Assoc. Prof. Ahmet Yeşilyurt is a medical geneticist with a strong background in clinical and research genetics. He earned his Medical Genetics training at Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine in 2007 and has since built a career focused on genetic medicine and immunogenetics. In 2025 he joined Acıbadem Health Group, where he continues to apply his expertise in diagnostics, patient care, and multidisciplinary collaboration. He is an active member of several professional societies, including the American Society of Human Genetics, the European Society of Human Genetics, the Medical Genetics Association, the Turkish Immunology Association, and the Society for Transplantation Immunology and Genetics. These memberships reflect his commitment to staying current with advances in human genetics, immunology, and transplant-related genetic research. Assoc. Prof. Yeşilyurt is known for combining clinical insight with genetic knowledge to support personalized patient care, improve diagnostic accuracy, and contribute to collaborative research initiatives. He is dedicated to mentoring junior clinicians and researchers and to advancing the integration of genetic services within modern healthcare.
Education
- 2007 Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine Medical Genetics
- 1998 Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine
Experience
- 2025 Acibadem Health Group
- 2019 Acibadem Maslak Hospital Medical Genetics Outpatient Clinic / Medical Genetics Specialist
- 2019 Acibadem Labgen Genetic Evaluation Center / Director
- 2019 Acibadem Labmed Ankara Tissue Typing Laboratory / Supervisor
- 2018 – 2019 Yeni Yüzyıl University, Gaziosmanpasa Hospital, Genetic Diagnosis Center / Medical Genetics Specialist / Istanbul
- 2013 – 2017 Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Training and Research Hospital / Associate Professor / Genetic Diagnosis Center Supervisor / Tissue Typing Laboratory Supervisor / Ankara
- 2013 Reprogenetics, Livingston, NJ, USA / Visiting Scholar
- 2012 – 2013 Dr. Zekai Tahir Burak Women’s Health Training and Research Hospital, Genetic Diagnosis Center / Responsible Physician / Associate Professor Doctor / Ankara
- 2007 – 2012 Dr. Zekai Tahir Burak Women’s Health Training and Research Hospital, Genetics Center / Responsible Physician / Specialist Doctor / Ankara
- 2008 Charite University, Institute of Transfusion Medicine Berlin,GERMANY / Visiting Scholar
- 2003 – 2007 Atatürk University Faculty of Medicine / Dr.Ar.Assist. / Erzurum
- 1998 – 2003 M.E.B. Health Education Center / General Practitioner / Erzurum
Memberships
- American Society of Human Genetics
- Turkish Immunology Association
- Medical Genetics Association
- European Society of Human Genetics
- Society for Transplantation Immunology and Genetics
Publications
- Homozygous SQSTM1 nonsense variant identified in a patient with brainstem involvement,
Brain Dev. 2021 Nov;43(10):1039-1043 Kilic MA, Kipoglu O, Coskun O, Karacabey BN, Yesilyurt A, Yildiz EP, Aydinli N, Caliskan - Association of vitamin D receptor gene FokI and TaqI polymorphisms and risk of RDS
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2019 Feb 27:1-7 Ustun N, Eyerci N, Karadag N, Yesilyurt A, Zenciroglu A, Okumus N - Vitamin D status, serum lipid concentrations, and vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene polymorphisms in Familial Mediterranean fever
Bosn, J Basic Med Sci. 2018 Feb 20;18(1):21-28. Turhan T, Dogan HO, Bogdaycioglu N, Eyerci N, Omma A, Sari I, Yesilyurt A, Karaaslan Y - Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young due to Glucokinase, HNF1-A, HNF1-B, and HNF4-A Mutations in a Cohort of Turkish Children Diagnosed as Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus
Horm Res Paediatr. 2018;90(4):257-265 Ozsu E, Cizmecioglu FM, Yesiltepe Mutlu G, Yuksel AB, Caliskan M, Yesilyurt A, Hatun S - Efficacy of stem cell therapy in ambulatory and nonambulatory children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy – Phase I-II.
