Dr. Alice Basinger

Medical Genetics

American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics

Medical Biochemical Genetics

Medical School: Wake Forest School of Medicine

Residency: University of North Carolina Hospitals

Fellowship: University of North Carolina Hospitals

Dr. Basinger specializes in medical genetics, a branch of medicine that focuses on our genes and how changes to genes can cause genetic disorders.

Families who come to see the team in the genetics clinic may be searching for a diagnosis for their child, or their child may already be diagnosed with a genetic disorder and in need of counseling and care over time.

Dr. Basinger’s special interests are diagnosis and treatment of metabolic disorders, which are genetic disorders of the biochemistry of the body. She also has a special interest in newborn screening.

The medical genetics team helps families understand the basics of human genetics and inheritance, suggests a testing plan if that is needed, and provides education on the child’s diagnosis and management plan.

Dr. Basinger enjoys answering questions, getting to know families over time, and learning how to work together for the child’s benefit.

Outside of work, she enjoys time with family and friends, cooking, exercising, and reading. She has a soft spot for pollinators and the plants that support them, farm stands, public libraries, and visiting the beach.

• Inborn errors of metabolism
• Newborn screening
• Congenital disorders of glycosylation

Schneider AL, Myers CT, Muir AM, Calvert S, Basinger A, Perry MS, Rodan L, Helbig KL, Chambers C, Gorman KM, King MD, Donkervoort S, Soldatos A, Bönnemann CG, Spataro N, Gabau E, Arellano M, Cappuccio G, Brunetti-Pierri N, Rossignol E, Hamdan FF, Michaud JL, Balak C, Mefford HC, Scheffer IE. FBXO28 causes developmental and epileptic encephalopathy with profound intellectual disability. Epilepsia. 2021 Jan;62(1):e13-e21. doi: 10.1111/epi.16784. Epub 2020 Dec 6.

O'Donnell-Luria AH, Pais LS, Faundes V, Wood JC, Sveden A, Luria V, Abou Jamra R, Accogli A, Amburgey K, Anderlid BM, Azzarello-Burri S, Basinger AA, Bianchini C, Bird LM, Buchert R, Carre W, Ceulemans S, Charles P, Cox H, Culliton L, Currò A; Deciphering Developmental Disorders (DDD) Study, Demurger F, Dowling JJ, Duban-Bedu B, Dubourg C, Eiset SE, Escobar LF, Ferrarini A, Haack TB, Hashim M, Heide S, Helbig KL, Helbig I, Heredia R, Héron D, Isidor B, Jonasson AR, Joset P, Keren B, Kok F, Kroes HY, Lavillaureix A, Lu X, Maas SM, Maegawa GHB, Marcelis CLM, Mark PR, Masruha MR, McLaughlin HM, McWalter K, Melchinger EU, Mercimek-Andrews S, Nava C, Pendziwiat M, Person R, Ramelli GP, Ramos LLP, Rauch A, Reavey C, Renieri A, Rieß A, Sanchez-Valle A, Sattar S, Saunders C, Schwarz N, Smol T, Srour M, Steindl K, Syrbe S, Taylor JC, Telegrafi A, Thiffault I, Trauner DA, van der Linden H Jr, van Koningsbruggen S, Villard L, Vogel I, Vogt J, Weber YG, Wentzensen IM, Widjaja E, Zak J, Baxter S, Banka S, Rodan LH. Heterozygous Variants in KMT2E Cause a Spectrum of Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Epilepsy. Am J Hum Genet. 2019 Jun 6;104(6):1210-1222. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2019.03.021. Epub 2019 May 9.

Dines JN, Golden-Grant K, LaCroix A, Muir AM, Cintrón DL, McWalter K, Cho MT, Sun A, Merritt JL, Thies J, Niyazov D, Burton B, Kim K, Fleming L, Westman R, Karachunski P, Dalton J, Basinger A, Ficicioglu C, Helbig I, Pendziwiat M, Muhle H, Helbig KL, Caliebe A, Santer R, Becker K, Suchy S, Douglas G, Millan F, Begtrup A, Monaghan KG, Mefford HC. TANGO2: expanding the clinical phenotype and spectrum of pathogenic variants. Genet Med. 2019 Mar;21(3):601-607. doi: 10.1038/s41436-018-0137-y. Epub 2018 Sep 24.

