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Alec Jeffreys
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British geneticist
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1943-06-29
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools
· 2009 · cited 59,281x
- Global, regional, and national prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adults during 1980–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
· 2014 · cited 9,238x
- 2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease
· 2021 · cited 5,001x
- 2017 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease
· 2017 · cited 4,835x
- Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)
· 2016 · cited 4,417x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1950-01-09 ) 9 January 1950 (age 76) , Oxford , Oxfordshire , England
- Education
- University of Oxford ( BA , DPhil )
- Known for
- Genetic fingerprinting
- Spouse
- Susan Miles ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1971 )
- Awards
- Mendel Medal (1987) Bicentenary Medal (1987) Colworth Medal (1987) Albert Einstein World Award of Science (1996) Louis-Jeantet Prize for Medicine (2004) Lasker award (2005) Royal Medal (2004) Copley Medal (2014) Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (2016)
- Fields
- Genetics
- Institutions
- University of Amsterdam University of Leicester
- Thesis
- Studies on the mitochondria of cultured mammalian cells (1975)
- Doctoral students
- Turi King
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Alec John Jeffreys (born 9 January 1950) is a British geneticist known for developing techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used worldwide in forensic science to assist police detective work and to resolve paternity and immigration disputes.
Jeffreys is professor of genetics at the University of Leicester, and became an honorary freeman of the City of Leicester on 26 November 1992. In 1994, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to genetics.
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