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Hippocrates, 18–19, 122 Horst Bickel, 42
Human Genome Project, 60–63, 67, Theodor Boveri, 29
103 Francis Collins, 58, 62, 110, 115–116
Carl Correns, 24
intersex, 118 Francis Crick, 31–37, 50
introns, 10, 70 Charles Darwin, 19–22, 24–25, 27
Hugo de Vries, 24–25
meiosis, 20–21 and doctors, 18, 37, 122
Mendel’s laws, 22–26, 28–29 Asbjørn Følling, 41
mitosis, 20–21 Rosalind Franklin, 31–35, 37, 50
mutations, 6, 8–9, 13, 15–17, 25, 30–31, William Gahl, 9, 11–12
37, 40, 50–51, 53, 57–59, 68–70, Francis Galton, 27
74–75, 80, 83–84, 89, 94–95, 101, Raymond Gosling, 32, 37
104, 112–113, 115, 117 Robert Guthrie, 42–44, 51
Jiankui He, 114–116
National Human Genome Research
Institute, 9, 51, 58, 62 Har Gobind Khorana, 53
National Institute of Child Health and Gregor Mendel, 19, 22–30
Human Development, 11 Josef Mengele, 28
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Thomas Hunt Morgan, 29–30
9, 11, 13–17, 60–63, 96, 101, 103, Hermann Joseph Muller, 30
106–107, 110, 115 Marshall Nirenberg, 53
Undiagnosed Diseases Network Frederick Sanger, 53–55
(UDN), 11 Nettie Maria Stevens, 29
Undiagnosed Diseases Program Erich von Tschermak-Seysenegg, 25
(UDP), 9, 11, 13, 16 Lap-Chee Tsui, 58
newborn screening, 38–39, 41–46, James Watson, 31–37, 50
48–49, 51, 59 Maurice Wilkins, 31–32, 34–35, 37,
nucleotides, 52–56, 63, 67, 71, 89 50
Edmund Beecher Wilson, 29
Ötzi, 82 Semenya, Caster, 118–121
sex cells, 19–21, 105, 108, 112, 116, 123
phenylalanine (Phe), 39–42, 46–47, sickle cell disease, 44, 104, 106–107,
49, 97 109, 112–113
phenylketonuria (PKU), 39–44, 46–49,
51 Tay-Sachs disease, 50, 113
polymorphisms, 89, 97 transgender, 119–121
Prader-Willi syndrome, 65
precision medicine, 72, 78, 123, 125 US Food and Drug Administration
(FDA), 45–46, 49, 94, 104, 122
recessive, 23–24, 40, 96–97, 101
red blood cells, 4, 70, 104, 107 Worster Drought syndrome, 65
X-rays, 30–32, 37, 53, 55–56
scientists, 6, 11, 45, 51, 63, 67, 70–74,
78–79, 99, 104–105, 107–113, 117
William Bateson, 25–29
Christine Bear, 59

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