Naomi Meeks, MD

Associate Professor, Pediatrics-Clinical Genetics and Metabolism


FacultyPhoto
Medical School
  • MD, University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine (2006)
Undergraduate School
  • BS, University of Iowa (IA) (2001)
Internship
  • Indiana University School of Medicine Program (2007)
Residency
  • Indiana University School of Medicine Program, Pediatrics (2009)
Fellowships
  • University of Colorado (Children's Hospital Colorado) Program, Clinical Genetics and Genomics (MD) (2011)
  • University of Colorado, Clinical Molecular Genetics and Genomics (2012)
Languages
English
Department
Pediatrics-Clinical Genetics and Metabolism

Professional Titles

  • Assistant Professor - Pediatrics, Genetics
  • Medical Director 22q Deletion Clinic

Publications

  • Weisfeld-Adams JD, Tkachuk AK, Maclean KN, Meeks NL, Scott SA. A de novo 2.78-Mb duplication on chromosome 21q22.11 implicates candidate genes in the partial trisomy 21 phenotype. NPJ Genom Med. 2016;1. PubMed PMID: 27840696
  • Fountain MD, Aten E, Cho MT, Juusola J, Walkiewicz MA, Ray JW, Xia F, Yang Y, Graham BH, Bacino CA, Potocki L, van Haeringen A, Ruivenkamp CA, Mancias P, Northrup H, Kukolich MK, Weiss MM, van Ravenswaaij-Arts CM, Mathijssen IB, Levesque S, Meeks N, Rosenfeld JA, Lemke D, Hamosh A, Lewis SK, Race S, Stewart LL, Hay B, Lewis AM, Guerreiro RL, Bras JT, Martins MP, Derksen-Lubsen G, Peeters E, Stumpel C, Stegmann S, Bok LA, Santen GW, Schaaf CP. The phenotypic spectrum of Schaaf-Yang syndrome: 18 new affected individuals from 14 families. Genet Med. 2016 May 19. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 27195816
  • Lessel D, Schob C, Küry S, Reijnders MRF, Harel T, Eldomery MK, Coban-Akdemir Z, Denecke J, Edvardson S, Colin E, Stegmann APA, Gerkes EH, Tessarech M, Bonneau D, Barth M, Besnard T, Cogné B, Revah-Politi A, Strom TM, Rosenfeld JA, Yang Y, Posey JE, Immken L, Oundjian N, Helbig KL, Meeks N, Zegar K, Morton J, The Ddd Study, Schieving JH, Claasen A, Huentelman M, Narayanan V, Ramsey K, Brunner HG, Elpeleg O, Mercier S, Bézieau S, Kubisch C, Kleefstra T, Kindler S, Lupski JR, Kreienkamp HJ. De Novo Missense Mutations in DHX30 Impair Global Translation and Cause a Neurodevelopmental Disorder. Am J Hum Genet. 2018 Jan 4;102(1):196. PubMed PMID: 29304375
  • Weisfeld-Adams JD, Tkachuk AK, Maclean KN, Meeks NL, Scott SA. Erratum: A de novo 2.78-Mb duplication on chromosome 21q22.11 implicates candidate genes in the partial trisomy 21 phenotype. NPJ Genom Med. 2017;2:17001. PubMed PMID: 29263847
  • Martinelli S, Krumbach OHF, Pantaleoni F, Coppola S, Amin E, Pannone L, Nouri K, Farina L, Dvorsky R, Lepri F, Buchholzer M, Konopatzki R, Walsh L, Payne K, Pierpont ME, Vergano SS, Langley KG, Larsen D, Farwell KD, Tang S, Mroske C, Gallotta I, Di Schiavi E, Della Monica M, Lugli L, Rossi C, Seri M, Cocchi G, Henderson L, Baskin B, Alders M, Mendoza-Londono R, Dupuis L, Nickerson DA, Chong JX, Meeks N, Brown K, Causey T, Cho MT, Demuth S, Digilio MC, Gelb BD, Bamshad MJ, Zenker M, Ahmadian MR, Hennekam RC, Tartaglia M, Mirzaa GM. Functional Dysregulation of CDC42 Causes Diverse Developmental Phenotypes. Am J Hum Genet. 2018 Feb 1;102(2):309-320. PubMed PMID: 29394990
