Copies of correspondence between Prof Albert de la Chapelle, and Dr Martin Bobrow regarding challenges to the buccal smear test

  • Chapelle, Albert de la (fl. 1987 : medical geneticist)
Date:
27 Jan 1987-8 Aug 1988
Reference:
UGC 188/8/4
Part of:
Papers of Malcolm Andrew Ferguson-Smith, geneticist, Professor of Medical Genetics, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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Copies of correspondence between Prof Albert de la Chapelle, and Dr Martin Bobrow regarding challenges to the buccal smear test. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Mostly concerning discussions over the inaccuracy and the ethics of sex chromatin tests and the possibility of using alternative tests instead. Also includes copies of correspondence between Dr Martin Bobrow and Professor Rodney Harris, between Prof Martin Bobrow and Dr Alan W Johnstone about raising this subject at the Clinical Genetics Society, and letter to Prof Martin Bobrow from Dr Joe J Hoo concerning the creation of a Working Group on Gender Verification in the International Olympic Committee to reconsider the use of the buccal smear test.

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27 Jan 1987-8 Aug 1988

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47 pages

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A digitised copy is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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The original material is held at Glasgow University Archive Services. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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