Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh


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Mazin B. Qumsiyeh (PhD)

Mazin B. Qumsiyeh

- Born in 1957 in Beit Sahour, a suburb of Bethlehem in the area now occupied by Israel since 1967.  He is married with one son (now enrolling at MIT).
- Received Bachelor degree in Biology at Jordan University (1978), Master in Zoology at UConn (1982), Ph.D. from Texas Tech University (1986). 
- Did Postdoctoral work in St. Jude Children Research Hospital (1989) and a Clinical Fellowship at the University of Tennessee in Memphis (1991).
- Taught at schools in Bethlehem, Jericho, and Jerusalem before coming to the US.
- Currently serves as Associate Professor of Genetics and Director of Clinical Cytogenetic services at Yale University School of Medicine since 1999. Previously held similar position at Duke University.
- Authored over 110 scientific papers in areas of mammalogy, biology, and medicine including mammalian biology and evolution, clinical genetics, and cancer research.


- Author of three books
1) Bats of Egypt (1985, 102 pages)
2) Mammals of the Holy Land (1996, 387 pages)
3) Sharing The Land of Canaan (In press, 2004)

- Published over 100 letters to the editor and 30 op-ed pieces in International, national, regional and local papers on issues ranging from politics to environmental issues.  
- Interviewed in TV and radio extensively (local, national and international). Appearances in national media included the Washington Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, CNBC, C-Span, and ABC, among others. 
- Founder and president of the Holy Land Conservation Foundation and ex-President of the Middle East Genetics Association. 
- Won the Jallow activism award from the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee in 1998.
- Cofounder and currently national treasurer and media coordinator of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition (see http://al-awda.org). 
- Cofounder of the AcademicsFor Justice.org and BoycottIsraeliGoods.org campaigns.
- Vice President of the Middle East Crisis Committee (http://TheStruggle.org)
- Member of a number of human rights groups (Amnesty, Peace action, Human Rights Watch, ACLU etc.).

Personal web page:

http://info.med.yale.edu/genetics/fac/MazinQumsiyeh.htm

 

Peer Reviewed Original Research

 Qumsiyeh, M. B.  New records of bats from Jordan.Säugetierk. Mitt. 1980, 28(1): 36-39.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. and D. A. Schlitter.  Bat records from Mauritania, Africa (Mammalia: Chiroptera). Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1981, 50(13):345-351.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. and D. A. Schlitter.  The bat fauna of Jabal al Akhdar, North East Libya. Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1982, 51(19):377-389.

Qumsiyeh, M. B.  Occurrence and zoogeographical implications of Myotis blythi (Tomes, 1857) in Libya. Mammalia (Paris), 1983, 47(3):429-430.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. and R. J. Baker. G- and C-banded karyotypes of the Rhinopomatidae (Microchiroptera). Journal of Mammalogy, 1985, 66:541-544.

Qumsiyeh, M. B.  Phylogenetic studies of the rodent family Gerbillidae: I. Chromosomal  evolution in the southern African group. Journal of  Mammalogy, 1986, 67:680-692.

Qumsiyeh, M. B., D. A. Schlitter, and A. M. Disi.  New records and karyotypes of small mammals from Jordan. Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde, 1986, 51:139-146.

Schlitter, D. A., I. R. Aggundey, M. B. Qumsiyeh, K. Nelson, and R. L. Honeycutt. Taxonomic and distributional records on bats from Kenya. Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1986, 55(12):297-302.

Qumsiyeh, M. B., M. J. Hamilton, and D. A. Schlitter.  Problems of using Robertsonian rearrangements in determining monophyly: examples from the genera Tatera and Gerbillurus.Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, 1987, 44:198-208.

Owen, R. D. and M. B. Qumsiyeh.  The subspecies problem in the trident leaf-nosed bat, Asellia tridens: homomorphism in widely separated populations. Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde, 1987, 6:329-337.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. and R. K. Chesser.  Rates of protein, chromosome, and morphologic evolution in four genera of Rhombomyine gerbils. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 1988,  16(1):89-103.

