McGill Group in Medical Genetics

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McGill Group in Medical Genetics

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1972-2009

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McGill Group in Medical Genetics was formed in 1972 and was supported through funding by the Medical Research Council and subsequently by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) until 2009. The group originally formed in 1972 under the primary direction of Dr. F. Clarke Fraser and Dr. Charles Scriver and at the recommendation of Malcolm Brown, President of Canada’s Medical Research Council. During the latter half of the 20th century, medical genetics was a coalescing field, the development of which progressed rapidly during the 1960s and 1970s as clinicians sought to apply research into chromosomal abnormalities and biochemical genetics to the care and counseling of individual patients. The fourteen members of the McGill Group in Medical Genetics were: F. Clarke Fraser, Charles Scriver, Rima Rozen, David Rosenblatt, Reynold Gold, Leonard Pinsky, Emil Skamene, Peter Hechtman, Eric Shoubridge, Mark Trifiro, Andrew Karaplis, Robert MacKenzie, Roy Gravel, and Susie Tenenhouse. They represented medical specializations including teratology, biochemistry, population genetics, and endocrinology. Group members produced over 1,400 articles during the course of the group's history.

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MacKenzie, Robert

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Scriver, Charles R. (1930-)

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Scriver, Charles R.

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McGill Group in Medical Genetics

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Fraser, F. Clarke, 1920- (1920-2014)

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Fraser, F. Clarke, 1920-

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Rosenblatt, David

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Rosenblatt, David

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Rozen, Rima

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Rozen, Rima

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Gold, Reynold J. M.

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Gold, Reynold J. M.

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Pinsky, Leonard (July 2, 1935-January 17, 2020)

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Pinsky, Leonard

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McGill Group in Medical Genetics

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Skamene, Emil (born 1941)

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Skamene, Emil

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Hechtman, Peter (-2020)

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Hechtman, Peter

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McGill Group in Medical Genetics

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Shoubridge, Eric Alan, 1951-

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Shoubridge, Eric Alan, 1951-

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Trifiro, Mark

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Trifiro, Mark

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McGill Group in Medical Genetics

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Karaplis, Andrew

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Karaplis, Andrew

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McGill Group in Medical Genetics

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AD Mar. 2022

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Christopher Canning et al (2013). Medical Genetics at McGill: The History of a Pioneering Research Group. CBMH/BCHM / Volume 30:1 2013 / p. 31-54. https://www.mcgill.ca/ssom/files/ssom/pdf4.pdf
Leeming, W. (2004). The early history of medical genetics in Canada. Social History of Medicine, 17(3), 481-500. https://academic.oup.com/shm/article-pdf/17/3/481/4802088/170481.pdf

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