  • Lessel D, Schob C, Küry S, Reijnders MRF, Harel T, Eldomery MK, Coban-Akdemir Z, Denecke J, Edvardson S, Colin E, Stegmann APA, Gerkes EH, Tessarech M, Bonneau D, Barth M, Besnard T, Cogné B, Revah-Politi A, Strom TM, Rosenfeld JA, Yang Y, Posey JE, Immken L, Oundjian N, Helbig KL, Meeks N, Zegar K, Morton J, Schieving JH, Claasen A, Huentelman M, Narayanan V, Ramsey K, Brunner HG, Elpeleg O, Mercier S, Bézieau S, Kubisch C, Kleefstra T, Kindler S, Lupski JR, Kreienkamp HJ. De Novo Missense Mutations in DHX30 Impair Global Translation and Cause a Neurodevelopmental Disorder. Am J Hum Genet. 2017 Nov 2;101(5):716-724. PubMed PMID: 29100085
  • Ahmad M, Hermanson ME, Enzenauer R, Palestine A, Lin C, Meeks N, McCourt E. Lipogranulomatous subconjunctival nodules: a novel presentation in Blau syndrome. J AAPOS. 2017 Jun;21(3):249-251. PubMed PMID: 28532706
  • Mason-Suares H, Toledo D, Gekas J, Lafferty KA, Meeks N, Pacheco MC, Sharpe D, Mullen TE, Lebo MS. Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia-associated variants are associated with neo-natal lethal Noonan syndrome. Eur J Hum Genet. 2017 Apr;25(4):509-511. PubMed PMID: 28098151
  • Fountain MD, Aten E, Cho MT, Juusola J, Walkiewicz MA, Ray JW, Xia F, Yang Y, Graham BH, Bacino CA, Potocki L, van Haeringen A, Ruivenkamp CA, Mancias P, Northrup H, Kukolich MK, Weiss MM, van Ravenswaaij-Arts CM, Mathijssen IB, Levesque S, Meeks N, Rosenfeld JA, Lemke D, Hamosh A, Lewis SK, Race S, Stewart LL, Hay B, Lewis AM, Guerreiro RL, Bras JT, Martins MP, Derksen-Lubsen G, Peeters E, Stumpel C, Stegmann S, Bok LA, Santen GW, Schaaf CP. The phenotypic spectrum of Schaaf-Yang syndrome: 18 new affected individuals from 14 families. Genet Med. 2017 Jan;19(1):45-52. PubMed PMID: 27195816
  • Neerman N, Faust G, Meeks N, Modai S, Kalfon L, Falik-Zaccai T, Kaplun A. A clinically validated whole genome pipeline for structural variant detection and analysis. BMC Genomics. 2019 Jul 16;20(Suppl 8):545. PubMed PMID: 31307387
  • Shapira SK, Tian LH, Aylsworth AS, Elias ER, Hoover-Fong JE, Meeks NJL, Souders MC, Tsai AC, Zackai EH, Alexander AA, Yeargin-Allsopp M, Schieve LA. A Novel Approach to Dysmorphology to Enhance the Phenotypic Classification of Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Study to Explore Early Development. J Autism Dev Disord. 2019 May;49(5):2184-2202. PubMed PMID: 30783897
  • Coughlin CR 2nd, Swanson MA, Spector E, Meeks NJL, Kronquist KE, Aslamy M, Wempe MF, van Karnebeek CDM, Gospe SM Jr, Aziz VG, Tsai BP, Gao H, Nagy PL, Hyland K, van Dooren SJM, Salomons GS, Van Hove JLK. The genotypic spectrum of ALDH7A1 mutations resulting in pyridoxine dependent epilepsy: A common epileptic encephalopathy. J Inherit Metab Dis. 2019 Mar;42(2):353-361. PubMed PMID: 30043187
  • Schirwani S, Albaba S, Carere DA, Guillen Sacoto MJ, Milan Zamora F, Si Y, Rabin R, Pappas J, Renaud DL, Hauser N, Reid E, Blanchet P, Foulds N, Dixit A, Fisher R, Armstrong R, Isidor B, Cogne B, Schrier Vergano S, Demirdas S, Dykzeul N, Cohen JS, Grand K, Morel D, Slavotinek A, Albassam HF, Naik S, Dean J, Ragge N, Cinzia C, Tedesco MG, Harrison RE, Bouman A, Palen E, Challman TD, Willemsen MH, Vogt J, Cunniff C, Bergstrom K, Walia JS, Bruel AL, Kini U, Alkuraya FS, Slegesky V, Meeks N, Girotto P, Johnson D, Newbury-Ecob R, Ockeloen CW, Prontera P, Lynch SA, Li D, Graham JM Jr, Balasubramanian M. Expanding the phenotype of ASXL3-related syndrome: A comprehensive description of 45 unpublished individuals with inherited and de novo pathogenic variants in ASXL3. Am J Med Genet A. 2021 Nov;185(11):3446-3458. PubMed PMID: 34436830