Degener Neurol Neuromuscul Dis. 2018 Oct 26;8:63-77 Dai A, Baspinar O, Yesilyurt A, Sun E, Aydemir CI, Oztel ON, Capkan DU, Pinarli F, Agar A, Karaoz E - Retinal and Choroidal Thickness in Adult Patients with Familial Mediterranean Fever,
Ophthalmic Epidemiol. 2017 Oct;24(5):346-351. Bicer T, Celikay O, Kosker M, Alp MY, Ozisler C, Yesilyurt A, Kucuk Bicer B, Gurdal C - Analysis of CYP1B1 in pediatric and adult glaucoma and other ocular phenotypes,
Mol Vis. 2016 Oct 17;22:1229-1238 Reis LM, Tyler RC, Weh E, Hendee KE, Kariminejad A, Abdul-Rahman O, Ben-Omran T, Manning MA, Yesilyurt A, McCarty CA, Kitchner TE, Costakos D, Semi - Association Between Keratoconus and Familial Mediterranean Fever in Turkey
Cornea. 2016 Jan;35(1):77-80 Kosker M, Arslan N, Alp MY, Ozisler C, Acar M, Dogan AS, Yesilyurt A, Gurdal C, - Nonclassical Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia and Pregnancy.
Case Rep Endocrinol. 2015;2015:296924 Cuhaci N, Aydin C, Yesilyurt A, Pinarli FA, Ersoy R, Cakir B - Thyroid hormone resistance in two patients with papillary thyroid microcarcinoma and their BRAFV600E mutation status
Arch Endocrinol Metab. 2015 Aug;59(4):364-6. Karakose, Melia; Caliskan, Mustafa; Arslan, Muyesser Sayki; Cakal, Erman; Yesilyurt, Ahmet; Delibasi, Tuncay, - BRAF(V600E) Mutation, RET/PTC1 and PAX8-PPAR Gamma Rearrangements in Follicular Epithelium Derived Thyroid Lesions – Institutional Experience and Literature Review
Balkan Med J. 2015 Apr;32(2):156-66. Sahpaz, Ahmet; Onal, Binnur; Yesilyurt, Ahmet; Han, Unsal; Delibasi, Tuncay, - The effects of commonly used intravitreal steroids on proliferation index of ciliary body-derived mesenchymal stem cells: an in vitro study,
Cutan Ocul Toxicol. 2015 Feb 25:1-5. Demir MN, Acar U, Sobaci G, Pinarli FA, Erginturk Acar D, Beyazyildiz E, Yesilyurt A, Delibasi T - The contralateral extremity has also benefit from the locally administered bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells and cord blood serum in diabetic ischemic wound healing
Stem Cell Rev. 2014 Feb;10(1):97-102. Ulus AT, Pinarli FA, Sonmez D, Yesilyurt A, Delibasi T., - Combined genetic mutations have remarkable effect on deep venous thrombosis and/or pulmonary embolism occurrence,
Gene. 2014 Feb 15;536(1):171-6 Simsek E, Yesilyurt A, Pinarli F, Eyerci N, Ulus AT, - Association between Pre-Eclampsia and Inherited Thrombophilias
Fetal Pediatr Pathol. 2013 Jun;32(3):213-7. Deveer R, Engin-Ustun Y, Akbaba E, Halisdemir B, Cakar E, Danisman N, Mollamahmutoglu L, Yesilyurt A, Candemir Z, - The effects of oral carvacrol treatment against H2O2 induced injury on isolated pancreatic islet cells of rats,
Islets. 2013 Jun 28;5(4). Dagli Gul AS, Fadillioglu E, Karabulut I, Yesilyurt A, Delibasi T., - A retrospective analysis of amniocenteses performed for advanced maternal age and various other indications in Turkish women,
J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2013 Feb;26(3):242-5 Danisman N, Kahyaoglu S, Celen S, Kahyaoglu I, Candemir Z, Yesilyurt A, Cakar ES, - OTX2 mutations contribute to the otocephaly-dysgnathia complex,OTX2 J Med Genet