Qumsiyeh, M. B.  Pattern of heterochromatic variation and phylogeny in the rodent family Gerbillidae. Texas Journal of Science, 1988,  40:63-70.

Qumsiyeh, M. B., R. J. Baker, S. Davis, J. C. Patton, and C. S. Hernandez. 

        Chromosomal evolution in Geomys  as revealed by G- and C-band studies.        

          Southwestern Naturalist , 1988,  33(1):1-13.

Qumsiyeh, M. B., R. D. Owen, and R. K. Chesser.  Differential rates of protein and chromosome evolution in bats of the family Rhinolophidae.Genome, 1988,  30:326-335.

Baker, R. J., M. B. Qumsiyeh, and I. L. Rautenbach.  Evidence for eight tandem and five centric fusions in the karyotype of Aethomys namaquensis. Genetica, 1988,  76:161-169.

Qumsiyeh, M. B., M. B. Valentine, and D. P. Suttle. Localization of the gene for uridine monophosphate synthase to human chromosome region 3q13 by in situ hybridization. Genomics, 1989, 5:160-162.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. Chromosomal fissions and phylogenetic hypotheses: Cytogenetic and allozymic variation between species of Meriones (Rodentia, Gerbillidae).Occasional Papers of the Musuem, Texas Tech Univ., 1989, 132:1-16.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. and D. P. Suttle. Cytogenetic analysis of amplification and deamplification of UMP synthase gene in Chinese hamster cells. Somatic Cell  and Molecular Genetics, 1989, 15:503-512.

Qumsiyeh, M. B., S.W. King, J. Arroyo-Cabrales, I. R. Aggundey, D. A. Schlitter, R. J. Baker, and K.J. Morrow. Complex chromosomal and immunological evolution in the morphologically similar species  of murid rodents of the Mastomys/Praomys Complex. Journal of Heredity,  1990, 81(1):58-65.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. and D. P. Suttle. Localization of the adenosine deaminase, transferrin, and UMP synthetase genes on Chinese hamster chromosomes 4 and 6 by

            in situ hybridization. Journal of Heredity, 1990, 81(2):111-116.

Pivnick, E. K., M. B. Qumsiyeh, A. T. Tharapel, J. B. Summitt, R. S. Wilroy. Partial duplication of the long arm of chromosome 6: a clinically recognizable syndrome. Journal of Medical Genetics, 1990, 27:523-526.

Qumsiyeh, M. B., A. T. Tharapel, L. P. Shulman, S. E. Elias, and J. L. Simpson. Anaphase lag as the most likely mechanism for monosomy X in direct cytotrophoblasts but not in mesenchymal core cells from the same villi. Journal of Medical Genetics, 1990, 27:780-781.

Qumsiyeh, M. B., J. N. Peeden, R. S. Wilroy, and A. T. Tharapel. High resolution replication banding combined with in situ hybridization for the delineation of a subtle chromosome rearrangement. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 1991, 41:99-101.

Qumsiyeh, M.B., E. D. Dempster, M. J. Hamilton and R. J. Baker. Cytogenetics and systematics of the rodent genus Gerbillurus. Journal of Mammalogy, 1991, 72(1):89-96.

Tharapel, A. T., M. B. Qumsiyeh, P. R. Martens, S. A. Tharapel, J. D. Dalton, J. C. Ward, and R. S. Wilroy. Identification of the origins of centromeres in whole-arm translocations using fluorescent in situ hybridization with alpha satellite DNA probes. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 1991, 40: 117-120.

Tharapel, S. A., M. B. Qumsiyeh, and G. Photopulos. Numerical chromosome abnormalities associated with early clinical stages of gynecologic tumors. Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics. 1991, 55:89-96.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. Karyotype of the East European hedgehog, Erinaceus concolor from Jordan.  Zeitschrift für Säugetierkundliche. 1991, 56:375-377.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. Letter to the editor. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 1991, 34(4):468-469.

Qumsiyeh, M. B., J. D. Dalton, P. L. Gordon, R. S. Wilroy, and  A. T. Tharapel. Deletion of chromosome 15pter®q11.2 due to t(Y;15) in a boy with Prader-Willi syndrome. American Journal of Medical Genetics  1992, 42:109-111.

