- Coordinator with others for the Oral History Project http://www.palestineremembered.com/oralhistory/
- Member of a number of human rights groups (Amnesty, Peace action, Human Rights Watch, ACLU etc.).
Service
1974 to1978 Part-time curator for the vertebrate collections at Jordan University and at Sana Atallah Natural History Museum.
1977-78 Treasurer for Biology Club, Jordan University.
4/1980 to 8/1980 Part-time curatorial assistant at the University of Connecticu Museum of Natural History. Included specimen preparation and other curatorial activities in Vertebrates.
8/1980-9/1981 Member, International Center Advisory Board, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut.
6/1983 to9/1983 Graduate research assistant, Texas Tech University. Research title: "Genetics of the endangered Utah Prairie Dog, Cynomys parvidens."
6/1984 to 12/1985 Research assistant, Texas Tech University, in charge of maintaining the living and frozen cell lines as well as initiating primary cell lines from varioustaxa and obtaining the G- and C-band data on this material. Also served as laboratory supervisor for Prof. R. J. Baker's Program.
6/1984-6/1988 Member of the International Committee of the American Society of Mammalogists.
1984-85 Vice President for Graduate Student Biology Club, Texas Tech University.
6/1985 to 2000 Reviewer for grant proposals for the National Science Foundations, and manuscripts submitted for Journal of Mammalogy, Journal of Heredity,Mammalian Genome, Chromosome Research, Mammalia, Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Occasional Papers of the Museum of Texas Tech Univ., and Texas J. Sci.
6/1987-12/1989 Member of the Ph.D. Faculty Advisory Committee for George D. Baumgardner at Memphis State University. Dissertation title: Morphological Variation in Kangaroo rats (Genus Dipodomys): I. Individual nongeographic variation and character relationships, II. Geographic pattern of size and a test of Bergmann'srule for selected species, III. Genus-wide variation and species discrimination.
6/1989-9/1992 Member of the M.S. Faculty Advisory Committee for Diana M. Adams Garland at Memphis State University (Expected date of graduation, June, 1991). Thesis title: Chromosome and electrophoretic variation in Blarina carolinensis and B. brevicauda in Tennessee (Mammalia: Insectivora).
10/1993-6/1995 Member of the M.S. Faculty Advisory Committee for Cara Bergman. Thesis: Chromosome variation in Blarina carolinensis and B. brevicauda.
1/1994-11/1999 Member of the Medical Genetics Training Committee, Dept Pediatrics, Duke Universoty Medical Center.
7/1995-11/1999 Cytogenetics member of CALGB (Cancer and Leukemias Group B). Attended meeting in Miami, Florida (3-6 May, 1996), Ft. Lauderdale, FL(28 June 1998) and have been a participant cytogeneticist since July 1995.
10/1995- 11/1999 Member of the Basic Sciences Faculty Committee, Duke University.
2/1996-Present Inspector, CAP (College of American Pathologists) Inspector number 1007340.
10/1996-Present Founder & ex-President for Middle East Geneticists of America (MEGA): A non-profit organizations with meetings in conjunction with annual ASHG as well as involved in International Development of Genetic Health Services.
10/1996- Present Founder and president for Holy Land Conservation Foundation, A non-profit organization for environmental and historical preservation. Now President.
Trainees
Yesim Yilmaz, MD Fellow in cytogenetics. July 2001- May 2004.
Peining Li, Ph.D. Fellow in cytogenetics. January, 2000- Feb 2001.
Manjunath Nimmakayalu, Ph.D. Fellow in cytogenetics. January, 2000- date.
Kyu-Rae Kim, MD, visitor from South Korea for research on Ob/Gyn pathology and genetics. From July 1997 to June 1998. Currently faculty member, Asan Medical Center, Universitu of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, S. Korea.
Xiao-Xiang Zhang, MD,PhD, for reserarch & certification by the ABMG in Clinical Cytogenetics, July 1996 to July 1998. Currently FACMG, Asst. Lab Director, Smith Kline Labs, California.
Howida Hosny El-Gebaly, M.D. for reserarch & certification by the ABMG in Clinical Cytogenetics, April 1996 to April 1998. Currently faculty at Ain Shams Univ., Egypt.
Shannon Dover, senior biology major, COSEN fellow, for summer research experience, paper published. July-Sept. 1997. Currently Medical Student in South Carolina.
Mohamed Nagy Ahmed, M.D. for reserarch & certification by the ABMG in Clinical Cytogenetics, July 1995 to July 1997. Currently, Neonatology, Duke Univ. Med. Ctr.
Siddharth Adhvaryu, Ph.D. April 1994-June, 1996. Presently FACMG, Director of Cytogenetics, Center for Genetic Services, Corpus Christi, TX.
