A Century of Geneticists Mutation to Medicine

About this book

Genetics, like all scientific disciplines, is a human endeavor. Thus, the lives of geneticists – their friendships, colleagues and associations – play an important role in the historical development of the science. Genetics and the Lives of Geneticists summarizes the history of genetics by reviewing the lives of the prominent and influential researchers beginning with the earliest and simplest branches of genetics (studies of inheritance and mutation) and ending with the human genome project – the pinnacle of genetics research of the 20th century.

Contents

- Population Genetics and Evolution
- Mutation Research
- Cytogenetics
- Biochemical genetics
- Molecular biology
- Immunogenetics
- Behavior Genetics
- Quantitative Genetics
- Human and Medical Genetics
- The Human Genome Project

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Biography

Krishna Rao Dronamraju is an Indian-born geneticist and president of the Foundation for Genetic Research in Houston, Texas. Dronamraju received his PhD under the direction of J.B.S. Haldane at the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta. Dronamraju received advanced training at University College, London and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in genetics at the University of Alberta. He continued research on inbreeding in human populations such as the Amish population in Pennsylvania in collaboration with Victor A. McKusick at Johns Hopkins. He has published several books, especially with reference to the contributions of his mentor J. B. S. Haldane.