Qumsiyeh, M. B., J. D. Dalton, P. L. Gordon, R. S. Wilroy, and  A. T. Tharapel. Response to Zelante et al. American Journal of Medical Genetics. 1992, 44:846.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. and S. A. Tharapel. Detection of trisomy 12 in chronic lymphocytic leukemia using fluorescence in situ hybridization. Leukemia. 1992, 6(6): 602-605.

Qumsiyeh, M. B., Z. S. Amr, and A. M. Disi.  Systematics and distribution of the bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of Jordan. Dirasat (Jordan Univ. Publications). 1992, 9B(2):101-118.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. S. Goorha, and D. P. Suttle. Gene amplification and chromosome rearrangements: a study of a single cell lineage selected for amplification and deamplification of the UMP synthase gene. Cytogenetics Cell Genet., 1993, 62:162-168.

Qumsiyeh, M. B., Z. S. Amr, and D. M. Shafi.  Status and conservation of the carnivores of Jordan (Mammalia: Carnivora). Mammalia. 1993, 57(1):55-62.

Amr, Z. S. and Qumsiyeh, M. B.  Records of bat flies from Jordan, Libya, and Algeria. Entomological News. 1993, 104(1):43-46.

Qumsiyeh, M. B., and C. A. Stevens.  Two siblings with different phenotypes due to adjacent-1 segregation of a submicroscopic translocation t(4;5)(p16.3;p15.31)mat. Am. J. Med. Genet. 1993,  47:387-391.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. Distal limb anomalies, Robin sequence and deletions in 4q31-->qter (letter to the editor). Am. J. Med. Genet. 1993, 49:255.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. and J. W. Bickham. Chromosomes and relationships of long eared bats of the genera Plecotus and Otonycteris.  Journal of Mammalogy. 1993, 74(2):376-382.

Benkhalifa, M., P. Malet, M. B. Qumsiyeh, D. Boucher, V. Belliec, Y. Menzo. Chromosome aberrations in normal and translocated human sperm: role in reproduction pathology. Referens. Geneo. Obstet. 1994, 2(3):288-296.

Johnson, D. W., M. B. Qumsiyeh, M. Benkhalifa, and D. Marchuk. Assignment of human transforming growth factor b type I and type III receptor genes (TGFbR1 and TGFbR3) to 1p32-33 and 9q33q34. Genomics, 1995, 28:356-357.

Taiar, N., M. B. Qumsiyeh, J. Poulet, M. Benkhalifa.  Delineation of translocation X;Y using DNA probes.  Ann. Genet. 1995, 38(2):102-105.

Stevens, C. A. and M. B. Qumsiyeh. Syndromal frontonasal dysostosis in a child with a complex translocation involving chromosomes 3, 7, and 11. Am. J. Med. Genet. 1995, 55:494-497.

Teebi, A. S.,  M. B. Qumsiyeh, C. H. Meyers-Seifer, M. S. Neyn.  Velo-facio-skeletal syndrome in a mother and daughter.  Am. J. Med. Genet. 1995, 58: 8-12.

Qumsiyeh, M. B., A. Tomasi, and M. M. Taslimi.  Short arm deletion and isochromosome 18 formation detected at amniocentesis.J. Med Genet. 1995, 32(12):991-993.

Helali, A. N., A. K. Iafolla, and M. B. Qumsiyeh. A case of duplication of 13q32-->qter with mild phenotype: Patau syndrome and duplications of 13q revisited. J. Med. Genet. 1996, 33:600-602.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. and J. A. Peppers. Sensitivity and specificity of whole chromosome paint (WCP) probes are correlated with the size of translocated segments. Am. J. Med. Genet., 1996, 65:173.

Benkhalifa, M., Y. Menezo, L. Janny, J. L. Pouly, and M. B. Qumsiyeh. Cytogenetics of uncleaved oocytes and arrested zygotes in IVF programs.  J. Assisted Repr. & Genetics. 1996, 13(2):140-148.

