Groundbreaking research in human genetics? It happened at Michigan! The U-M Department of Genetics opened in 1956, the first of its kind in the U.S., following a petitioning effort by leading physician James V. Neel. Neel put the department on the map with his breakthrough research on heredity and developmental abnormalities.
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