John H. Edwards

British geneticist

John Hilton Edwards (26 March 1928 – 11 October 2007) was a British medical geneticist. Edwards reported the first description of a syndrome of multiple congenital malformations caused by the presence of an extra chromosome.[1]

In 1979, Edwards was elected to fellowship of the Royal Society.[2]

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  1. Edwards, J.; Harnden, D. G.; Cameron, A. H.; Crosse, V. M.; Wolf, O. H. (1960). "A New Trisomic Syndrome". The Lancet. 275 (7128): 787–790. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(60)90675-9. PMID 13819419.
  2. Ferguson-Smith, Malcolm A. (2017-04-19). "John Hilton Edwards. 26 March 1928 — 11 October 2007". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 63: 215–242. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2017.0005. ISSN 0080-4606.