Qumsiyeh, M. B., J. L. Coate, J. A. Peppers, P. K. Kennedy, M. L. Kennedy. Robertsonian chromosomal rearrangements in the short-tailed shrew, Blarina carolinensis in western Tennessee. Cytogenet Cell Genet. 1997, 76:153-158.

DeCastro, C. M., S. M. Rabe, S. D. Langdon, D. E. Fleenor, M. N. Ahmed, M. B. Qumsiyeh, R. E. Kaufman.  Genomic structure and chromosomal localization of PE-2 (ERF), a novel ETS factor with potential tumor suppressor properties.Genomics., 1997, 42:200-207

Byrd, J.C., R. W. Weiss, D. C. Arthur, D. Shah, M. R. Baer, D. Laurence, F. Davey, E. S. Trikha, A. J. Carroll. R. Tantavahi, and M. B. Qumsiyeh. S. R. Patil, J. Moore, R. J. Mayer, C. A. Scjiffer, C. D. Bloomfield. Extramedullary leukemia adversely affects hematologic complete remission rate and overall survival in patients with t(8;21)(q22;q22): Results from CALGB 8461. J Clin Oncology . 1997, 15(2):466-475.

Hinson,T., T. V. Damodaran, X. X. Chang, M. B. Qumsiyeh, M. F. Seldin, and D. L. Quarles.  Identification of putative transmembrane receptors homologous to the calcium sensing G-coupled receptor. Genomics. 1997, 45:279-289.

Qumsiyeh, M. B., Adhvaryu, S. G., L. Fry-Mehltretter, T. Peters-Brown, and Helen Kay.  Discrepancies in cytogenetic findings in chorionic villi. J. Maternal Fetal Medicine, 1997, 6:351-355.

Adhvaryu, S. G., M. Decker-Phillips, Trisha Peters-Brown, E. Livingstone, and M. B. Qumsiyeh.  Marker chromosome evolution in a three generation family. Prenatal Diagnosis, 1998, 118:178-181.

Liao, M-J, X-X Zhang, M. B. Qumsiyeh,  and T. Van Dyke. No role for V(D)J recombination in p53-deficient thymic lymphoma. Mol. Cellular Biol. 1998, 18(6):3495-3501.

Qumsiyeh, M. B.  Chromosome abnormalities in the placenta and spontaneous abortions. J. Matern.-Fetal Med. 1998, 7:210-212.

Heinonen, K., K. Mrozek, D. Lawrence, D. C. Arthur, M. J. Pettenati, J. Stamberg, M. B. Qumsiyeh, R. S. Verma, J. MacCallum, C. A. Schiffer, C. D. Bloomfield. Clinical characteristicsof patients with de novo acute myeloid leukemia and isolated trisomy 11: Cancer and leukemia group B study 8461. Br. J. Haematol.  1998, 101-513-520.

Ahmed, M. N., A. P. Killam, K. Thompson, and M. B. Qumsiyeh. Unconjugated estriol as an indication for prenatal diagnosis of steroid sulfatase deficiency by in situ hybridization. Obstetrics & Gynecology. 1998, 92:687-689.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. , Z. S. Amr, R. M. Al-Oran. Further records of bats from Jordan and a synopsis. Turkish J. Zoology. 1998, 22:277-284.

Klintworth, G. K., J. Sommer, L. Han, L., G. OBrian, M. N. Ahmed, M. B. Qumsiyeh, et al. Familial subepithelial corneal amyloidosis (gelatinous drop-like corneal dystrophy): Exclusion of linkage to lactoferrin gene. Molecular Vision  1998, 4:31 (www.molvis.org/molvis/v4/p31).

Byrd, J.C., D. Laurence, D. C. Arthur, M. J. Pettenati, R. Tantavahi, M. B. Qumsiyeh, J. Stamburg, F. Davey, C. A. Schiffer, C. D. Bloomfield. Patients with isolated trisomy 8 in acute myeloid leukemia are not cured with cytarabine-based chemotherapy: Results from CALGB 8461. Clinical Cancer Research  1998, 4(5):1235-1241.