  • Finn E, Kripps K, Chambers C, Rapp M, Meeks NJL, Xu F, Chen W, Larson AA, Nokoff NJ. A Novel Intronic Pathogenic Variant in STAR With a Dominant Negative Mechanism Causes Attenuated Lipoid Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia. J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep. 2021 Jan-Dec;9:23247096211014685. PubMed PMID: 33966472
  • Mostovoy Y, Yilmaz F, Chow SK, Chu C, Lin C, Geiger EA, Meeks NJL, Chatfield KC, Coughlin CR, Surti U, Kwok PY, Shaikh TH. Genomic regions associated with microdeletion/microduplication syndromes exhibit extreme diversity of structural variation. Genetics. 2021 Feb 9;217(2). PubMed PMID: 33724415
  • Hansen AW, Arora P, Khayat MM, Smith LJ, Lewis AM, Rossetti LZ, Jayaseelan J, Cristian I, Haynes D, DiTroia S, Meeks N, Delgado MR, Rosenfeld JA, Pais L, White SM, Meng Q, Pehlivan D, Liu P, Gingras MC, Wangler MF, Muzny DM, Lupski JR, Kaplan CD, Gibbs RA. Germline mutation in POLR2A : a heterogeneous, multi-systemic developmental disorder characterized by transcriptional dysregulation. HGG Adv. 2021 Jan 14;2(1). PubMed PMID: 33665635
  • Brunet T, McWalter K, Mayerhanser K, Anbouba GM, Armstrong-Javors A, Bader I, Baugh E, Begtrup A, Bupp CP, Callewaert BL, Cereda A, Cousin MA, Del Rey Jimenez JC, Demmer L, Dsouza NR, Fleischer N, Gavrilova RH, Ghate S, Graf E, Green A, Green SR, Iascone M, Kdissa A, Klee D, Klee EW, Lancaster E, Lindstrom K, Mayr JA, McEntagart M, Meeks NJL, Mittag D, Moore H, Olsen AK, Ortiz D, Parsons G, Pena LDM, Person RE, Punj S, Ramos-Rivera GA, Sacoto MJG, Bradley Schaefer G, Schnur RE, Scott TM, Scott DA, Serbinski CR, Shashi V, Siu VM, Stadheim BF, Sullivan JA, Švantnerová J, Velsher L, Wargowski DS, Wentzensen IM, Wieczorek D, Winkelmann J, Yap P, Zech M, Zimmermann MT, Meitinger T, Distelmaier F, Wagner M. Defining the genotypic and phenotypic spectrum of X-linked MSL3-related disorder. Genet Med. 2021 Feb;23(2):384-395. PubMed PMID: 33173220
  • Shelkowitz E, Chan CM, Jones T, Nakano SJ, Meeks NJL. A novel GNAS variant presents with disorders of GNAS inactivation and cardiomyopathy. Am J Med Genet A. 2022 Jul;188(7):2147-2152. PubMed PMID: 35347857
  • Hallgrímsson B, Aponte JD, Katz DC, Bannister JJ, Riccardi SL, Mahasuwan N, McInnes BL, Ferrara TM, Lipman DM, Neves AB, Spitzmacher JAJ, Larson JR, Bellus GA, Pham AM, Aboujaoude E, Benke TA, Chatfield KC, Davis SM, Elias ER, Enzenauer RW, French BM, Pickler LL, Shieh JTC, Slavotinek A, Harrop AR, Innes AM, McCandless SE, McCourt EA, Meeks NJL, Tartaglia NR, Tsai AC, Wyse JPH, Bernstein JA, Sanchez-Lara PA, Forkert ND, Bernier FP, Spritz RA, Klein OD. Automated syndrome diagnosis by three-dimensional facial imaging. Genet Med. 2020 Oct;22(10):1682-1693. PubMed PMID: 32475986
  • Ng BG, Eklund EA, Shiryaev SA, Dong YY, Abbott MA, Asteggiano C, Bamshad MJ, Barr E, Bernstein JA, Chelakkadan S, Christodoulou J, Chung WK, Ciliberto MA, Cousin J, Gardiner F, Ghosh S, Graf WD, Grunewald S, Hammond K, Hauser NS, Hoganson GE, Houck KM, Kohler JN, Morava E, Larson AA, Liu P, Madathil S, McCormack C, Meeks NJL, Miller R, Monaghan KG, Nickerson DA, Palculict TB, Papazoglu GM, Pletcher BA, Scheffer IE, Schenone AB, Schnur RE, Si Y, Rowe LJ, Serrano Russi AH, Russo RS, Thabet F, Tuite A, Villanueva MM, Wang RY, Webster RI, Wilson D, Zalan A, Wolfe LA, Rosenfeld JA, Rhodes L, Freeze HH. Predominant and novel de novo variants in 29 individuals with ALG13 deficiency: Clinical description, biomarker status, biochemical analysis, and treatment suggestions. J Inherit Metab Dis. 2020 Nov;43(6):1333-1348. PubMed PMID: 32681751
