Donald G. Basel, MD
Section Chief and Associate Professor, Pediatrics (Genetics); Associate Director, Undiagnosed & Rare Diseases, Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine Center; Medical Director, Genetics Center, Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin; Co-program Director, Neurofibromatosis and RASopathy, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
Locations
- Children's Hospital of Wisconsin
Biography
Dr. Basel considers himself very fortunate to be able to do what he does. Not only does he get to work in a field that he is passionate about, but he is afforded the opportunity to meet people who have been searching for answers, which he can frequently provide, to help them understand why they have the health concerns that they do.
Research Experience
- Abnormalities, Multiple
- Aneurysm, Dissecting
- Bone Diseases, Developmental
- Cafe-au-Lait Spots
- Diagnosis, Differential
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
- Exome
- Fibrillin-1
- Genetic Testing
- Humans
- Loeys-Dietz Syndrome
- Marfan Syndrome
Clinical Expertise
- Achondroplasia
- Cafe-au-Lait Spots
- Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
- Hereditary Disorders of Connective Tissue
- LEOPARD Syndrome
- Loeys-Dietz Syndrome
- Marfan Syndrome
- Neurofibroma
- Neurofibroma, Plexiform
- Neurofibromatosis 1
- Neurofibromatosis 2
- Noonan Syndrome
Leadership Positions
- Associate Director: Undiagnosed and Rare Disease Program - GSPMC
- Co-Director: Neurofibromatosis & RASopathy Center
- Program Director: Medical Genetics Residency Program
Publications
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Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis mimicking neonatal hemochromatosis.
(Broglie L, Vitola B, Thakar MS, Basel D, Szabo S, Agni R, Talano JA.) Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2019 Oct;36(7):451-456.
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Keeping a Flexible Differential Diagnosis: an Exercise in Clinical Reasoning.
(Bergl PA, Manesh R, Basel D, Olson APJ.) J Gen Intern Med. 2019 Jun;34(6):1063-1068.
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(Koczkowska M, Callens T, Gomes A, Sharp A, Chen Y, Hicks AD, Aylsworth AS, Azizi AA, Basel DG, Bellus G, Bird LM, Blazo MA, Burke LW, Cannon A, Collins F, DeFilippo C, Denayer E, Digilio MC, Dills SK, Dosa L, Greenwood RS, Griffis C, Gupta P, Hachen RK, Hernández-Chico C, Janssens S, Jones KJ, Jordan JT, Kannu P, Korf BR, Lewis AM, Listernick RH, Lonardo F, Mahoney MJ, Ojeda MM, McDonald MT, McDougall C, Mendelsohn N, Miller DT, Mori M, Oostenbrink R, Perreault S, Pierpont ME, Piscopo C, Pond DA, Randolph LM, Rauen KA, Rednam S, Rutledge SL, Saletti V, Schaefer GB, Schorry EK, Scott DA, Shugar A, Siqveland E, Starr LJ, Syed A, Trapane PL, Ullrich NJ, Wakefield EG, Walsh LE, Wangler MF, Zackai E, Claes KBM, Wimmer K, van Minkelen R, De Luca A, Martin Y, Legius E, Messiaen LM.) Genet Med. 2019 04;21(4):867-876.
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Severe Neonatal RYR1 Myopathy With Pathological Features of Congenital Muscular Dystrophy.
(Helbling DC, Mendoza D, McCarrier J, Vanden Avond MA, Harmelink MM, Barkhaus PE, Basel D, Lawlor MW.) J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2019 Mar 01;78(3):283-287.
