Article ID: CBB001320453

Roy J. Britten (1919--2012) (2012)

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Roy John Britten died on 21 January at the age of 92 in Corona del Mar, California. Born in Washington, DC, in 1919, his academic career took him to both coasts of the United States, where his fundamental discoveries in DNA sequence organization and gene expression influenced the fields of evolutionary and developmental biology and heralded the era of modern genomics

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Description Britten worked on DNA sequence organization and gene expression influenced the fields of evolutionary and developmental biology.


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Authors & Contributors
Gil Viry
Mark Wong
Rhodri Ivor Leng
James Lowe
Vermeulen, Niki
García-Sancho, Miguel
Concepts
Genetics
Human genetics
Biographies
Molecular sequencing
Genomics
Evolutionary developmental biology
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
19th century
Places
United States
Germany
China
Australia
Great Britain
Institutions
Human Genome Project
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