  • Tian LH, Wiggins LD, Schieve LA, Yeargin-Allsopp M, Dietz P, Aylsworth AS, Elias ER, Hoover-Fong JE, Meeks NJL, Souders MC, Tsai AC, Zackai EH, Alexander AA, Dowling NF, Shapira SK. Mapping the Relationship between Dysmorphology and Cognitive, Behavioral, and Developmental Outcomes in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Res. 2020 Jul;13(7):1227-1238. PubMed PMID: 32567802
  • Van Hove JL, Lohr NJ. Metabolic and monogenic causes of seizures in neonates and young infants. Mol Genet Metab. 2011 Nov;104(3):214-30. PubMed PMID: 21839663
  • Bartnik M, Derwinska K, Gos M, Obersztyn E, Kolodziejska KE, Erez A, Szpecht-Potocka A, Fang P, Terczynska I, Mierzewska H, Lohr NJ, Bellus GA, Reimschisel T, Bocian E, Mazurczak T, Cheung SW, Stankiewicz P. Early-onset seizures due to mosaic exonic deletions of CDKL5 in a male and two females. Genet Med. 2011 May;13(5):447-52. PubMed PMID: 21293276
  • Lohr NJ, Molleston JP, Strauss KA, Torres-Martinez W, Sherman EA, Squires RH, Rider NL, Chikwava KR, Cummings OW, Morton DH, Puffenberger EG. Human ITCH E3 ubiquitin ligase deficiency causes syndromic multisystem autoimmune disease. Am J Hum Genet. 2010 Mar 12;86(3):447-53. PubMed PMID: 20170897
  • Zhang Y, Malekpour M, Al-Madani N, Kahrizi K, Zanganeh M, Lohr NJ, Mohseni M, Mojahedi F, Daneshi A, Najmabadi H, Smith RJ. Sensorineural deafness and male infertility: a contiguous gene deletion syndrome. J Med Genet. 2007 Apr;44(4):233-40. PubMed PMID: 17098888
  • Hunter JE, Jenkins CL, Bulkley JE, Gilmore MJ, Lee K, Pak CM, Wallace KE, Buchanan AH, Foreman AKM, Freed AS, Goehringer S, Manickam K, Meeks NJL, Ramos EM, Shah N, Steiner RD, Subramanian SL, Trotter T, Webber EM, Williams MS, Goddard KAB, Powell BC. ClinGen's Pediatric Actionability Working Group: Clinical actionability of secondary findings from genome-scale sequencing in children and adolescents. Genet Med. 2022 Jun;24(6):1328-1335. PubMed PMID: 35341655
  • Shelkowitz E, Chan CM, Jones T, Nakano SJ, Meeks NJL. A novel GNAS variant presents with disorders of GNAS inactivation and cardiomyopathy. Am J Med Genet A. 2022 Jul;188(7):2147-2152. PubMed PMID: 35347857
  • Hunter JE, Jenkins CL, Bulkley JE, Gilmore MJ, Lee K, Pak CM, Wallace KE, Buchanan AH, Foreman AKM, Freed AS, Goehringer S, Manickam K, Meeks NJL, Ramos EM, Shah N, Steiner RD, Subramanian SL, Trotter T, Webber EM, Williams MS, Goddard KAB, Powell BC. ClinGen's Pediatric Actionability Working Group: Clinical actionability of secondary findings from genome-scale sequencing in children and adolescents. Genet Med. 2022 Jun;24(6):1328-1335. PubMed PMID: 35341655
  • Wu CW, Badreddine J, Chang J, Huang YM, Kim FJ, Wild T, Tsai AC, Meeks N, Donalisio Da Silva R, Molina WR, Schumacher FR. Population genetics analysis of SLC3A1 and SLC7A9 revealed the etiology of cystine stone may be more than what our current genetic knowledge can explain. Urolithiasis. 2023 Aug 10;51(1):101. PubMed PMID: 37561200
  • Crenshaw MM, Meyers ML, Brown K, Slegesky V, Duis J, Elias ER, Saenz M, Shi W, Filmus J, Meeks NJL. Five siblings expand the spectrum of GPC6-related skeletal dysplasia. Am J Med Genet A. 2023 Oct;191(10):2571-2577. PubMed PMID: 37353964
