Marina Mordenti
Biotechnologist
Medical Genetics and Rare Orthopaedic Diseases
Orthopaedic Rizzoli Institute
Italy
Biography
2007-Present: Post-doctoral Fellow at the Department of Medical Genetics, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna; 2008-2010: Assistant Professor Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences at the University of Bologna for the course “Bioinformatics for Medical Genetics”; 2003-2007: PhD Student at the Department of Medical Genetics, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna; 2002-2004: Research Fellow at the Department of Medical Genetics, Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute, Bologna; 2001: Summer Student at the National Cancer Institute - NIH, Bethesda, MA (USA) supported by a grant from the University of Bologna.
Research Interest
Genotype-phenotype correlation, clinical and molecular genetics, clinical bioinformatics, epidemiology.
Publications
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Pedrini E, De Luca A, Valente EM, Maini V, Capponcelli S, Mordenti M, Mingarelli R, Sangiorgi L, Dallapiccola B. Novel EXT1 and EXT2 mutations identified by DHPLC in Italian patients with multiple osteochondromas. Human mutation. 2005 Sep 1;26(3):280-.
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Pedrini E, Jennes I, Tremosini M, Milanesi A, Mordenti M, Parra A, Sgariglia F, Zuntini M, Campanacci L, Fabbri N, Pignotti E. Genotype-phenotype correlation study in 529 patients with multiple hereditary exostoses: identification of “protective†and “risk†factors. JBJS. 2011 Dec 21;93(24):2294-302.
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Jennes I, Pedrini E, Zuntini M, Mordenti M, Balkassmi S, Asteggiano CG, Casey B, Bakker B, Sangiorgi L, Wuyts W. Multiple osteochondromas: mutation update and description of the multiple osteochondromas mutation database (MOdb). Human mutation. 2009 Dec 1;30(12):1620-7.
