Physician
Psychiatry
Dr. Michael Escamilla, MD
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Michael Escamilla is an expert in the field of Psychiatry. He researched medicine at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. Michael Escamilla has written publications. He has 73 publications published with PubMed. The lastest paper is: 'A complete genome screen for genes predisposing to severe bipolar disorder in two Costa Rican pedigrees.'
Publications
- Identification of circadian gene variants in bipolar disorder in Latino populations.
- A genome-wide linkage scan of bipolar disorder in Latino families identifies susceptibility loci at 8q24 and 14q32.
- Candidate gene associations with mood disorder, cognitive vulnerability, and fronto-limbic volumes.
- Comorbidity of Severe Psychotic Disorders With Measures of Substance Use.
- Global signaling effects of a schizophrenia-associated missense mutation in neuregulin 1: an exploratory study using whole genome and novel kinome approaches.
- Shared genetic factors influence risk for bipolar disorder and alcohol use disorders.
- NRG3 gene is associated with the risk and age at onset of Alzheimer disease.
- Genetic Association Analysis of ITGB3 Polymorphisms with Age at Onset of Schizophrenia.
- The genomic psychiatry cohort: Partners in discovery.
- Suggestive evidence for association between L-type voltage-gated calcium channel (CACNA1C) gene haplotypes and bipolar disorder in Latinos: a family-based association ...
- BCL9 and C9orf5 Are Associated with Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia: Meta-Analysis of Two Genome-Wide Association Studies.
- Polymorphisms in seizure 6-like gene are associated with bipolar disorder I: evidence of gene × gender interaction.
- Genome-wide methylome analyses reveal novel epigenetic regulation patterns in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
- The DNA methylome and transcriptome of different brain regions in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
- Family-based association of an ANK3 haplotype with bipolar disorder in Latino populations.
- Research issues for improving treatment of U.S. Hispanics with persistent mental disorders.
- DLX3 mutation associated with autosomal dominant amelogenesis imperfecta with taurodontism.
- Genetic structure of personality factors and bipolar disorder in families segregating bipolar disorder.
- Variation in the malic enzyme 2 gene: implications for the pharmacogenomics of psychotic disorders.
- APOE-epsilon3 and APOE-219G haplotypes increase the risk for schizophrenia in sibling pairs.
- Inconsistencies in diagnosis and symptoms among bilingual and English-speaking Latinos and Euro-Americans.
- Meta-analysis of 32 genome-wide linkage studies of schizophrenia.
- Diagnosis of schizophrenia in latino populations: a comparison of direct interview and consensus based multi-source methods.
- Substance use disorder and schizophrenia: prevalence and sociodemographic characteristics in the Latin American population.
- The serotonin transporter 5-HTTPR polymorphism is associated with current and lifetime depression in persons with chronic psychotic disorders.
- Principal domains of quantitative anxiety trait in subjects with lifetime history of mania.
- The epsin 4 gene is associated with psychotic disorders in families of Latin American origin.
- Substance use disorder comorbidity with schizophrenia in families of Mexican and Central American ancestry.
- A schizophrenia gene locus on chromosome 17q21 in a new set of families of Mexican and central american ancestry: evidence from the NIMH Genetics of schizophrenia in l...
- Association study of 21 circadian genes with bipolar I disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and schizophrenia.
- A novel missense mutation in the transmembrane domain of neuregulin 1 is associated with schizophrenia.
- Assessment of genetic ancestry and population substructure in Costa Rica by analysis of individuals with a familial history of mental disorder.
- Genetic structure analysis of three Hispanic populations from Costa Rica, Mexico, and the southwestern United States using Y-chromosome STR markers and mtDNA sequences.
- Association of serotonin transporter promoter gene polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) with depression in Costa Rican schizophrenic patients.
- Treatment characteristics and illness burden among European Americans, African Americans, and Latinos in the first 2,000 patients of the systematic treatment enhanceme...
- An approach to investigating linkage for bipolar disorder using large Costa Rican pedigrees.