Jessie Levine, Ph.D. for certification by the ABMG in Clinical Cytogenetics. April 1994 to November, 1995. Presently recouperating from major car accident in Canada.
Jennifer L. Coate, senior biology major, COSEN fellow, for summer research experience, paper published. July-Sept. 1996. Presently medical student.
Ayman Al Sulaiman, Technologist from Saudi Arabia for training in cytogenetics (Saudi/DUMC agreements), July 1995 to July 1996. Presently senior tech in Saudi Arabia.
Nasser Al Helali, M.D. for research in cytogenetics and for ABMG in Clin. Genetics, January 1994 to January, 1996. Presently staff at Chicago Children’s Hospital.
Amal Atared, technologist from Saudi Arabia for training in cytogenetics (Saudi/DUMC agreements), March 1996. Presently back in Saudi Arabia.
Hui-Min Li, RN. Genetic counselor from Taiwan for training in cytogenetics, Feb-March 1996. Now enrolled in a degree program at Johns Hopkins.
Trained and supervised numerous fellows and residents for short (1 week) to intermediate (1 month) training in genetics and cytogenetics.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Peer Reviewed Original Research
Qumsiyeh, M. B. New records of bats from Jordan.Säugetierk. Mitt. 1980, 28(1): 36-39.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. and D. A. Schlitter. Bat records from Mauritania, Africa (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1981, 50(13):345-351.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. and D. A. Schlitter. The bat fauna of Jabal al Akhdar, North East Libya. Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1982, 51(19):377-389.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. Occurrence and zoogeographical implications of Myotis blythi (Tomes, 1857) in Libya. Mammalia (Paris), 1983, 47(3):429-430.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. and R. J. Baker. G- and C-banded karyotypes of the Rhinopomatidae (Microchiroptera). Journal of Mammalogy, 1985, 66:541-544.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. Phylogenetic studies of the rodent family Gerbillidae: I. Chromosomal evolution in the southern African group. Journal of Mammalogy, 1986, 67:680-692.
Qumsiyeh, M. B., D. A. Schlitter, and A. M. Disi. New records and karyotypes of small mammals from Jordan. Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde, 1986, 51:139-146.
Schlitter, D. A., I. R. Aggundey, M. B. Qumsiyeh, K. Nelson, and R. L. Honeycutt. Taxonomic and distributional records on bats from Kenya. Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1986, 55(12):297-302.
Qumsiyeh, M. B., M. J. Hamilton, and D. A. Schlitter. Problems of using Robertsonian rearrangements in determining monophyly: examples from the genera Tatera and Gerbillurus.Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, 1987, 44:198-208.
Owen, R. D. and M. B. Qumsiyeh. The subspecies problem in the trident leaf-nosed bat, Asellia tridens: homomorphism in widely separated populations. Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde, 1987, 6:329-337.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. and R. K. Chesser. Rates of protein, chromosome, and morphologic evolution in four genera of Rhombomyine gerbils. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 1988, 16(1):89-103.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. Pattern of heterochromatic variation and phylogeny in the rodent family Gerbillidae. Texas Journal of Science, 1988, 40:63-70.
Qumsiyeh, M. B., R. J. Baker, S. Davis, J. C. Patton, and C. S. Hernandez.
Chromosomal evolution in Geomys as revealed by G- and C-band studies. Southwestern Naturalist , 1988, 33(1):1-13.
Qumsiyeh, M. B., R. D. Owen, and R. K. Chesser. Differential rates of protein and chromosome evolution in bats of the family Rhinolophidae.Genome, 1988, 30:326-335.
Baker, R. J., M. B. Qumsiyeh, and I. L. Rautenbach. Evidence for eight tandem and five centric fusions in the karyotype of Aethomys namaquensis. Genetica, 1988, 76:161-169.
Qumsiyeh, M. B., M. B. Valentine, and D. P. Suttle. Localization of the gene for uridine monophosphate synthase to human chromosome region 3q13 by in situ hybridization. Genomics, 1989, 5:160-162.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. Chromosomal fissions and phylogenetic hypotheses: Cytogenetic and allozymic variation between species of Meriones (Rodentia, Gerbillidae).Occasional Papers of the Musuem, Texas Tech Univ., 1989, 132:1-16.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. and D. P. Suttle. Cytogenetic analysis of amplification and deamplification of UMP synthase gene in Chinese hamster cells. Somatic Cell and Molecular Genetics, 1989, 15:503-512.
Qumsiyeh, M. B., S.W. King, J. Arroyo-Cabrales, I. R. Aggundey, D. A. Schlitter, R. J. Baker, and K.J. Morrow. Complex chromosomal and immunological evolution in the morphologically similar species of murid rodents of the Mastomys/Praomys Complex. Journal of Heredity, 1990, 81(1):58-65.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. and D. P. Suttle. Localization of the adenosine deaminase, transferrin, and UMP synthetase genes on Chinese hamster chromosomes 4 and 6 by
in situ hybridization. Journal of Heredity, 1990, 81(2):111-116.