Ashley-Koch, A., C.M. Wolpert, L. Zaeem, M. M. Menold, M. B. Qumsiyeh et al. Genetic studies of autistic disorders and chromosome 7. Genomics. 1999, 61:227-236.

Qumsiyeh, M.B.,  S. Barker, S. Dover,  P. K. Kennedy, and M. P. Kennedy. A potential model for early stages of chromosomal evolution by concentric Robertsonian fans: a large area of polymorphism in southern short-tailed shrews (Blarina carolinensis). Cytogenet. Cell Genet. 1999, 87(1-2):27-31

Curotti, G., M. Benkhalifa, C. Raybaud, F. Picard, V. Belec, M. B. Qumsiyeh. De novo highly complex chromosome rearrangement (CCR) involving five breakpoints with congenital anomalies analyzed by FISH. Genetic Counseling. 1999, 10:259-264.

Zhang, XX, L. J. Robinson, T. T. Stenzel, and M. B. Qumsiyeh.  Translocation t(15;17)(q22;q12-21) as a secondary chromosomal abnormality in a case of acute monoblastic leukemia with tetrasomy 8. Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 1999, 113:9-13.

Qumsiyeh, M.B., C. Cheng, J. Eyre, K. P. Mann, and X-X Zhang. Tetrasomy 8 evolving into a translocation triplication 8q in a case of acute monocytic leukemia. Cancer Genet & Cytogenet. 1999, 116:10-15.

Powell, J., T. Traweek, M. B. Qumsiyeh, and P. M. Rosoff. A novel chromosomal rearrangement associated with therapy-related acute leukemia. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 1999, 112:173-177.

Byrd, J.C., R. Dodge, A. Carroll, M. Baer, C. Edwards, J. Stamburg, M. B. Qumsiyeh, J. O. Moore, R. J. Mayer, R. Larson, C. D. Bloomfield. Patients with t(8;21)(q22;q22) and acute myeloid leukemia have a superior disease free and overall survival when repetitive cycles of high-dose cytarabine are administered: Results from CALGB 8461. J Clin Oncology. 1999, 17:3767-3775.

Shen, J.J., D. Mattern, D. S. Millington, S. Hillman, M. D. Feezor, M. J. Bennett, M. B. Qumsiyeh, S. G. Kahler, Y.-T. Chen, and J. L. K. VanHove. Acylcarnitine produced in vitro by cultured fibroblasts of patients with long-chain 3-hydroxyacylcoenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency and other disorders of fatty acid oxidation. Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease. 2000, 23(1):27-44.

Ahmad, M. N.,  K. Kim, B. Haddad, A. Berchuck, M. B. Qumsiyeh. Comparative genomic hybridization studies in hydatidiform moles and choriocarcinoma: Amplification of 7q21-q31 and loss of 8p12-p21 in choriocarcinoma. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 2000, 116:10-15.

Melvin, E.C., T. George, G. Worley, A. Franklin, J. Mackey, K. Viles, N. Shah, C. R. Drake, D. McLone, J. Nye, J. Oakes, C. McLaaughlin, M. L. Walker, P. Peterson, T. Brei, C. Buran, J. Aben,  M.B. Qumsiyeh, J. Vance, M.A. Pericack-Vance, M. C. Speer, and the NTD Collaborative Group. Genetic studies of neural tube defects. Pediatr Neurosurg. 2000, 32(1):1-9.

Ahmed, M. N., G. R. DeLong, and M. B. Qumsiyeh.  Postnatal Developmental delay (PNDD) and chromosome abnormalities. Clinical Pediatrics 2000, 39:233-235.

Sen, F., V. Prieto, C. Shea, and M. B. Qumsiyeh.  Increased incidence of trisomy 8 in AML with skin infiltration: use of FISH in diagnosis of leukemia cutis. Diagnostic Molecular Pathology 2000, 9(4):190-194.

