biography
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Garrod, Sir Archibald (Edward)
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| lived:
| (1857–1936)
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| biography:
| Physician, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, where he went on to hold a chair of medicine (1920–7). His study of inherited human metabolic diseases, described in his Inborn Errors of Metabolism (1909), was far ahead of its time: he showed that Mendelian genetics applied to humans, and correctly proposed a connection between an altered gene (a mutation) and a blocked metabolic pathway causing a specific disease. This concept, basic to biochemical genetics, was strangely neglected for 30 years. |
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