John H. Edwards, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

John H. Edwards

British geneticist

Date of Birth: 26-Mar-1928

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 11-Oct-2007

Profession: physician, biologist, geneticist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About John H. Edwards

  • John Hilton Edwards (26 March 1928 – 11 October 2007) was a British medical geneticist.
  • Edwards reported the first description of a syndrome of multiple congenital malformations associated the presence of an extra chromosome.
  • The extra chromosome belonged to the E group of chromosomes which consisted of chromosomes 16, 17 and 18.
  • The condition is now known as Edwards syndrome or trisomy 18 syndrome.In 1979, Edwards was elected to fellowship of the Royal Society.
  • He was a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and Professor of Genetics at Oxford from 1979 to 1995.He was the son of the surgeon Harold C.
  • Edwards.
  • His brother is the geneticist and statistician A.W.F.
  • Edwards.
  • Early in his career, he worked under Lancelot Hogben, and was sometimes distinguished from the brother as "Hogben's Edwards".

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