© 2004 The American Genetic Association
From Genes to Genomes: The Next Century of Heredity in America
From the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, U-3043, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 062693043
Address correspondence to Kent E. Holsinger at the address above, or e-mail: kent@darwin.eeb.uconn.edu.
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The origins of the American Genetic Association predate the rediscovery of Mendel, with Willet Hays' suggestion in 1899 that a professional association devoted to the study of hybridization and genetics was needed (Troyer and Stoehr 2003). Four years later the American Breeders Association was born, and in 1913 the American Breeders association became the American Genetic Association. Not until 1919 was