Journal of Heredity Advance Access originally published online on September 19, 2006
Journal of Heredity 2006 97(5):538-539; doi:10.1093/jhered/esl021
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First Years of Human Chromosomes. The Beginning of Human Cytogenetics
First Years of Human Chromosomes. The Beginning of Human CytogeneticsPeter S. Harper.
Scion Publishing Ltd., Bloxham, UK, 2006. ISBN 1 904842 240. $ 59.00.
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Everyone who works in human cytogenetics should own and have read this book. It is a most accurate and comprehensive review of how the field started, how it developed, and it tells of the people who were the main contributors to this then developing science. It also includes fascinating vignettes of the principal actors of
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