Wolpert, C. M., M. M. Menold, M. P. Bass, M. B. Qumsiyeh, S. L. Donneely, S. Ravan, R. Abramson, H. Wright, L. O. Maddox, J. M. Vance, J. R. Gilbert, M. L. Cuccaro, and M. A. Peroicak-Vance. Three patients with autistic disorder and isodicentric chromosome 15. . Am J Med Genetics. 2000, 96(3): 365-372

Qumsiyeh, M. B., K-R. Kim, W. Bradford. Cytogenetics and mechanisms of spontaneous abortions:  Increased apoptosis and decreased cellular proliferation in chromosomally abnormal villi. Cytogenet Cell Genet 2000, 88(3-4):230-235.

Rafi, S., H. ElGebaly, and M. B. Qumsiyeh. A high incidence of TEL/AML1 fusions accompanying other chromosome abnormalities in childhood B-precursor ALL. Diagnostic Molecular Pathology 2000, 9(4):184-189.

Henegariu O, Bray-Ward P, Artan S, Vance GH, Qumsyieh M, Ward DC. Small marker chromosome identification in metaphase and interphase using centromeric multiplex fish (CM-FISH). Lab Invest. 2001, 81(4):475-81.

Smith DS. Leone G. DeGregori J. Ahmed MN. Qumsiyeh MB. Nevins JR. Induction of DNA replication in adult rat neurons by deregulation of the retinoblastoma/E2F G1 cell cycle pathway. Cell Growth & Differentiation. 2000, 11(12):625-33.

Kone J, Chen W, Savinelli T, Arroyo J, Boyd K, Buchberg A, Wu Y, Nimmakayalu M, Copeland N, Jenkins N, Qumsiyeh M, Hu P, Prescott A, Wu H, Yang L, Roe B, Perkins A. F-MuLV Acceleration of myelomonocytic tumorigenesis in SV40 T antigen transgenic mice is accompanied by retroviral insertion at Fli1 and a novel locus, Fim-4. Leukemia. 2002; 16:1827-1834.

Qumsiyeh, MB., S Rafi, C Sarri, M Grigoriadou, J Gyftodimou, E Pandelia, H Laskari , M B Petersen. Double supernumerary isodicentric chromosomes derived from 15 resulting in partial hexasomy. Am J Med Genet. 2003, 116A:356-359.

Hui, P., J. G. Howe, J. Crouch, M. Nimmakayalu, M. B. Qumsiyeh, G. Tallini, S. D. Flynn, B. R. Smith. Real-time quantitative RT-PCR of Cyclin D1 mRNA in mantle cell lymphoma: Comparison with FISH and immunohistochemistry. Leukemia and Lymphoma, 2003, 44(8):1385-1394.

Benkhalifa, M., S. Kahraman, D. Caserta, E. Domez, M. B. Qumsiyeh. Morphological and cytogenetic analysis of intact oocytes and blocked zygotes. Prenatal Diagnosis, 2003, 23(5):397-404

Yilmaz, Y., R. Klein, MB Qumsiyeh. Trisomy 6 acquired in lymphoid blast transformation of CML with t(9;22). Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 145:86-87.

Zhang, P, P Li, D Wang, S Huff, M Nimmakayalu, M Qumsiyeh, B Pober. FOXC1 gene deletion is associated with eye abnormalities in ring chromosome 6.  In press Am J Med Genet.

Benkhalifa M, S Kahraman, MD A Biricik, S Serteyl, E Domez,Y Kumtepe, M B Qumsiyeh. Cytogenetics and FISH analysis after round spermatid injection: intact oocytes to day 4 embryos. In press, Fertility and Sterility.

Qumsiyeh, M.B., Ahmed, M.N., K. Lucas, C. Shea, V. M. Prietto, Amplification of 20q13 and likely involvement of STK15 locus in development of “dysplastic” nevi and melanoma. Submitted to Melanoma Research.

Ballo, M.J., Kim, K-R, and M. B. Qumsiyeh. Trisomy of Chromosomes 7, 16, and 17 in Papillary Renal Cell Neoplasms: Detection in Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Sections by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization.  Submitted to Laboratory Investigation.