Pivnick, E. K., M. B. Qumsiyeh, A. T. Tharapel, J. B. Summitt, R. S. Wilroy. Partial duplication of the long arm of chromosome 6: a clinically recognizable syndrome. Journal of Medical Genetics, 1990, 27:523-526.
Qumsiyeh, M. B., A. T. Tharapel, L. P. Shulman, S. E. Elias, and J. L. Simpson. Anaphase lag as the most likely mechanism for monosomy X in direct cytotrophoblasts but not in mesenchymal core cells from the same villi. Journal of Medical Genetics, 1990, 27:780-781.
Qumsiyeh, M. B., J. N. Peeden, R. S. Wilroy, and A. T. Tharapel. High resolution replication banding combined with in situ hybridization for the delineation of a subtle chromosome rearrangement. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 1991, 41:99-101.
Qumsiyeh, M.B., E. D. Dempster, M. J. Hamilton and R. J. Baker. Cytogenetics and systematics of the rodent genus Gerbillurus. Journal of Mammalogy, 1991, 72(1):89-96.
Tharapel, A. T., M. B. Qumsiyeh, P. R. Martens, S. A. Tharapel, J. D. Dalton, J. C. Ward, and R. S. Wilroy. Identification of the origins of centromeres in whole-arm translocations using fluorescent in situ hybridization with alpha satellite DNA probes. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 1991, 40: 117-120.
Tharapel, S. A., M. B. Qumsiyeh, and G. Photopulos. Numerical chromosome abnormalities associated with early clinical stages of gynecologic tumors. Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics. 1991, 55:89-96.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. Karyotype of the East European hedgehog, Erinaceus concolor from Jordan. Zeitschrift für Säugetierkundliche. 1991, 56:375-377.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. Letter to the editor. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 1991, 34(4):468-469.
Qumsiyeh, M. B., J. D. Dalton, P. L. Gordon, R. S. Wilroy, and A. T. Tharapel. Deletion of chromosome 15pter?q11.2 due to t(Y;15) in a boy with Prader-Willi syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics 1992, 42:109-111.
Qumsiyeh, M. B., J. D. Dalton, P. L. Gordon, R. S. Wilroy, and A. T. Tharapel. Response to Zelante et al. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 1992, 44:846.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. and S. A. Tharapel. Detection of trisomy 12 in chronic lymphocytic leukemia using fluorescence in situ hybridization. Leukemia. 1992, 6(6): 602-605.
Qumsiyeh, M. B., Z. S. Amr, and A. M. Disi. Systematics and distribution of the bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Jordan. Dirasat (Jordan Univ. Publications). 1992, 9B(2):101-118.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. S. Goorha, and D. P. Suttle. Gene amplification and chromosome rearrangements: a study of a single cell lineage selected for amplification and deamplification of the UMP synthase gene. Cytogenetics Cell Genet., 1993, 62:162-168.
Qumsiyeh, M. B., Z. S. Amr, and D. M. Shafi. Status and conservation of the carnivores of Jordan (Mammalia: Carnivora). Mammalia. 1993, 57(1):55-62.
Amr, Z. S. and Qumsiyeh, M. B. Records of bat flies from Jordan, Libya, and Algeria. Entomological News. 1993, 104(1):43-46.
Qumsiyeh, M. B., and C. A. Stevens. Two siblings with different phenotypes due to adjacent-1 segregation of a submicroscopic translocation t(4;5)(p16.3;p15.31)mat. Am. J. Med. Genet. 1993, 47:387-391.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. Distal limb anomalies, Robin sequence and deletions in 4q31-->qter (letter to the editor). Am. J. Med. Genet. 1993, 49:255.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. and J. W. Bickham. Chromosomes and relationships of long eared bats of the genera Plecotus and Otonycteris. Journal of Mammalogy. 1993, 74(2):376-382.
Benkhalifa, M., P. Malet, M. B. Qumsiyeh, D. Boucher, V. Belliec, Y. Menzo. Chromosome aberrations in normal and translocated human sperm: role in reproduction pathology. Referens. Geneo. Obstet. 1994, 2(3):288-296.
Johnson, D. W., M. B. Qumsiyeh, M. Benkhalifa, and D. Marchuk. Assignment of human transforming growth factor ? type I and type III receptor genes (TGF?R1 and TGF?R3) to 1p32-33 and 9q33q34. Genomics, 1995, 28:356-357.
