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Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volume 17, 2016

The Great Adventure of an American Human Geneticist*

Abstract

It is my great pleasure to have been asked by the Editorial Committee of the to write a short autobiography of my life in genetics over the past 70 years. It has been a great adventure. I came both to America and to human genetics by a circuitous and ultimately very fortunate route. I hope the next generation of geneticists will enjoy reading about it.

Keyword(s): Ashkenazi Jewish genetics, autobiography, bone marrow transplantation, color vision, familial hyperlipidemia, G6PD deficiency, hemolytic anemia, hereditary spherocytosis, hypercholesterolemia, medical genetics, mentoring, pharmacogenetics
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The Great Adventure of an American Human Geneticist*
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