 Editorials, Reviews, Chapters (peer reviewed)

 Qumsiyeh, M. B. and J. K. Jones, Jr.  Rhinopoma hardwickii and R.  muscatellum. Mammalian Species, American Society of Mammalogists, 1986, 263:1-5.

Baker, R. J., M. B. Qumsiyeh, and C. S. Hood.  Role of chromosomal banding patterns in understanding mammalian evolution.  Pp. 67-96 in Current  Mammalogy, Vol. 1 (H. H. Genoways, ed.), Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York. 1987.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. and R. J. Baker. Comparative cytogenetics and the determination of primitive karyotypes. Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics, 1988, 47:100-103.

Baker, R. J. and M. B. Qumsiyeh.  Methods in chiropteran mitotic chromosomal studies.  Pp. 425-435 In Ecological and Behavioral Methods for the Study of Bats    (T. H. Kunz, ed.), Smithsonian Inst. Press, Washington DC. 1988.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. On the nature of controversies in evolutionary biology. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 1990, 33(3):421-430.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. and Z. S. Amr. Mammals of Jordan: Rodents. Al-Reem (Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature). 1991, 44:19-20. [In Arabic].

Qumsiyeh, M. B. and D. A. Schlitter. Cytogenetic data on the rodent family Gerbillidae. Occasional Papers of the Museum, Texas Tech University  1991, 144:1-20.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. Review of "Mammals of Arabia" by D. L. Harrison and P. J. Bates. Journal of Mammalogy  1992, 73(1):228-229.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. Review of "Mammals of Algeria" by K. Kowalski and B. Rzebik-Kowalska.  Journal of Mammalogy. 1992, 73(2):459-460.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. EEC syndrome (ectrodactyly, ectodermal dysplasia and cleft lip/palate) is on 7q11.2-q21.3. Clinical Genetics 1992, 42(2):101.

Suttle, D. P. and M. B. Qumsiyeh. A reversible selection system for UMP synthase gene amplification and deamplification.  Pp. 255-264 in R. Kellem (ed.)Gene Amplification in Mammalian Cells: Techniques and Applications . Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, NY, 543 pp. 1992.

Qumsiyeh, M. B.  Evolution of number and morphology of mammalian chromosomes.  J. Heredity. 1994, 85:455-465.

Gharaibeh, B. and M. B. Qumsiyeh. Otonycteris hemprichii. Mammalian Species, American Society of Mammalogists. No. 514, pp. 1-4.

Qumsiyeh, M. B.  Impact of rearrangements on function and position of chromosomes in the interphase nucleus and on human genetic disorders. Chromosome Research, 1995, 3:455-465.

Schlitter, D. A. and M. B. Qumsiyeh.  Rhinopoma microphyllum. Mammalian Species, American Society of Mammalogists. 1996, No 542, pp. 1-5, 4 figs.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. , Z. S. Amr, A. M. Budari. Status and conservation of Artiodactyla (Mammalia) in Jordan. Mammalia 1996, 60:417-430.

Qumsiyeh, M. B.,  M. Dasouki, and A. Teebi. Genetics of Palestinians and Jordanians. pp. 227-258 in "Genetic Disorders Among The Arabs" edited by Ahmad S. Teebi and T. A. Farag, Oxford Monographs in Genetics No. 33, Oxford Univ. Press. 1997.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. Organization and management of a cytogenetic laboratory in the twenty-first century.  Archives De l’Institute Pasteur Tunis, 1997, LXXIV (3/4): 26-27.

Fathallah, D. M., K. Dellagi, M. B. Qumsiyeh, and A. S. Teebi. Recent advances in molecular genetics of the Maghreb and the Middle East populations: The first Middle East Genetics Association of America (MEGA) conference. Am. J. Med. Genet. 1998, 78:90-91.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. Review of “Pathology of the Placenta” Third Edition by Benirschke and Kaufmann, Springer-Verlag, Int. J. Gynecol. Pathol. 1998, 17:93-94.

Qumsiyeh, M. B. Structure and function of the nucleus: anatomy and physiology of chromatin. Cellular Mol. Life Sci. (CMLS) 1999, 55:1129-1140.

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