Yesilyurt A, Boyadjiev SA,Kayserili H, Loget P, Carles D,Sergi C, Puvabanditsin S, Chen CP, Etchevers HC,Katsanis N, Mercer CL,Calvas P,Jabs EW J 2012 Chassaing N,Sorrentino S, Davis EE, Martin-Coignard D, Iacovelli A, Paznekas W, Webb BD, Faye-Petersen O, Encha-Razavi F, Lequeux L, Vigouroux A, - The relationship between carbon monoxide intoxication and sister chromatid exchange in lymphocyte cells
Toxicol Ind Health. 2012 Oct 31. Tarik O, Zeynep O, Hasan D, Mustafa U, Ahmet Y, Mevlit I, Sahin A., - Partial trisomy 8p (8p11.2–>pTER) and deletion of 13q (13q32–>qTER): case report,
Genet Couns. 2011;22(1):35-40. Yesilyurt A, Dilli D, Oguz S, Dilmen U, Altug N, Candemir Z, - The Protective Effect of Erdosteine on Radiocontrast Induced Nephrotoxicity in Rats
Environ Toxicol. 2011 Aug;26(4):395-402 Yesilyurt A, I. A. Erden, I. Bilgic, G. Erden, A. Albayrak, - Squamous cell carcinoma of the vulva in a virgin patient with Turner syndrome
J Gynecol Oncol. 2011 Sep;22(3):211-3. Tapisiz OL, Topcu O, Gungor T, Ozdal B, Sirvan L, Yesilyurt A - Assisted Reproductive Treatment Applications In Men With Normal Phenotype But 45,X/46,XY Mosaic Karyotype: Clinical And Genetic Perspectives”,
Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISI) , 199-202 pp., 2010 , DOI: 10.1016/S1028-4559(10)60042-3 S. Kilic, B. Yukse, E. Ozdemir, A. Yesilyurt, N. Tasdemir, I. Keskin, M. Dogan, - Evaluation of Ribavirin Genotoxicity with Sister Chromatid Exchange and Micronuclei Assays in Humans
Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences (ISI) , 241-246 pp., 2009 , DOI: 10.3906/sag-0804-26 A. Tatar, Z. Ozkurt, A. Hacımüftüoğlu, A. Yesilyurt, S. Vançelik - Primary Hypogonadism, Partial Alopecia, and Mullerian Hypoplasia: Report of a Third Family and Review”,
American Journal of Medical Genetics: Part A (ISI) , 501-504 pp., 2009 , DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.32645 A. Tatar, Z. Ocak, A. Tatar, A. Yesilyurt, B. Borekci,S. Oztas - A chromosomal-effect study of intensive phototherapy versus conventional phototherapy in newborns with jaundice
Mutation Research – Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis (ISI) , 17-20 pp., 2009 , DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2009.03.008 A. Karadag, A. Yesilyurt, S. Unal, I. Keskin, H. Demirin, N. Uras, U. Dilmen, M. M. Tatlı - Evaluation of the genotoxic effects of chronic low-dose ionizing radiation exposure on nuclear medicine workers
Nuclear Medicine and Biology (ISI) , 575?578 pp., 2009 , DOI: 10.1016/j.nucmedbio.2009.02.003 A. Sahin, A. Tatar, S. Oztas, B. Seven, E. Varoglu, A. Yesilyurt, A. K. Ayan - Tese and ICSI Results in Patients with Klinefelter Syndrome
Van Medical Journal , 63-66 pp., 2009 E. Özdemir, U. Öztürk, S. Kılıç, A. Yeşilyurt, N. Cicek, A. İmamoğlu - Seckel Syndrome with Spontaneous Chromosomal Instability
Turkish Journal of Medical Sciences (ISI) , 77-81 pp., 2008 A. Tatar, Z. Ocak, H. Döneray, E. Işık, A. Yeşilyurt, B. Özkan, S. Öztaş - Genotoxic effect of albendazole in pediatric patients with hepatic hydatid disease
International Journal of Infectious Diseases (ISI) , 446?449 pp., 2007 , DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2007.01.002 S. Oztas, A. B. Salman, A. Tatar, M. Yigiter, H. Yazgi, M. Ertek, A. Yesilyurt, Z. Ocak
