Correspondence. Surnames, 'Pfeffer' to 'Tyrrell'

File consists of correspondence with people who have surnames from Pfeffer to Tyrrell, related to the seminar on, "Genetic Testing", which was held at the Wellcome Institute on 13 July 2001. The seminar was part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. The transcript of this seminar was published as Volume 17 of the Witness Seminar series, D.A. Christie and E.M. Tansey (editors), Genetic Testing, (London: Wellcome Trust, 2003).

Details of the seminar correspondence, primarily between the chair (Professor Marcus Pembrey), organisers of the meeting (Professor Doris Zallen and Dr Daphne Christie), editors of the published transcript (D.A. Christie and E.M. Tansey) and others include:

Detailed information for the seminar, commentary on the transcripts and feedback on the meeting from participants. Professor Paul Polani provided copies of biographies for Guido Pontecorvo and Charles Edmund Ford taken from Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Professor Polani also provided part-copies of several articles including; Mary F. Lyon, "Some Milestones in the History of X-Chromosome Inactivation", Annual Review of Genetics, vol.26, pp17-28, 1992; Philip Avner and Edith Heard, "X-Chromosome Inactivation: Counting, Choice and Initiation", Nature Reviews, vol.2, January 2001; Barbara R. Migeon, Catherine H. Lee, Ashis K. Chowdhury, and Heather Carpenter, "Species Differences in TSIX/Tsix Reveal the Roles of These Genes in X-Chomosome Inactivation", American Journal of Human Genetics, vol.71, pp.286-293, 2002; and Paul E. Polani and John A. Crolla, "A Test of the Production Line Hypothesis of Mammalian Oogenesis", Human Genetics, vol.88, pp.64-70, 1991.

Correspondence with those not listed as participants including; Professor David Price-Evans; Paddy Ricard who provided comments on the transcript; Professor Hilary Rose (attendee); Iziah Edwin Sama; Professor Ellen Solomon; and Joanna Sumner (attendee).

2001-2003

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The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.