Penn Medicine Provider
Medical Genetics
Mersedeh Rohanizadegan, MD, MPH
she/her
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Rena Rowan Breast Center
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About me

  • Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Translational Medicine and Human Genetics)

Education and training

  • Medical School: Tehran University
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  • Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Boston

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Rohanizadegan is a Penn Medicine physician.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Demarest K, Anantharajah A, Maxwell KN, Rohanizadegan M, Bradbury A, Nathanson KL, McCarthy AM, Domchek SM, Nayak A, Shah PD Pathogenic Germline Variants in Patients With Metaplastic Breast Cancer , JAMA Network Open: 2025


Kara K Landry, Michael J DeSarno, Lindsay Kipnis, Farid Barquet Ramos, Katelyn M Breen, Kaleigh Patton, Audrey Morrissette, Ryan M Buehler, Chinedu Ukaegbu, Mersedeh Rohanizadegan, Matthew B Yurgelun, Sapna Syngal, Huma Q Rana, Judy E Garber Prevalence and Distribution of Unexpected Actionable Germline Pathogenic Variants Identified on Broad-Based Multigene Panel Testing Among Patients With Cancer , JCO Precision Oncology: 2024


Bert Callewaert, Eva Vanbelleghem, Tim Van Damme, Aude Beyens, Sofie Symoens, Kathleen Claes, Julie De Backer, Ilse Meerschaut, Floris Vanommeslaeghe, Sighurd Delanghe, Jenneke Van den Ende, Tessi Beyltjens, Eleanor Scimone, Mark Lindsay, Lisa Schimmenti, Alicia Hinze, Emily Dunn, Natalia Gomez-Ospina, Isabelle Vandernoot, Thomas Delguste, Sandra Coppens, Valérie Cormier-Daire, Marco Tartaglia, Livia Garavelli, Joseph Shieh, Senol Demir, Esra Arslan Ateş, Martin Zenker, Mersedeh Rohanizadegan, Greysha Rivera-Cruz, Sofia Douzgou Houge, Myhre Syndrome Foundation, and Angela Lin Myhre syndrome in adulthood: clinical variability and emerging genotype-phenotype correlations , European Journal of Medical Genetics: 2024


Spisak S, Tisza V, Nuzzo PV, Seo JH, Pataki B, Ribli D, Sztupinszki Z, Bell C, Rohanizadegan M, Stillman DR, Alaiwi SA, Bartels AB, Papp M, Shetty A, Abbasi F, Lin X, Lawrenson K, Gayther SA, Pomerantz M, Baca S, Solymosi N, Csabai I, Szallasi Z, Gusev A, Freedman ML. A biallelic multiple nucleotide length polymorphism explains functional causality at 5p15.33 prostate cancer risk locus , Nat Commun, 14: 2023,5118


Rohanizadegan M, Stokes S, Schneider KA, George S, Merriam P, Garber JE Landscape of germline pathogenic variants in cancer susceptibility genes in patients with sarcoma. , American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) annual meeting, Hybrid: 2022


Rohanizadegan M, Kipnis L, Stokes S, Bychkovsky BL, Scheib RG, Rana HQ, Garber JE Casting a Wide Net: Finding actionable results in non-breast cancer genes on multi-gene panel testing in a breast cancer cohort. , American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting, Virtual: 2021


Rohanizadegan M, Tracy S, Galarreta CI, Poorvu T, Buchmiller TL, Bird LM, Estroff JA, Tan WH Genetic diagnoses and associated anomalies in fetuses prenatally diagnosed with esophageal atresia , Am J Med Genet A, 182(8): 2020,1890-1895


Rohanizadegan M, Siddharath A, Retterer K, Hung C, Bodamer O The tale of two genes: from next-generation sequencing to phenotype , Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud, 6(2): 2020,a004846


Bowler TG, Pradhan K, Kong Y, Bartenstein M, Morrone KA, Sridharan A, Kessel RM, Shastri A, Giricz O, Bhagat TD, Gordon-Mitchell S, Rohanizadegan M, Hooda L, Datt I, Przychodzen BP, Parmar S, Maqbool S, Maciejewski JP, Steidl U, Greally JM, Verma A Misidentification of MLL3 and other mutations in cancer due to highly homologous genomic regions , Leuk Lymphoma, 60(13): 2019,3132-3137


Steers NJ, Li Y, Drace Z, D'Addario JA, Fischman C, Liu L, Xu K, Na YJ, Neugut YD, Zhang JY, Sterken R, Balderes O, Bradbury D, Ozturk N, Ozay F, Goswami S, Mehl K, Wold J, Jelloul FZ, Rohanizadegan M, Gillies CE, Vasilescu EM, Vlad G, Ko YA, Mohan S, Radhakrishnan J, Cohen DJ, Ratner LE, Scolari F, Susztak K, Sampson MG, Deaglio S, Caliskan Y, Barasch J, Courtney AE, Maxwell AP, McKnight AJ, Ionita-Laza I, Bakker SJL, Snieder H, de Borst MH, D'Agati V, Amoroso A, Gharavi AG, Kiryluk K. Genomic Mismatch at LIMS1 Locus and Kidney Allograft Rejection , N Engl J Med, 380(20): 2019,1918-1928


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