Vögtle FN, Brändl B, Larson A, Pendziwiat M, Friederich MW, White SM, Basinger A, Kücükköse C, Muhle H, Jähn JA, Keminer O, Helbig KL, Delto CF, Myketin L, Mossmann D, Burger N, Miyake N, Burnett A, van Baalen A, Lovell MA, Matsumoto N, Walsh M, Yu HC, Shinde DN, Stephani U, Van Hove JLK, Müller FJ, Helbig I. Mutations in PMPCB Encoding the Catalytic Subunit of the Mitochondrial Presequence Protease Cause Neurodegeneration in Early Childhood. Am J Hum Genet. 2018 Apr 5;102(4):557-573. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.02.014. Epub 2018 Mar 22.

Zarate YA, Smith-Hicks CL, Greene C, Abbott MA, Siu VM, Calhoun ARUL, Pandya A, Li C, Sellars EA, Kaylor J, Bosanko K, Kalsner L, Basinger A, Slavotinek AM, Perry H, Saenz M, Szybowska M, Wilson LC, Kumar A, Brain C, Balasubramanian M, Dubbs H, Ortiz-Gonzalez XR, Zackai E, Stein Q, Powell CM, Schrier Vergano S, Britt A, Sun A, Smith W, Bebin EM, Picker J, Kirby A, Pinz H, Bombei H, Mahida S, Cohen JS, Fatemi A, Vernon HJ, McClellan R, Fleming LR, Knyszek B, Steinraths M, Velasco Gonzalez C, Beck AE, Golden-Grant KL, Egense A, Parikh A, Raimondi C, Angle B, Allen W, Schott S, Algrabli A, Robin NH, Ray JW, Everman DB, Gambello MJ, Chung WK. Natural history and genotype-phenotype correlations in 72 individuals with SATB2-associated syndrome. Am J Med Genet A. 2018 Apr;176(4):925-935. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.38630. Epub 2018 Feb 13.

Peng Y, Shinde DN, Valencia CA, Mo JS, Rosenfeld J, Truitt Cho M, Chamberlin A, Li Z, Liu J, Gui B, Brockhage R, Basinger A, Alvarez-Leon B, Heydemann P, Magoulas PL, Lewis AM, Scaglia F, Gril S, Chong SC, Bower M, Monaghan KG, Willaert R, Plona MR, Dineen R, Milan F, Hoganson G, Powis Z, Helbig KL, Keller-Ramey J, Harris B, Anderson LC, Green T, Sukoff Rizzo SJ, Kaylor J, Chen J, Guan MX, Sellars E, Sparagana SP, Gibson JB, Reinholdt LG, Tang S, Huang T. Biallelic mutations in the ferredoxin reductase gene cause novel mitochondriopathy with optic atrophy. Hum Mol Genet. 2017 Dec 15;26(24):4937-4950. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddx377.

Tanaka AJ, Cho MT, Willaert R, Retterer K, Zarate YA, Bosanko K, Stefans V, Oishi K, Williamson A, Wilson GN, Basinger A, Barbaro-Dieber T, Ortega L, Sorrentino S, Gabriel MK, Anderson IJ, Sacoto MJG, Schnur RE, Chung WK. De novo variants in EBF3 are associated with hypotonia, developmental delay, intellectual disability, and autism. Cold Spring Harb Mol Case Stud. 2017 Nov 21;3(6):a002097. doi: 10.1101/mcs.a002097. Print 2017 Nov.

