Ana Morales

Education

• Master of Science, Genetic Counseling, Brandeis University 
• PhD Candidate, Translational Health Sciences, George Washington University

Recent Grants

• Principal Investigator, Identification Methods, Patient Activation, and Cascade Testing for FH: IMPACT-FH Renewal Project Number: R01HL148246 
• Co-Investigator, Real-Time Genetic Diagnosis at the Point of Care Project Number: 1R01HG011799 
• Co-Investigator, Collaborative Approach to Reach Everyone with Familial Hypercholesterolemia: CARE-FH Project Number: R33HL161775 
• Co-Investigator, Making Genomic Medicine Routine in a Rural Healthcare System Project Number: 1 U01HG013796-01

Recent Publications

• Morales A, Jamison A, Hegele RA, Hemphill L, Gidding SS. A Personalized Medicine Approach is Best for Patients with Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia. Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 12, n. 12, dec. 2024. ISSN 2375-1924. 
• Morales A, Moretz C, Ren S, Smith E, Callis TE, Hall T, Hatchell KE, Nussbaum RL, Regalado E, Rojahn S, Vatta M, Esplin ED, Murillo J. Real-World Genetic Testing Utilization Among Patients With Cardiomyopathy. Circ Genom Precis Med. 2023 Dec 13:e004028. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGEN.122.004028. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38088168. 
• Morales A, Goehringer J, Sanoudou D. Evolving Cardiovascular Genetic Counseling Needs in the Era of Precision Medicine. Front Cardiovasc Med. 2023 Jun 23;10:1161029. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2023.1161029. PMID: 37424912; PMCID: PMC10325680.
• Vatta M, Regalado E, Parfenov M, Swartzlander D, Nagl A, Mannello M, Lewis R, Clemens D, Garcia J, Ellsworth RE, Morales A, Ting YL, Aradhya S. Analysis of TTN Truncating Variants in >74 000 Cases Reveals New Clinically Relevant Gene Regions. Circ Genom Precis Med. 2025 Feb 19:e004982. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGEN.124.004982. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39968638. 
• Gohlke J, Lindqvist J, Hourani Z, Heintzman S, Tonino P, Elsheikh B, Morales A, Vatta M, Burghes A, Granzier H, Roggenbuck J. Pathomechanisms of Monoallelic variants in TTN causing skeletal muscle disease. Hum Mol Genet. 2024 Sep 15:ddae136. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddae136. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39277846.