Patricia Jacobs

Patricia Jacobs FRS FMedSci (born October 1934) is a distinguished British geneticist, fellow of the Royal society. She is Professor of Human Genetics in University of Southampton at Salisbury District Hospital. In 1993, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. [ [http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=2214 The Royal Society – Gender profile of the Fellowship ] Accessed 2008-07-21]

In 1959, she was the first to describe a chromosomal abnormality in humans, the additional X chromosome (the 47,XXY karyotype) in Klinefelter syndrome. [cite journal
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In 1981, she received the William Allan Memorial Award from the American Society of Human Genetics [cite journal
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title = The William Allan Memorial Award. Presented to Patricia A. Jacobs, D.Sc., at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, Dallas, October 28-31, 1981.

journal = Am J Hum Genet
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She was the first recipient of the KS&A Patricia Jacobs Lifetime Achievement Award from the United Kingdom charity Knowledge Support & Action. [ [http://www.genetic.org/knowledge/support/action/C143/ Knowledge Support & Action - Patricia Jacobs Lifetime Achievement Award] ]

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External links

* [http://www.socgen.ucla.edu/hgp/chronology.html Chronology of Human Genetics]
* [http://www.soton.ac.uk/mediacentre/guidetoexpertise/patricia_jacobs.html University of Southampton - Professor Patricia Jacobs]