Word: geneticists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Twelve disorders that I see here are founder-gene defects carried by the dozen families that established this population 300 years ago," observes Dr. D. Holmes Morton, 47, a pediatrician and geneticist who gave up an academic career to work among the Amish. One of those diseases, he has discovered, is glutaric aciduria, a metabolic deficiency that usually strikes children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. Often triggered by childhood illnesses such as chickenpox or strep throat, it can cause permanent brain injury that can lead to chronic disability, medical complications and even early death...
...this week's papers tried to determine whether stacking the statistical deck in this manner had skewed the results. When they looked at a broader population of women, the breast-cancer risk, even if a gene mutation was present, fell to 56%. National Institutes of Health geneticist Jeffrey Streuwig, who led one study, does not pretend this new number is the last word, but neither does he think the older, grimmer figure is a better one. "There is a lot of uncertainty," he says...
...been a long-term goal of ours to have a senior geneticist who does contemporary molecular genetics, beacuse we see research in that area complementing traditional research in the fossil record," said Peter T. Ellison, who also is curator of human biology at the Peabody Museum...
...appointment of Maryellen Ruvolo '74, a geneticist who studies the evolution of primates, will fill a gap in the anthropology department's research, according to department chair Peter T. Ellison...
...than 50 years ago wrote, "'Race' is the witchcraft of our time. The means by which we exorcise demons." Modern biology takes a similar though less dramatic view. At the cellular level, characteristics such as head shape or skin pigmentation are considered superficial variations in the species. To a geneticist, color-coding Homo sapiens looks more like a cultural than a scientific imperative...