Taiar, N., M. B. Qumsiyeh, J. Poulet, M. Benkhalifa. Delineation of translocation X;Y using DNA probes. Ann. Genet. 1995, 38(2):102-105.
Stevens, C. A. and M. B. Qumsiyeh. Syndromal frontonasal dysostosis in a child with a complex translocation involving chromosomes 3, 7, and 11. Am. J. Med. Genet. 1995, 55:494-497.
Teebi, A. S., M. B. Qumsiyeh, C. H. Meyers-Seifer, M. S. Neyn. Velo-facio-skeletal syndrome in a mother and daughter. Am. J. Med. Genet. 1995, 58: 8-12.
Qumsiyeh, M. B., A. Tomasi, and M. M. Taslimi. Short arm deletion and isochromosome 18 formation detected at amniocentesis.J. Med Genet. 1995, 32(12):991-993.
Helali, A. N., A. K. Iafolla, and M. B. Qumsiyeh. A case of duplication of 13q32-->qter with mild phenotype: Patau syndrome and duplications of 13q revisited. J. Med. Genet. 1996, 33:600-602.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. and J. A. Peppers. Sensitivity and specificity of whole chromosome paint (WCP) probes are correlated with the size of translocated segments. Am. J. Med. Genet., 1996, 65:173.
Benkhalifa, M., Y. Menezo, L. Janny, J. L. Pouly, and M. B. Qumsiyeh. Cytogenetics of uncleaved oocytes and arrested zygotes in IVF programs. J. Assisted Repr. & Genetics. 1996, 13(2):140-148.
Qumsiyeh, M. B., J. L. Coate, J. A. Peppers, P. K. Kennedy, M. L. Kennedy. Robertsonian chromosomal rearrangements in the short-tailed shrew, Blarina carolinensis in western Tennessee. Cytogenet Cell Genet. 1997, 76:153-158.
DeCastro, C. M., S. M. Rabe, S. D. Langdon, D. E. Fleenor, M. N. Ahmed, M. B. Qumsiyeh, R. E. Kaufman. Genomic structure and chromosomal localization of PE-2 (ERF), a novel ETS factor with potential tumor suppressor properties.Genomics., 1997, 42:200-207.
Byrd, J.C., R. W. Weiss, D. C. Arthur, D. Shah, M. R. Baer, D. Laurence, F. Davey, E. S. Trikha, A. J. Carroll. R. Tantavahi, and M. B. Qumsiyeh. S. R. Patil, J. Moore, R. J. Mayer, C. A. Scjiffer, C. D. Bloomfield. Extramedullary leukemia adversely affects hematologic complete remission rate and overall survival in patients with t(8;21)(q22;q22): Results from CALGB 8461. J Clin Oncology . 1997, 15(2):466-475.
Hinson,T., T. V. Damodaran, X. X. Chang, M. B. Qumsiyeh, M. F. Seldin, and D. L. Quarles. Identification of putative transmembrane receptors homologous to the calcium sensing G-coupled receptor. Genomics. 1997, 45:279-289.
Qumsiyeh, M. B., Adhvaryu, S. G., L. Fry-Mehltretter, T. Peters-Brown, and Helen Kay. Discrepancies in cytogenetic findings in chorionic villi. J. Maternal Fetal Medicine, 1997, 6:351-355.
Adhvaryu, S. G., M. Decker-Phillips, Trisha Peters-Brown, E. Livingstone, and M. B. Qumsiyeh. Marker chromosome evolution in a three generation family. Prenatal Diagnosis, 1998, 118:178-181.
Liao, M-J, X-X Zhang, M. B. Qumsiyeh, and T. Van Dyke. No role for V(D)J recombination in p53-deficient thymic lymphoma. Mol. Cellular Biol. 1998, 18(6):3495-3501.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. Chromosome abnormalities in the placenta and spontaneous abortions. J. Matern.-Fetal Med. 1998, 7:210-212.
Heinonen, K., K. Mrozek, D. Lawrence, D. C. Arthur, M. J. Pettenati, J. Stamberg, M. B. Qumsiyeh, R. S. Verma, J. MacCallum, C. A. Schiffer, C. D. Bloomfield. Clinical characteristicsof patients with de novo acute myeloid leukemia and isolated trisomy 11: Cancer and leukemia group B study 8461. Br. J. Haematol. 1998, 101-513-520.
Ahmed, M. N., A. P. Killam, K. Thompson, and M. B. Qumsiyeh. Unconjugated estriol as an indication for prenatal diagnosis of steroid sulfatase deficiency by in situ hybridization. Obstetrics & Gynecology. 1998, 92:687-689.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. , Z. S. Amr, R. M. Al-Oran. Further records of bats from Jordan and a synopsis. Turkish J. Zoology. 1998, 22:277-284.
