Janet M. Legare, MD

Position title: Pediatrician, Clinical Professor

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Clinics

Professional Certifications and Education

Board Certification – Pediatrics
MD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Statement

Dr. Legare is interested in how babies develop after prematurity and brain insults. She participates in research on the early diagnosis of cerebral palsy. She also participates in skeletal dysplasia research and is the site PI for multiple clinical trials related to skeletal dysplasia. She serves on the medical advisory board for the Little People of America.

Curriculum Vitae

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Selected Publications

Brar, B. K., Bober, M. B., Gough, E., Hashmi, S. S., Hecht, J. T., Dujmusic, L., Little, M. E., Modaff, P., Pauli, R. M., Rodriguez-Buritica, D. F., Serna, M. E., Smid, C., Legare, J. M., & Hoover-Fong, J. E. (2023). Route of delivery does not impact postnatal surgical morbidity in pregnancies affected by fetal achondroplasia. Genetics in medicines, 25(7), 100845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gim.2023.100845
Tunkel, D. E., Gough, E., Bober, M. B., Hashmi, S. S., Hecht, J. T., Legare, J. M., Little, M. E., Modaff, P., Pauli, R. M., Rodriguez-Buritica, D., Serna, M. E., Smid, C. J., & Hoover-Fong, J. E. (2022). Otolaryngology Utilization in Patients With Achondroplasia: Results From the CLARITY Study. The Laryngoscope, 132(8), 1548–1554. https://doi.org/10.1002/lary.29915
Hoover-Fong, J. E., Schulze, K. J., Alade, A. Y., Bober, M. B., Gough, E., Hashmi, S. S., Hecht, J. T., Legare, J. M., Little, M. E., Modaff, P., Pauli, R. M., Rodriguez-Buritica, D. F., Serna, M. E., Smid, C., Liu, C., & McGready, J. (2021). Growth in achondroplasia including stature, weight, weight-for-height and head circumference from CLARITY: achondroplasia natural history study-a multi-center retrospective cohort study of achondroplasia in the US. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 16(1), 522. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13023-021-02141-4
Hoover-Fong, J. E., Alade, A. Y., Hashmi, S. S., Hecht, J. T., Legare, J. M., Little, M. E., Liu, C., McGready, J., Modaff, P., Pauli, R. M., Rodriguez-Buritica, D. F., Schulze, K. J., Serna, M. E., Smid, C. J., & Bober, M. B. (2021). Achondroplasia Natural History Study (CLARITY): a multicenter retrospective cohort study of achondroplasia in the United States. Genetics in Medicine, 23(8), 1498–1505. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41436-021-01165-2
Legare, J. M., Liu, C., Pauli, R. M., Alade, A. Y., Hashmi, S. S., Campbell, J. W., Smid, C. J., Modaff, P., Little, M. E., Rodriguez-Buritica, D. F., Serna, M. E., Hecht, J. T., Hoover-Fong, J. E., & Bober, M. B. (2021). Achondroplasia Natural History Study (CLARITY): 60-year experience in cervicomedullary decompression in achondroplasia from four skeletal dysplasia centers. Journal of Neurosurgery. Pediatrics, 2021;28:229–35. https://doi.org/10.3171/2020.12.PEDS20715
Legare JM, Smid CJ, Modaff P, Pauli RM. (2021). Achondroplasia is associated with increased occurrence of apparent life-threatening events. Acta Paediatrica, 110(6):1842-1846. doi: 10.1111/apa.15760.
Smid CJ, Legare JM, Modaff P, Pauli RM. (2021). Craniocervical junction issues after infancy in achondroplasia. American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part A, 185(1):182-189. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.61941.
Smid CJ, Legare JM, Modaff P, Pauli RM. (2020). Apparently benign craniocervical signs in achondroplasia: “neurologic leftovers” identified through a retrospective dataset. Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases, 15(1):301. doi: 10.1186/s13023-020-01584-5.
Buratti ME, Eickhoff J, Modaff P, Pauli RM, Legare JM. (2019). Weight gain velocity in infants with achondroplasia. American Journal of Medical Genetics A. 2019 Nov 6. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.61400.
Faye E, Modaff P, Pauli R, Legare J.(2018) Combined Phenotypes of Spondylometaphyseal Dysplasia-Kozlowski Type and Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Type 2C Secondary to a TRPV4 Pathogenic Variant. Molecular Syndromology, 10(3):154-160. doi: 10.1159/000495778.
Legare JM, Modaff P, Strom SP, Pauli RM, Bartlett HL. (2018). Geleophysic dysplasia: 48 year clinical update with emphasis on cardiac care. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. 176(11):2237-2242. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.40377.
Smid CJ, Modaff P, Alade A, Legare JM, Pauli RM. (2018). Acanthosis nigricans in achondroplasia. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. 31:e40506. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.40506.
Pauli RM, Legare JM. (2018). Achondroplasia. Updated 2018 May 10. In GeneReviews, edited by Adam MP, Ardinger HH, Pagon RA, Wallace SE, Bean LJH, Stephens K, Amemiya A.
Legare JM, Seaborg K, Laffin J, Giampietro PF. (2017). Diaphanospondylodysostosis and ischiospinal dysostosis, evidence for one disorder with variable expression in a patient who has survived to age 9 years. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. 173(10):2808-2813. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.38395.
George A, Zand DJ, Hufnagel RB, Sharma R, Sergeev YV, Legare JM, Rice GM, Scott Schwoerer JA, Rius M, Tetri L, Gamm DM, Bharti K, Brooks BP. (2016) Biallelic Mutations in MITF Cause Coloboma, Osteopetrosis, Microphthalmia, Macrocephaly, Albinism, and Deafness. American Journal of Human Genetics. 1;99(6):1388-1394. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2016.11.004.
Legare JM, Modaff P, Iskandar BJ, Pauli RM. (2016). Syringomyelia in hereditary multiple exostosis. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A. 170(11):2956-2959. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.37854.