Rody Cox, M.D.
Professor Emeritus

Medical School

University of Pennsylvania (1952)

• Human Genetics
• Internal Medicine
• Mammalian Cell Regulatory Mechanisms
• Somatic Cell Genetics

Featured Publications

Maple Syrup Urine Disease: Clinical and BIochemical Perspectives

David T. Chuang, Jacinta L. Chuang, and Rody P. Cox Molecular and Genetic Basis of Neurologic Diseases 2003

Identification of the alpha aminoadipic semialdehyde synthase gene, which is defective in familial hyperlysinemia

Sacksteder, KA, et al. Am J Hum Genet 2000 66 1736-1743

Characterization of the gene encoding alpha-aminoadipic semialdehyde synthase

Sacksteder KA et al. Am J Hum Genet 1999 65 (suppl) 429A

Impaired assembly of E1 decarboxylaseof the branched-chain alpha-ketoacid dehydrogenase complex in type 1A maple syrup urine disease

Wynn RM et al. J Biol Chem 1998 273 13110-13118

Molecular genetic basis of TYpe II maple syrup urine disease. Novel splicing errors caused by deletionsof internal intronic segments in E2 gene and correlations with thiamine-responsive phenotype

Chuang JL, Cox RP, Chuang DT J Clin Invest 1977 100 736-744

• American Clinical and Climatological Association
• American Society for Clinical Investibation
• American Society for Human Genetics
• Association of American Physicians
• Interurban Clinical Club