Klintworth, G. K., J. Sommer, L. Han, L., G. OBrian, M. N. Ahmed, M. B. Qumsiyeh, et al. Familial subepithelial corneal amyloidosis (gelatinous drop-like corneal dystrophy): Exclusion of linkage to lactoferrin gene. Molecular Vision 1998, 4:31 (www.molvis.org/molvis/v4/p31).
Byrd, J.C., D. Laurence, D. C. Arthur, M. J. Pettenati, R. Tantavahi, M. B. Qumsiyeh, J. Stamburg, F. Davey, C. A. Schiffer, C. D. Bloomfield. Patients with isolated trisomy 8 in acute myeloid leukemia are not cured with cytarabine-based chemotherapy: Results from CALGB 8461. Clinical Cancer Research 1998, 4(5):1235-1241.
Ashley-Koch, A., C.M. Wolpert, L. Zaeem, M. M. Menold, M. B. Qumsiyeh et al. Genetic studies of autistic disorders and chromosome 7. Genomics. 1999, 61:227-236.
Qumsiyeh, M.B., S. Barker, S. Dover, P. K. Kennedy, and M. P. Kennedy. A potential model for early stages of chromosomal evolution by concentric Robertsonian fans: a large area of polymorphism in southern short-tailed shrews (Blarina carolinensis). Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 1999, 87(1-2):27-31
Curotti, G., M. Benkhalifa, C. Raybaud, F. Picard, V. Belec, M. B. Qumsiyeh. De novo highly complex chromosome rearrangement (CCR) involving five breakpoints with congenital anomalies analyzed by FISH. Genetic Counseling. 1999, 10:259-264.
Zhang, XX, L. J. Robinson, T. T. Stenzel, and M. B. Qumsiyeh. Translocation t(15;17)(q22;q12-21) as a secondary chromosomal abnormality in a case of acute monoblastic leukemia with tetrasomy 8. Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 1999, 113:9-13.
Qumsiyeh, M.B., C. Cheng, J. Eyre, K. P. Mann, and X-X Zhang. Tetrasomy 8 evolving into a translocation triplication 8q in a case of acute monocytic leukemia. Cancer Genet & Cytogenet. 1999, 116:10-15.
Powell, J., T. Traweek, M. B. Qumsiyeh, and P. M. Rosoff. A novel chromosomal rearrangement associated with therapy-related acute leukemia. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 1999, 112:173-177.
Byrd, J.C., R. Dodge, A. Carroll, M. Baer, C. Edwards, J. Stamburg, M. B. Qumsiyeh, J. O. Moore, R. J. Mayer, R. Larson, C. D. Bloomfield. Patients with t(8;21)(q22;q22) and acute myeloid leukemia have a superior disease free and overall survival when repetitive cycles of high-dose cytarabine are administered: Results from CALGB 8461. J Clin Oncology. 1999, 17:3767-3775.
Shen, J.J., D. Mattern, D. S. Millington, S. Hillman, M. D. Feezor, M. J. Bennett, M. B. Qumsiyeh, S. G. Kahler, Y.-T. Chen, and J. L. K. VanHove. Acylcarnitine produced in vitro by cultured fibroblasts of patients with long-chain 3-hydroxyacylcoenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency and other disorders of fatty acid oxidation. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease. 2000, 23(1):27-44.
Ahmad, M. N., K. Kim, B. Haddad, A. Berchuck, M. B. Qumsiyeh. Comparative genomic hybridization studies in hydatidiform moles and choriocarcinoma: Amplification of 7q21-q31 and loss of 8p12-p21 in choriocarcinoma. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 2000, 116:10-15.
Melvin, E.C., T. George, G. Worley, A. Franklin, J. Mackey, K. Viles, N. Shah, C. R. Drake, D. McLone, J. Nye, J. Oakes, C. McLaaughlin, M. L. Walker, P. Peterson, T. Brei, C. Buran, J. Aben, M.B. Qumsiyeh, J. Vance, M.A. Pericack-Vance, M. C. Speer, and the NTD Collaborative Group. Genetic studies of neural tube defects. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2000, 32(1):1-9.
Ahmed, M. N., G. R. DeLong, and M. B. Qumsiyeh. Postnatal Developmental delay (PNDD) and chromosome abnormalities. Clinical Pediatrics 2000, 39:233-235.
Sen, F., V. Prieto, C. Shea, and M. B. Qumsiyeh. Increased incidence of trisomy 8 in AML with skin infiltration: use of FISH in diagnosis of leukemia cutis. Diagnostic Molecular Pathology 2000, 9(4):190-194.
