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and I think I did the right thing there by establishing groups for diagnosis
for
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responsible for itself; they were not under me as a laboratory director.
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th re were not any
transmissible x-ray induced mutations in the mouse histocompatibilty system.
I should also add that this work led me to have a general interest in
genetics work at the Medical School. Harvard at that time did not haye a
department devoted to medical genetics.
established
Instead there was/a loose
confederation of workers from several departments in several hos itals
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called the Cengter for Human Genetics, of which I served as the Director
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for some years.