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Dr. Edmond Wonkam

PhD Graduate, Cameroon

Mr Wonkam Tingang is a General Practitioner, graduated from the University of Yaoundé I (in Cameroon) in 2015. He has a lot of interest in Human Genetics; for his MD graduation, he issued a thesis named: Clinical and genetic aspects of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy in some Cameroonian patients. He is currently enrolled in a PhD program in Human Genetics at the University of Cape Town, and focus his research in the genetic aetiology of hereditary hearing loss in Cameroon.

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Bi-Allelic MARVELD2 Variant Identified with Exome Sequencing in a Consanguineous Multiplex Ghanaian Family Segregating Non-Syndromic Hearing Loss

By: Elvis Twumasi Aboagye, Samuel Mawuli Adadey, Leonardo Alves de Souza Rios, Kevin K. Esoh, Edmond Wonkam-Tingang, Lettilia Xhakaza, Carmen de Kock, Isabelle Schrauwen, Lucas Amenga-Etego, Dirk Lang, Gordon A. Awandare, Suzanne M. Leal, Shaheen Mowla and Ambroise Wonkam

Cascade Testing for Fragile X Syndrome in a Rural Setting in Cameroon (Sub-Saharan Africa)

Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is the most common monogenic X-linked condition which causes variable degrees of Intellectual Disability (ID), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), delay in acquisition of speech and other cognitive skills; affecting one in 7143 males and one in 11,111 females [1–5]. Some individuals with FXS may present characteristics of facial appearance such as, a large forehead and prominent ears.