Zarate YA, Kalsner L, Basinger A, Jones JR, Li C, Szybowska M, Xu ZL, Vergano S, Caffrey AR, Gonzalez CV, Dubbs H, Zackai E, Millan F, Telegrafi A, Baskin B, Person R, Fish JL, Everman DB. Genotype and phenotype in 12 additional individuals with SATB2-associated syndrome. Clin Genet. 2017 Oct;92(4):423-429. doi: 10.1111/cge.12982. Epub 2017 Mar 7.

Petrovski S, Küry S, Myers CT, Anyane-Yeboa K, Cogné B, Bialer M, Xia F, Hemati P, Riviello J, Mehaffey M, Besnard T, Becraft E, Wadley A, Politi AR, Colombo S, Zhu X, Ren Z, Andrews I, Dudding-Byth T, Schneider AL, Wallace G; University of Washington Center for Mendelian Genomics, Rosen ABI, Schelley S, Enns GM, Corre P, Dalton J, Mercier S, Latypova X, Schmitt S, Guzman E, Moore C, Bier L, Heinzen EL, Karachunski P, Shur N, Grebe T, Basinger A, Nguyen JM, Bézieau S, Wierenga K, Bernstein JA, Scheffer IE, Rosenfeld JA, Mefford HC, Isidor B, Goldstein DB. Germline De Novo Mutations in GNB1 Cause Severe Neurodevelopmental Disability, Hypotonia, and Seizures. Am J Hum Genet. 2016 May 5;98(5):1001-1010. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2016.03.011. Epub 2016 Apr 21.

Lutz RE, D Dimmock, ES Schmitt, Q Zhang, LY Tang, C Reyes, E Truemper, RD McComb, A Hernandez, A Basinger, and LJ Wong LJ. De Novo Mutations in POLG Presenting with Acute Liver Failure or Encephalopathy. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr. 2009 Feb 25.

Wong, L-J, RK Naviaux, N Brunetti-Pierri, Q Zhang, E Schmitt, C Truong, M Milone, B Cohen, B Wical, J Ganesh, AA Basinger, BK Burton, K Swoboda, DL Gilbert, A Vanderver, RP Saneto, B Maranda, G Arnold, JE Abdenur, PJ Waters, and WC Copeland. Molecular and clinical genetics of mitochondrial diseases due to POLG mutations. Hum Mutation. 2008 29:E150-E172.

Kranz, C, AA Basinger, M Gucsavas-Calikoglu, L Sun, CM Powell, FW Henderson, AS Aylsworth, and HH Freeze.. Expanding spectrum of congenital disorder of glycosylation Ig (CDG-Ig): Siblings with a unique skeletal dysplasia, hypogammaglobulinemia, cardiomyopathy, genital malformations, and early lethality. Am. J. Med. Genet. Part A. 2007. Jun 15;143A:1371-1378.

Willis, MS, AA Basinger, Z Fan, S Pendyal, J Muenzer, and C Hammett-Stabler. Hepatosplenomegaly in an 8-month-old child. Lab Medicine. 2006. Nov;37(11):1-6.

Basinger, AA, JK Booker, DM Frazier, DD Koeberl, JA Sullivan, and J Muenzer. Glutaric acidemia type 1 in patients of Lumbee heritage from North Carolina. Mol Genet Metab. 2006. May;88(1)90-92.

Byerley, J, A Basinger, E Lau, and A White. Index of suspicion. Pediatr. Rev. 2004. July;25(7):253-7.

Wang, W, A Basinger, RA Neese, et al. Effect of nicotinic acid administration on hepatic very low density lipoprotein-triglyceride production. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2001. March;280(3):E540-7.

Wang, W, A Basinger, RA Neese, M Christiansen, and MK Hellerstein. Effects of nicotinic acid on fatty acid kinetics, fuel selection, and pathways of glucose production in women. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2000. July;279(1):E50-9.

Neese, RA, NL Benowitz, R Hoh, D Faix, AB LaBua, K Pun, and MK Hellerstein. Metabolic interactions between surplus dietary energy intake and cigarette smoking or its cessation. Am J Physiol. 1994. Dec;267(6 Pt 1):E1023-34.