Margaret Pericak-Vance
Margaret Ann Pericak-Vance (born June 28, 1951) is an American human geneticist who is the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Professor of Human Genetics and director of the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami. She is known for her research on the genetics of common human diseases. This research has led to a number of findings of genes that increase the risk of certain diseases, such as apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer's disease, IL7R and multiple sclerosis, and complement factor H and macular degeneration.
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Margaret Pericak-Vance
Margaret Ann Pericak-Vance (born June 28, 1951) is an American human geneticist who is the Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Professor of Human Genetics and director of the John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami. She is known for her research on the genetics of common human diseases. This research has led to a number of findings of genes that increase the risk of certain diseases, such as apolipoprotein E and Alzheimer's disease, IL7R and multiple sclerosis, and complement factor H and macular degeneration.
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Alzheimer's Association's Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Award
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1951-06-28
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Post Doctoral Advisor: Robert C. Elston
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Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Biostatistics
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Research on the genetics of Alzheimer's disease
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Margaret A. Pericak-Vance
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Jeffery Marvin Vance
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Genetic linkage studies in Huntington's disease
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