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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:53-58
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Celebration

Genomic sequencing in the service of human rights

Kelly N Owens, Michelle Harvey-Blankenship and Mary-Claire King

Departments of Genome Sciences and Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195–7720, USA.

Keywords Human rights, forensics, DNA, genomics, sequencing, mitochondria, Argentina, Vukovar, Ovcara, Balkans

Accepted 11 October 2001

Dedication

Like everyone else who is a part of the celebration of the 80th year of Mervyn Susser and Zena Stein, the invitation to include my work in this collection has delighted, honoured and overwhelmed me. I have known Zena and Mervyn since I was 30, both my entire life as an independent scientist and my entire life as a mother. That I have been able to be both has been due to the example of Zena, more than anyone in the world. For 25 years, she has supported me intellectually and emotionally, with intercontinental collaborative projects or a cup of tea, whichever was more critical at the moment.

As my birthday present for Mervyn and Zena, I offer the story of genomic sequencing in the service of human rights, because it grows from the way they do science. Not that this is literally a Susser-Stein project. I have been swept . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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