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Peter S. White

Expertise

Dr. White works on identifying the genomic contributors to disease risk for pediatric disorders, including ADHD, cardiac defects, and solid tumors. His group is also involved in developing new methods for extracting integrating and analyzing biomedical data using novel informatics approaches.

Appointments

Research Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (2005 – present)

Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (1999 – 2005)

Education

Ph.D., Molecular Genetics, Washington University (1992)

B.S., Biology, University of Oregon (1986)

Selected Publications

Thompson PM, Gotoh T, Kok, M., White PS, Brodeur GM.. CHD5, a new member of the chromodomain gene family, is preferentially expressed in the nervous system. Oncogene. Vol 22. 2003:1002-1011.

Winters RS, White PS.. Analysis of correlations between cytogenetic and DNA sequence localizations. Cold Spring Harbor Genome Informatics 2003. 2003.

Murphy K, Raj T, Winters RS, White PS. Advancement of electronic PCR: me-PCR. Cold Spring Harbor Genome Informatics 2003. 2003.

Weiss JS, Theendakara V, Tromp G, Panchal S, White P, Kuivaniemi H. Fine Mapping of Schnyder’s Crystalline Corneal Dystrophy. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. Vol 44. 2003:B561.

Hii G, Varde SA, Lathrop JA, Rappaport E, White PS, Fortina P, Gelfand CA, Maris JM. High-throughput SNP-based detection of multiple genomic copy number alterations in human malignancies using a tag-array platform: Neuroblastoma as a mode. 94th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. 2003.

Winters RS, McDonald RT, Jin Y, Kim J, Wooster R, Liberman MY, Pereira F, White PS. Extraction of cancer-specific genomic variation from the biomedical literature. Human Genome Variation Society Scientific & Annual General Meeting. 2003.

White PS, Raj T, Winters RS, Murphy K.. Advancement of electronic PCR. Am J Hum Genet. Vol 73. 2003:423.

Theendakara V, Tromp G, Kuivaniemi H, White PS, Panchal S, Winters S, Riebeling P, Tost F, Hoeltzenbein M, Tervo T, Weiss JS. Fine mapping of the Schnyder's Crystalline Corneal Dystrophy. Am J Hum Genet. Vol 73. 2003:479.

Kong X, Murphy K, Raj T, He C, White PS, Matise TC. A combined linkage-physical map of the human genome. Am J Hum Genet. Vol 73. 2003:196.

White PS, Matise TC. Chromosome 1. Encyclopedia of the Human Genome. Nature Publishing Group; 2003.