Wolpert, C. M., M. M. Menold, M. P. Bass, M. B. Qumsiyeh, S. L. Donneely, S. Ravan, R. Abramson, H. Wright, L. O. Maddox, J. M. Vance, J. R. Gilbert, M. L. Cuccaro, and M. A. Peroicak-Vance. Three patients with autistic disorder and isodicentric chromosome 15. . Am J Med Genetics. 2000, 96(3): 365-372
Qumsiyeh, M. B., K-R. Kim, W. Bradford. Cytogenetics and mechanisms of spontaneous abortions: Increased apoptosis and decreased cellular proliferation in chromosomally abnormal villi. Cytogenet Cell Genet 2000, 88(3-4):230-235.
Rafi, S., H. ElGebaly, and M. B. Qumsiyeh. A high incidence of TEL/AML1 fusions accompanying other chromosome abnormalities in childhood B-precursor ALL. Diagnostic Molecular Pathology 2000, 9(4):184-189.
Henegariu O, Bray-Ward P, Artan S, Vance GH, Qumsyieh M, Ward DC. Small marker chromosome identification in metaphase and interphase using centromeric multiplex fish (CM-FISH). Lab Invest. 2001, 81(4):475-81.
Smith DS. Leone G. DeGregori J. Ahmed MN. Qumsiyeh MB. Nevins JR. Induction of DNA replication in adult rat neurons by deregulation of the retinoblastoma/E2F G1 cell cycle pathway. Cell Growth & Differentiation. 2000, 11(12):625-33.
Kone J, Chen W, Savinelli T, Arroyo J, Boyd K, Buchberg A, Wu Y, Nimmakayalu M, Copeland N, Jenkins N, Qumsiyeh M, Hu P, Prescott A, Wu H, Yang L, Roe B, Perkins A. F-MuLV Acceleration of myelomonocytic tumorigenesis in SV40 T antigen transgenic mice is accompanied by retroviral insertion at Fli1 and a novel locus, Fim-4. Leukemia. 2002; 16:1827-1834.
Qumsiyeh, MB., S Rafi, C Sarri, M Grigoriadou, J Gyftodimou, E Pandelia, H Laskari , M B Petersen. Double supernumerary isodicentric chromosomes derived from 15 resulting in partial hexasomy. Am J Med Genet. 2003, 116A:356-359.
Hui, P., J. G. Howe, J. Crouch, M. Nimmakayalu, M. B. Qumsiyeh, G. Tallini, S. D. Flynn, B. R. Smith. Real-time quantitative RT-PCR of Cyclin D1 mRNA in mantle cell lymphoma: Comparison with FISH and immunohistochemistry. Leukemia and Lymphoma, 2003, 44(8):1385-1394.
Benkhalifa, M., S. Kahraman, D. Caserta, E. Domez, M. B. Qumsiyeh. Morphological and cytogenetic analysis of intact oocytes and blocked zygotes. Prenatal Diagnosis, 2003, 23(5):397-404
Yilmaz, Y., R. Klein, MB Qumsiyeh. Trisomy 6 acquired in lymphoid blast transformation of CML with t(9;22). Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 2003, 145:86-87.
Zhang, HZ, P Li, D Wang, S Huff, M Nimmakayalu, M Qumsiyeh, B Pober. FOXC1 gene deletion is associated with eye abnormalities in ring chromosome 6. Am J Med Genet. 2004, 30;124A(3):280-7
Benkhalifa M, S Kahraman, MD A Biricik, S Serteyl, E Domez,Y Kumtepe, M B Qumsiyeh. Cytogenetic abnormalities and the failure of development after round spermatid injections. Fertility and Sterility 2004, 81(5):1283-1288.
Krikun, Graciela Gil Mor, Ayesha Alvar, Seth Gulle, Frederick Schatz, Eva Sapi, Mizanur Rahman, Rebeca Caze, Mazin Qumsiyeh, Charles J Lockwood. A novel immortalized human endometrial stromal cell line with normal progestational response. Endocrinology 145(5):2291-2296.
Alvero, A. B., M. B. Qumsiyeh, M. Garg, B. M. Kacinski, D. A. Fishman, and E Sapi. Telomerase prolongs the lifespan of normal human ovarian surface epithelial cells without inducing neoplastic phenotype. J. Soc. Gynecol. Exam. 2004, 11: 553-561.
Drazinic,, Carolyn M. Adife G. Ercan-Sencicek, Laura M. Gault, Fuki M. Hisama, Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, Norma J. Nowak, Joseph F. Cubells,, and Matthew W. State. Rapid Array-Based Genomic Characterization of a Subtle Structural Abnormality: A Patient with Psychosis and der(18)t(5;18)(p14.1;p11.23). American Journal of Medical Genetics, 2005;134:282-290.
Benkhalifa M, S Kasakyan, P Clement, M Baldi, G Tachdjian. A Demirol, T Gurgam, F Fiorentino, M Mohammad, MB Qumsiyeh. Array comparative genomic hybridization profiling of first trimester products of conception that failed to grow in vitro. Prenatal Diagnosis, 2005; 894-900.
