Marco Fraccaro

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Marco Fraccaro (born September 26, 1926 , † April 2, 2008 ) was one of the pioneers of human cytogenetics .

Life

Marco Fraccaro comes from Pavia . There he also completed high school and medical studies. In 1950 he became an assistant professor at the Institute for Pathological Anatomy, which at that time was under the direction of the geneticist Buzzati-Traverso. In 1954 he moved to Lionel Penrose at the Galton Laboratory, University College London . From there he moved to the Institute for Human Genetics in Uppsala (Sweden), to Jan Book , where he was deputy director of the institute from 1955 to 1958. During this time he published numerous papers in the field of human cytogenetics and specifically on anomalies of the sex chromosomes . In 1960 he was appointed to the then newly created cytogenetics laboratory of the Genetics Research Unit at Oxford University under the direction of Alan Stevenson.

In 1962 Marco Fraccaro returned to Pavia to the university there. He stayed there until his retirement in 2001 as a professor in the medical faculty.

The cat's eye syndrome is also known as Schmid-Fraccaro syndrome , as he was instrumental in the first description of the extra chromosome typical of this disease in 1965 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Patricia A. Jacobs, Bette Robson: Marco Fraccaro. In: European Journal of Human Genetics , 16, 2008, p. 1024, doi: 10.1038 / ejhg.2008.126 , accessed December 30, 2009
  2. ↑ G. Schachenmann et al .: Chromosomes in Coloboma and Anal Atresia. In: The Lancet . 2 (7406), 1965, p. 290, PMID 14330081 . Quoted in: Harold Chen: Atlas of genetic diagnosis and counseling. In: Humana Press . 2006, ISBN 1-58829-681-4 , pp. 136-137, Google books
personal data
SURNAME Fraccaro, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian doctor and geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1926
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 2008