2011 William Allan Award introduction: John M. Opitz.
2011 William Allan Award introduction: John M. Opitz.
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2011年威廉·艾伦奖简介:约翰·M·奥皮茨。
DOI:
10.1016/j.ajhg.2012.01.011
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
9.8
通讯作者:
Muenke,Maximilian
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作者:
Muenke,Maximilian
As a member of the awards committee of the American Society of Human Genetics, it is my privilege, great honor, and pleasure to introduce to you the winner of the 2011 William Allan Award: Dr. John M. Opitz. Dr. Opitz is unarguably a pioneer in the field of medical genetics. The year 2012 will mark 50 years of working in this field to which he has contributed over 500 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Opitz is a rare scholar and polyglot who speaks several languages in addition to his native German. He has used this knowledge to read texts in their original language and include pertinent references and ideas into his writings on embryology, fetal pathology, developmental biology, and medical genetics. Dr. Opitz is probably best known for working with patients and their families in order to observe and delineate many of the now classical genetic syndromes. He very well might be the single one geneticist who has described the most novel syndromes. In order to honor the patients rather than to call attention to the identifying clinician, Dr. Opitz named these syndromes after the first initials of the families that they affected, such as G syndrome, 1 BBB syndrome, 2 FG syndrome, 3 C syndrome, 4KBG syndrome, 5 and many others. However, some of them now bear his name as in Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome 6 and Opitz syndrome (for GBBB syndrome). Not only did Dr. Opitz delineate novel syndromes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, but he also helped to understand the constellation of findings in the context of normal and abnormal embryological development. It was Dr. Opitz who rediscovered the concept of developmental field defect in humans, 7, 8 a concept that was previously described in amphibians by the German Nobel Laureate Hans Spemann. Over the past two decades, Dr. Opitz has been actively involved in the identification of the underlying genetic bases of the various syndromes that he had previously described. 9–11 The disease-associated genes of two of these syndromes, Bohring-Opitz syndrome (ASXL1) 12 and KBG syndrome (ANKRD11), 13 were recently described.
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影响因子:
9.8
作者:
Sirmaci, Asli;Spiliopoulos, Michail;Tekin, Mustafa
通讯作者:
Tekin, Mustafa
DOI:
10.1002/ajmg.1320210102
发表时间:
1985
期刊:
American journal of medical genetics
影响因子:
--
作者:
J. M. Opitz;J. Reynolds
通讯作者:
J. Reynolds
DOI:
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发表时间:
1989
期刊:
American journal of medical genetics
影响因子:
--
作者:
Maximilian Münke
通讯作者:
Maximilian Münke
DOI:
10.1002/ajmg.1320300409
发表时间:
1988
期刊:
American journal of medical genetics
影响因子:
--
作者:
Maximilian Münke;Maximilian Münke;Beverly S. Emanuel;E. Zackai
通讯作者:
E. Zackai
DOI:
10.1007/bf00439020
发表时间:
1974-01-01
期刊:
ZEITSCHRIFT FUR KINDERHEILKUNDE
影响因子:
--
作者:
OPITZ, JM;KAVEGGIA, EG
通讯作者:
KAVEGGIA, EG