Sharif, Fadel A, Yesim Yilmaz, Jeffrey Orell, and Mazin B. Qumsiyeh. A case of Natural Killer Cell Leukemia with Loss of p27/kip1. Leukemia and Lymphoma; 2005; 46(6):919-923.
Yilmaz Y, Lazova R, Qumsiyeh M, Cooper D, Pawelek J. Donor Y chromosome in renal carcinoma cells of a female BMT recipient: visualization of putative BMT-tumor hybrids by FISH. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2005;35(10):1021-1024.
Farag, Sherif S, Kellie J Archer, Krzysztof Mrozek, Amy S Ruppert, Andrew J Carroll, James W Vardiman, Mark J Pettenati, Maria R Baer, Mazin B Qumsiyeh, Prasad R Koduru, Yi Ning, Robert J Mayer, Richard M Stone, Richard A Larson, and Clara D Bloomfield. Pretreatment cytogenetics add to other prognostic factors predicting complete remission and long-term outcome in patients 60 years of age or older with acute myeloid leukemia: results from cancer and leukemia group B 8461. Blood 2006; 108(1):63-73.
Rhoden KJ, Unger K, Salvatore G, Yilmaz Y, Vovk V, Chiappetta G, Qumsiyeh MB, Rothstein JL, Fusco A, Santoro M, Zitzelsberger H, Tallini G. RET/PTC rearrangement in non-neoplastic thyrocytes: follicular cells of Hashimoto's thyroiditis share low level recombination events with a subset of papillary carcinoma. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2006; 91: 2040-2042.
Li, Peining, H Z Zhang, S. Huff, M. Nimmakayala, M. Qumsiyeh, J. Yi, A. Szekely, T. Xu, B. R Boper. Karyotype-phenotype insights from 11q14.1-q23.2 interstitial deletions: FZD4 haploinsufficiency and exudative vitreoretinopathy in a patient with a complex chromosome rearrangement. Am J Med Genet. 2006, 140,(24): 2721-2729.
Bixia Xiang , Susan S Hemingway, Mazin Qumsiyeh Peining Li , CytoAccess, a Relational Laboratory Information Management System for a Clinical Cytogenetics Laboratory. J Assoc Genet Technol. 2006, 32(4):168-70.
Amr, Zuhair Sami Mohammad Adnan Abu Bakr, Mazin Butros Qumsiyeh, Bat Diversity and Conservation in Jordan. Turkish Journal of Zoology, 2006, 30:235-244.
Caserta D, Benkhalifa M, Baldi M, Fiorentino F, Qumsiyeh M, Moscarini M. Genome profiling of ovarian adenocarcinomas using pangenomic BACs microarray comparative genomic hybridization. Mol Cytogenet. 2008 May 20;1(1):10.
Langer C, Radmacher MD, Ruppert AS, Whitman SP, Paschka P, Mrózek K, Baldus CD, Vukosavljevic T, Liu CG, Ross ME, Powell BL, de la Chapelle A, Kolitz JE, Larson RA, Marcucci G, Bloomfield CD; Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB). High BAALC expression associates with other molecular prognostic markers, poor outcome, and a distinct gene-expression signature in cytogenetically normal patients younger than 60 years with acute myeloid leukemia: a Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) study. Blood. 2008;111(11):5371-9.
Sharif, Fadel, A Wan Yun Wu, and Mazin B. Qumsiyeh . Translocation (10;11)(p13;q23) in acute monocytic leukemia with tetrasomy 8. Cancer Genet Cytogenet. Pending
Qumsiyeh, M.B., Ahmed, M.N., K. Lucas, C. Shea, V. M. Prietto, Amplification of 20q13 and likely involvement of STK15 locus in development of “dysplastic” nevi and melanoma. Pending
Ballo, M.J., Kim, K-R, and M. B. Qumsiyeh. Trisomy of Chromosomes 7, 16, and 17 in Papillary Renal Cell Neoplasms: Detection in Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Sections by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization. Pending.
Editorials, Reviews, Chapters (peer reviewed)
Qumsiyeh, M. B. and J. K. Jones, Jr. Rhinopoma hardwickii and R. muscatellum. Mammalian Species, American Society of Mammalogists, 1986, 263:1-5.
Baker, R. J., M. B. Qumsiyeh, and C. S. Hood. Role of chromosomal banding patterns in understanding mammalian evolution. Pp. 67-96 in Current Mammalogy, Vol. 1 (H. H. Genoways, ed.), Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York. 1987.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. and R. J. Baker. Comparative cytogenetics and the determination of primitive karyotypes. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, 1988, 47:100-103.
