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Phyllis McAlpine

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Canadian geneticist

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Genetics
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Molecular Biology
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According to Wikipedia, Phyllis Jean McAlpine was a Canadian geneticist. She was a pioneer in mapping the human genome and served as Chair of the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee. Education McAlpine was awarded an honours bachelor's degree at Western University where she won a gold medal in zoology. She received a master's degree from the University of Toronto in 1966. Her thesis was called An assessment of the creatine kinase test in the detection of carriers of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. She went on to complete a PhD at University College London in 1970 with a thesis entitled Studies on the genetic variation of phosphoglucomutase in man. McAlpine was mentored and supervised by women in her field throughout her education. Her undergraduate work was performed under Helen Battle, and Margaret Thompson was her advisor in Toronto. Her PhD supervisor was Harry Harris.

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