  • Hiatt SM, Trajkova S, Sebastiano MR, Partridge EC, Abidi FE, Anderson A, Ansar M, Antonarakis SE, Azadi A, Bachmann-Gagescu R, Bartuli A, Benech C, Berkowitz JL, Betti MJ, Brusco A, Cannon A, Caron G, Chen Y, Cochran ME, Coleman TF, Crenshaw MM, Cuisset L, Curry CJ, Darvish H, Demirdas S, Descartes M, Douglas J, Dyment DA, Elloumi HZ, Ermondi G, Faoucher M, Farrow EG, Felker SA, Fisher H, Hurst ACE, Joset P, Kelly MA, Kmoch S, Leadem BR, Lyons MJ, Macchiaiolo M, Magner M, Mandrile G, Mattioli F, McEown M, Meadows SK, Medne L, Meeks NJL, Montgomery S, Napier MP, Natowicz M, Newberry KM, Niceta M, Noskova L, Nowak CB, Noyes AG, Osmond M, Prijoles EJ, Pugh J, Pullano V, Quélin C, Rahimi-Aliabadi S, Rauch A, Redon S, Reymond A, Schwager CR, Sellars EA, Scheuerle AE, Shukarova-Angelovska E, Skraban C, Stolerman E, Sullivan BR, Tartaglia M, Thiffault I, Uguen K, Umaña LA, van Bever Y, van der Crabben SN, van Slegtenhorst MA, Waisfisz Q, Washington C, Rodan LH, Myers RM, Cooper GM. Deleterious, protein-altering variants in the transcriptional coregulator ZMYM3 in 27 individuals with a neurodevelopmental delay phenotype. Am J Hum Genet. 2023 Feb 2;110(2):215-227. PubMed PMID: 36586412
  • Harris KT, Pique DG, Wehrli LA, Trecartin A, Roach J, Meeks NJ, Nokoff NJ, Wilcox DT, Bischoff A.  "Anorectal malformation in a 46,XY patient with a de novo stop-loss variant in PPP1R12A and associated difference in sexual development: A case report."  J Peds Surg Case Reports.  2023 June 10; 95. 
  • Lessel D, Schob C, Küry S, Reijnders MRF, Harel T, Eldomery MK, Coban-Akdemir Z, Denecke J, Edvardson S, Colin E, Stegmann APA, Gerkes EH, Tessarech M, Bonneau D, Barth M, Besnard T, Cogné B, Revah-Politi A, Strom TM, Rosenfeld JA, Yang Y, Posey JE, Immken L, Oundjian N, Helbig KL, Meeks N, Zegar K, Morton J, The Ddd Study, Schieving JH, Claasen A, Huentelman M, Narayanan V, Ramsey K, Brunner HG, Elpeleg O, Mercier S, Bézieau S, Kubisch C, Kleefstra T, Kindler S, Lupski JR, Kreienkamp HJ. De Novo Missense Mutations in DHX30 Impair Global Translation and Cause a Neurodevelopmental Disorder. Am J Hum Genet. 2018 Jan 4;102(1):196. PubMed PMID: 29304375
  • Coughlin CR 2nd, Swanson MA, Spector E, Meeks NJL, Kronquist KE, Aslamy M, Wempe MF, van Karnebeek CDM, Gospe SM Jr, Aziz VG, Tsai BP, Gao H, Nagy PL, Hyland K, van Dooren SJM, Salomons GS, Van Hove JLK. The genotypic spectrum of ALDH7A1 mutations resulting in pyridoxine dependent epilepsy: a common epileptic encephalopathy. J Inherit Metab Dis. 2018 Jul 24. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30043187

Professional Memberships

  • American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), Member
  • American College of Medical Genetics & Genomics, Member

Practice Locations

Children's Hospital Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
13123 East 16th Ave
Aurora, CO 80045
720-777-1234

Hospital Affiliation
  • Children's Hospital Colorado

Specialty Information

Specialties
  • Pediatrics, Board Certification (2009)
  • Clinical Genetics and Genomics (MD), Board Certification (2011)
  • Clinical Molecular Genetics and Genomics, Board Certification (2013)
Conditions & Treatments
  • Genetic Conditions and Testing
Clinical Interests
22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Differences of Sexual Development

Care Philosophy
I chose the field of Genetics because of the ability to provide valuable information for patients, their families and their medical providers. I find the most joy in helping find answers to those difficult questions including identifying an underlying diagnosis and helping families understand the impact to them.