- Psychiatric syndromes in individuals with chromosome 18 abnormalities.
- Is subclinical anxiety an endophenotype for bipolar I patients? A study from a Costa Rican sample.
- Population isolates: their special value for locating genes for bipolar disorder.
- Fine-scale mapping of a locus for severe bipolar mood disorder on chromosome 18p11.3 in the Costa Rican population.
- Diagnosis and treatment of mood disorders that co-occur with schizophrenia.
- Genome screening for linkage disequilibrium in a Costa Rican sample of patients with bipolar-I disorder: a follow-up study on chromosome 18.
- A minimalist approach to gene mapping: locating the gene for acheiropodia, by homozygosity analysis.
- Assessing the feasibility of linkage disequilibrium methods for mapping complex traits: an initial screen for bipolar disorder loci on chromosome 18.
- A complete genome screen for genes predisposing to severe bipolar disorder in two Costa Rican pedigrees.
- Use of linkage disequilibrium approaches to map genes for bipolar disorder in the Costa Rican population.
- Genetic mapping using haplotype, association and linkage methods suggests a locus for severe bipolar disorder (BPI) at 18q22-q23.
- Association analyses of the neuregulin 1 gene with schizophrenia and manic psychosis in a Hispanic population.
- A genome-wide scan for schizophrenia and psychosis susceptibility loci in families of Mexican and Central American ancestry.
- TGFB-induced factor (TGIF): a candidate gene for psychosis on chromosome 18p.
- Health-related conditions and depression in elderly mexican american and non-Hispanic white residents of a United States-Mexico border county: moderating effects of ed...
- Clozapine treatment causes oxidation of proteins involved in energy metabolism in lymphoblastoid cells: a possible mechanism for antipsychotic-induced metabolic altera...
- In vivo and in vitro genetic evidence of involvement of neuregulin 1 in immune system dysregulation.
- Neurocognitive endophenotypes for bipolar disorder identified in multiplex multigenerational families.
- Social and clinical comparison between schizophrenia and bipolar disorder type I with psychosis in Costa Rica.
- Heritability of age of onset of psychosis in schizophrenia.
- Linkage disequilibrium mapping of the chromosome 6q21-22.31 bipolar I disorder susceptibility locus.
- Neuronal correlates of brain-derived neurotrophic factor Val66Met polymorphism and morphometric abnormalities in bipolar disorder.
- Effect of catechol O-methyltransferase val(158)met polymorphism on the p50 gating endophenotype in schizophrenia.
- Methionine sulfoxide reductase: a novel schizophrenia candidate gene.
- Cannabinoid receptor 1 gene (CNR1) and susceptibility to a quantitative phenotype for hebephrenic schizophrenia.
- Brain-derived neurotrophic factor val66met polymorphism affects prefrontal energy metabolism in bipolar disorder.
- Malic enzyme 2 and susceptibility to psychosis and mania.
- Adjudicating neurocognitive endophenotypes for schizophrenia.
- Linkage disequilibrium analyses in the Costa Rican population suggests discrete gene loci for schizophrenia at 8p23.1 and 8q13.3.
- Evidence of genetic overlap of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: linkage disequilibrium analysis of chromosome 18 in the Costa Rican population.
- The feasibility of neuropsychological endophenotypes in the search for genes associated with bipolar affective disorder.
- Genetic studies of neuropsychiatric disorders in Costa Rica: a model for the use of isolated populations.
- Genome scan meta-analysis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, part III: Bipolar disorder.
- The Lifetime Dimensions of Psychosis Scale (LDPS): description and interrater reliability.
- Comorbidity of bipolar disorder and substance abuse in Costa Rica: pedigree- and population-based studies.
- Genomewide linkage disequilibrium mapping of severe bipolar disorder in a population isolate.
Doctors Specialties
- Psychiatry
Accepted Insurances
- Blue Card PPO
- Blue Choice
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Choice Care PPO
- Preferred PPO
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Education
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UCSF Medical Center -
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
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