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(Koczkowska M, Callens T, Gomes A, Sharp A, Chen Y, Hicks AD, Aylsworth AS, Azizi AA, Basel DG, Bellus G, Bird LM, Blazo MA, Burke LW, Cannon A, Collins F, DeFilippo C, Denayer E, Digilio MC, Dills SK, Dosa L, Greenwood RS, Griffis C, Gupta P, Hachen RK, Hernández-Chico C, Janssens S, Jones KJ, Jordan JT, Kannu P, Korf BR, Lewis AM, Listernick RH, Lonardo F, Mahoney MJ, Ojeda MM, McDonald MT, McDougall C, Mendelsohn N, Miller DT, Mori M, Oostenbrink R, Perreault S, Pierpont ME, Piscopo C, Pond DA, Randolph LM, Rauen KA, Rednam S, Rutledge SL, Saletti V, Schaefer GB, Schorry EK, Scott DA, Shugar A, Siqveland E, Starr LJ, Syed A, Trapane PL, Ullrich NJ, Wakefield EG, Walsh LE, Wangler MF, Zackai E, Claes KBM, Wimmer K, van Minkelen R, De Luca A, Martin Y, Legius E, Messiaen LM.) Genet Med. 2019 03;21(3):764-765.
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DNA Polymerase Epsilon Deficiency Causes IMAGe Syndrome with Variable Immunodeficiency.
(Logan CV, Murray JE, Parry DA, Robertson A, Bellelli R, Tarnauskaitė Ž, Challis R, Cleal L, Borel V, Fluteau A, Santoyo-Lopez J, SGP Consortium, Aitman T, Barroso I, Basel D, Bicknell LS, Goel H, Hu H, Huff C, Hutchison M, Joyce C, Knox R, Lacroix AE, Langlois S, McCandless S, McCarrier J, Metcalfe KA, Morrissey R, Murphy N, Netchine I, O'Connell SM, Olney AH, Paria N, Rosenfeld JA, Sherlock M, Syverson E, White PC, Wise C, Yu Y, Zacharin M, Banerjee I, Reijns M, Bober MB, Semple RK, Boulton SJ, Rios JJ, Jackson AP.) Am J Hum Genet. 2018 12 06;103(6):1038-1044.
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Analyzing the Genetic Spectrum of Vascular Anomalies with Overgrowth via Cancer Genomics.
(Siegel DH, Cottrell CE, Streicher JL, Schilter KF, Basel DG, Baselga E, Burrows PE, Ciliberto HM, Vigh-Conrad KA, Eichenfield LF, Holland KE, Hogeling M, Jensen JN, Kelly ME, Kim W, King DM, McCuaig C, Mueller KA, Pope E, Powell J, Price H, Steiner JE, Frieden IJ, Tollefson MM, Drolet BA.) J Invest Dermatol. 2018 04;138(4):957-967.
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(Peterson JF, Basel DG, Bick DP, Chirempes B, Lorier RB, Zemlicka N, Grignon JW Jr, Weik L, Kappes U.) J Pediatr Genet. 2018 Mar;7(1):23-28.
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(Peterson JF, Geddes GC, Basel DG, Schippman D, Grignon JW Jr, vanTuinen P, Kappes UP.) J Pediatr Genet. 2018 Mar;7(1):35-39.
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Inactivation of AMMECR1 is associated with growth, bone, and heart alterations.
(Moysés-Oliveira M, Giannuzzi G, Fish RJ, Rosenfeld JA, Petit F, Soares MF, Kulikowski LD, Di-Battista A, Zamariolli M, Xia F, Liehr T, Kosyakova N, Carvalheira G, Parker M, Seaby EG, Ennis S, Gilbert RD, Hagelstrom RT, Cremona ML, Li WL, Malhotra A, Chandrasekhar A, Perry DL, Taft RJ, McCarrier J, Basel DG, Andrieux J, Stumpp T, Antunes F, Pereira GJ, Neerman-Arbez M, Meloni VA, Drummond-Borg M, Melaragno MI, Reymond A.) Hum Mutat. 2018 02;39(2):281-291.
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(Geddes GC, Basel D, Frommelt P, Kinney A, Earing M.) Pediatr Cardiol. 2017 Oct;38(7):1465-1470.
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Mosaic Trisomy 9p in a Patient with Mild Dysmorphic Features and Normal Intelligence.
(Brar R, Basel DG, Bick DP, Weik L, vanTuinen P, Peterson JF.) J Assoc Genet Technol. 2017;43(2):56-58.