Neonatal and Pediatric Medicine
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Koichi Hirano

Department of Pediatrics, Hamamatsu City Welfare and Medical Center for Development, Hamamatsu, Japan

Biography

Koichi Hirano served as a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Hamamatsu City Welfare and Medical Center for Development, Hamamatsu, Japan. As a Professor, Recipient of many awards and grants for his valuable contributions and discoveries in major area of research.His research interests includes Array comparative genomic hybridization; Intellectual disability

Publications

Genomewide Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization in 55 JapaneseNormokaryotypic Patients with Non-Syndromic Intellectual Disability

Background: Genomewide array comparative genomic hybridization (aCGH) has widely been utilized as the diagnostic tool in patients with non-syndromic intellectual disability (ID). Indeed, aCGH has identified pathogenic copy number variants (pCNVs), as well as variants of uncertain clinical significance (VsUS) and benign CNVs (bCNVs), in such patient... Read More»

Miki Asahina, Yusaku Endoh, Tomoko Matsubayashi, Koichi Hirano, Tokiko Fukuda and Tsutomu Ogata

Research Article: Neonat Pediatr Med 2016, 1:S1008

DOI: 10.4172/2572-4983.S1-008

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