Ethylin Wang Jabs

Ethylin Wang Jabs is an American physician and scientist with expertise in medical genetics, pediatrics, and craniofacial biology. She is currently vice chair of the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Jabs is also a professor in the departments of developmental and regenerative biology and pediatrics at Mount Sinai and an adjunct professor in pediatrics, medicine, and surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her research and clinical practice have focused on development genetics and patients with birth defects.

Ethylin Wang Jabs
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materJohns Hopkins University
Scientific career
Fieldsmedical genetics, craniofacial biology
InstitutionsIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Education

Jabs graduated in 1974 as a member of the first undergraduate class that admitted women at Johns Hopkins University. She received her medical degree and pediatric and medical genetics training at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

Research highlights

Jabs joined the Johns Hopkins University faculty in 1984 and became a professor of pediatric genetics and Director of the Center for Craniofacial Development and Disorders.[1]

Her laboratory was responsible for the identification of the first human mutation in a homeobox-containing gene, an important regulatory gene in development.[2] Jabs went on to identify mutations in key genes responsible for craniofacial disorders, especially craniosynostosis.[3][4][5][6] She discovered that similar mutations in the same gene, fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 or FGFR2, cause both Jackson–Weiss syndrome and Crouzon syndrome.[3]

For some of these conditions, Jabs demonstrated the association of advanced paternal age at conception. She has studied the increased frequency of spontaneous mutations arising in sperm with aging.[7][8] Jabs started a database of clinical and genetic data for people with craniofacial disorders including those with Möbius syndrome, a rare neurological disorder, to help identify the genetic root of the condition.[9] Jabs joined the Mount Sinai medical school in 2007.[10] She conducts collaborative genetic research on rare disorders and animal model systems to investigate the molecular mechanism and potential therapeutic strategies for these conditions.[11] She is an active clinician seeing patients with birth defects.[12]

During her time at Johns Hopkins, she directed an international training program in collaboration with Peking Union Medical College and Peking University. At Mount Sinai, she runs a training program for predoctoral students on the integration of bioinformatics, statistics, and developmental biology.[13]

Jabs is an advisor to several parent support groups, including Smile Train.[14] She has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed publications, chapters, and reviews.[15][16]

References
  1. "Jabs, Ethylin Wang, M.D". Hopkinsmedicine.org. Archived from the original on 2013-12-10. Retrieved 2013-12-03.
  2. Jabs, Ethylin Wang; Müller, Ulrich; Li, Xiang; Ma, Liang; Luo, Wen; Haworth, Ian S; Klisak, Ivana; Sparkes, Robert; Warman, Matthew L; Mulliken, John B; Snead, Malcolm L; Maxson, Rob (1993). "A mutation in the homeodomain of the human MSX2 gene in a family affected with autosomal dominant craniosynostosis". Cell. 75 (3): 443–50. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(93)90379-5. PMID 8106171. S2CID 13650758.
  3. Jabs, Ethylin Wang; Li, Xiang; Scott, Alan F; Meyers, Gregory; Chen, Wendy; Eccles, Michael; Mao, Jen-i; Charnas, Lawrence R; Jackson, Charles E; Jaye, Michael (1994). "Jackson-Weiss and Crouzon syndromes are allelic with mutations in fibroblast growth factor receptor 2". Nature Genetics. 8 (3): 275–9. doi:10.1038/ng1194-275. PMID 7874170. S2CID 37549497.
  4. Howard, Timothy D; Paznekas, William A; Green, Eric D; Chiang, Lydia C; Ma, Nancy; Luna, Rosa Isela Ortiz De; Delgado, Costanza Garcia; Gonzalez-Ramos, Mario; Kline, Antoine D; Jabs, Ethylin Wang (1997). "Mutations in TWIST, a basic helix–loop–helix transcription factor, in Saethre-Chotzen syndrome". Nature Genetics. 15 (1): 36–41. doi:10.1038/ng0197-36. PMID 8988166. S2CID 35360537.
  5. Justice, Cristina M; Yagnik, Garima; Kim, Yoonhee; Peter, Inga; Jabs, Ethylin Wang; Erazo, Monica; Ye, Xiaoqian; Ainehsazan, Edmond; Shi, Lisong; Cunningham, Michael L; Kimonis, Virginia; Roscioli, Tony; Wall, Steven A; Wilkie, Andrew O M; Stoler, Joan; Richtsmeier, Joan T; Heuzé, Yann; Sanchez-Lara, Pedro A; Buckley, Michael F; Druschel, Charlotte M; Mills, James L; Caggana, Michele; Romitti, Paul A; Kay, Denise M; Senders, Craig; Taub, Peter J; Klein, Ophir D; Boggan, James; Zwienenberg-Lee, Marike; et al. (2012). "A genome-wide association study identifies susceptibility loci for nonsyndromic sagittal craniosynostosis near BMP2 and within BBS9". Nature Genetics. 44 (12): 1360–4. doi:10.1038/ng.2463. PMC 3736322. PMID 23160099.
  6. GEORGE JOHNSONPublished: February 13, 1996 (1996-02-13). "Same Gene May Shape Face, Heart and Hands - New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-12-03.
  7. Glaser, R. L (2004). "Dear Old Dad". Science of Aging Knowledge Environment. 2004 (3): 1re–1. doi:10.1126/sageke.2004.3.re1. PMID 14736914.
  8. Glaser, Rivka L; Broman, Karl W; Schulman, Rebecca L; Eskenazi, Brenda; Wyrobek, Andrew J; Jabs, Ethylin Wang (2003). "The Paternal-Age Effect in Apert Syndrome is Due, in Part, to the Increased Frequency of Mutations in Sperm". The American Journal of Human Genetics. 73 (4): 939–47. doi:10.1086/378419. PMC 1180614. PMID 12900791.
  9. Miller, G (2007). "NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS: The Mystery of the Missing Smile". Science. 316 (5826): 826–7. doi:10.1126/science.316.5826.826. PMID 17495152. S2CID 142880445.
  10. "Ethylin Wang Jabs - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai". Icahn.mssm.edu. 2007-11-01. Archived from the original on 2013-12-13. Retrieved 2013-12-03.
  11. Wang, Yingli; Zhou, Xueyan; Oberoi, Kurun; Phelps, Robert; Couwenhoven, Ross; Sun, Miao; Rezza, Amélie; Holmes, Greg; Percival, Christopher J; Friedenthal, Jenna; Krejci, Pavel; Richtsmeier, Joan T; Huso, David L; Rendl, Michael; Jabs, Ethylin Wang (2012). "P38 Inhibition ameliorates skin and skull abnormalities in Fgfr2 Beare-Stevenson mice". Journal of Clinical Investigation. 122 (6): 2153–64. doi:10.1172/JCI62644. PMC 3366414. PMID 22585574.
  12. "Ethylin Jabs | Mount Sinai - New York".
  13. "NIH Training Grant Systems Biology | Icahn School of Medicine".
  14. "Dome: A publication for the Johns Hopkins Medicine family". Hopkinsmedicine.org. Archived from the original on 2010-09-06. Retrieved 2013-12-03.
  15. Search Results for author Jabs E on PubMed.
  16. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ethylin_Jabs/contributions%5B%5D
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