Dr. Holmes Morton, Practitioner of Genetic/Genomic/Molecular Medicine
The Sunday New York Times Magazine has an intriguing feature story on Dr. Holmes Morton, a pediatrician and geneticist, who works in the Amish country of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Time was, he says, when all doctors treated genetic illness, though they didn’t yet think of themselves as geneticists. “We’ve been treating genetic disorders ever since the onset of the practice of medicine,” he says. “If your dad went deaf young and your granddad went deaf young, then odds were that you would go deaf young, and that was genetic, but we couldn’t find the gene or see the gene or know about the gene, so it was simply called medicine.”
My previous post about Dr. Morton - Studying Genetics in the Amish.
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Genetics and Health » Dr. D. Holmes Morton Revolutionizing Genetics and Medicine
Sep 22, 2006 at 2:08 pm
[…] The Baltimore Sun has a new profile of Dr. D. Homes Morton famous for treating genetic diseases in the Amish and Mennonite communities of Lancaster County, PA. Dr. Morton received a MacArthur Foundation fellowship this week. […]
Sharon Steiner
May 2, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Dear Dr. Morton
Can you suggest anything that I might be able to read about Larsen’s syndrom? My granddaughter has been diagnosed with this genetic disorder.
Thank you.
Sharon Steiner
donald di pace
May 24, 2007 at 3:38 pm
I would like to make a contribution for the Criger-Najjar syndrome. Who can I send this to?
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