Baker, R. J. and M. B. Qumsiyeh. Methods in chiropteran mitotic chromosomal studies. Pp. 425-435 In Ecological and Behavioral Methods for the Study of Bats (T. H. Kunz, ed.), Smithsonian Inst. Press, Washington DC. 1988.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. On the nature of controversies in evolutionary biology. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 1990, 33(3):421-430.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. and Z. S. Amr. Mammals of Jordan: Rodents. Al-Reem (Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature). 1991, 44:19-20. In Arabic.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. and D. A. Schlitter. Cytogenetic data on the rodent family Gerbillidae. Occasional Papers of the Museum, Texas Tech University 1991, 144:1-20.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. Review of "Mammals of Arabia" by D. L. Harrison and P. J. Bates. Journal of Mammalogy 1992, 73(1):228-229.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. Review of "Mammals of Algeria" by K. Kowalski and B. Rzebik-Kowalska. Journal of Mammalogy. 1992, 73(2):459-460.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. EEC syndrome (ectrodactyly, ectodermal dysplasia and cleft lip/palate) is on 7q11.2-q21.3. Clinical Genetics 1992, 42(2):101.
Suttle, D. P. and M. B. Qumsiyeh. A reversible selection system for UMP synthase gene amplification and deamplification. Pp. 255-264 in R. Kellem (ed.)Gene Amplification in Mammalian Cells: Techniques and Applications . Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, NY, 543 pp. 1992.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. Evolution of number and morphology of mammalian chromosomes. J. Heredity. 1994, 85:455-465.
Gharaibeh, B. and M. B. Qumsiyeh. Otonycteris hemprichii. Mammalian Species, American Society of Mammalogists. No. 514, pp. 1-4.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. Impact of rearrangements on function and position of chromosomes in the interphase nucleus and on human genetic disorders. Chromosome Research, 1995, 3:455-465.
Schlitter, D. A. and M. B. Qumsiyeh. Rhinopoma microphyllum. Mammalian Species, American Society of Mammalogists. 1996, No 542, pp. 1-5, 4 figs.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. , Z. S. Amr, A. M. Budari. Status and conservation of Artiodactyla (Mammalia) in Jordan. Mammalia 1996, 60:417-430.
Qumsiyeh, M. B., M. Dasouki, and A. Teebi. Genetics of Palestinians and Jordanians. pp. 227-258 in "Genetic Disorders Among The Arabs" edited by Ahmad S. Teebi and T. A. Farag, Oxford Monographs in Genetics No. 33, Oxford Univ. Press. 1997.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. Organization and management of a cytogenetic laboratory in the twenty-first century. Archives De l’Institute Pasteur Tunis, 1997, LXXIV (3/4): 26-27.
Fathallah, D. M., K. Dellagi, M. B. Qumsiyeh, and A. S. Teebi. Recent advances in molecular genetics of the Maghreb and the Middle East populations: The first Middle East Genetics Association of America (MEGA) conference. Am. J. Med. Genet. 1998, 78:90-91.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. Review of “Pathology of the Placenta” Third Edition by Benirschke and Kaufmann, Springer-Verlag, Int. J. Gynecol. Pathol. 1998, 17:93-94.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. Structure and function of the nucleus: anatomy and physiology of chromatin. Cellular Mol. Life Sci. (CMLS) 1999, 55:1129-1140.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. S. G. Adhvaryu, and A. Teebi. Cytogenetics. Pp.20-32 in "Textbook of Clinical Pediatrics," A.Y. Elzouki, H. A. Harfi, H. M. Nazer, Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins, 2001.
Qumsiyeh, MB and Peining Li. Molecular Biology of Cancer: Cytogenetics. Pp. 77-90. In “Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology” V. T. DeVita, Jr, S. Hellman, S. A. Rosenberg (eds). Philadelphia: Lippinscott, Williams and Wilkins, Inc., Sixth Edition. 2001.
Qumsiyeh, MB and Y. Yilmaz. Molecular Cytogenetics. Pp 34-43 In “Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology” V. T. DeVita, Jr, S. Hellman, S. A. Rosenberg (eds). Philadelphia: Lippinscott, Williams and Wilkins, Inc., Seventh Edition. 2005.
Books
Qumsiyeh, M. B. The Bats of Egypt. Special Publications of the Museum, Texas Tech University, Texas Tech Press, Lubbock, Texas, No. 23, 102 pp. 1985
Qumsiyeh, M. B. The Mammals of the Holy Land. Texas Tech Press, Lubbock, Texas, 400 pp, 118 figures. 1996.
Qumsiyeh, M. B. Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle, Pluto Press, 2004 (includes also chapters on such topics as population genetics and environmental sustainability).
Spanish Edition with new introduction published 2008.
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