Margaret Pericak-Vance

Margaret Pericak-Vance

American human geneticist

📍 Buffalo, New York USA

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Margaret Ann Pericak-Vance 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, interleukin-7 receptor and multiple sclerosis, and complement factor H and macular degeneration.

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