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David W. Fulker (8 March 1937 - 9 July 1998) was a behavioural geneticist. Among positions of esteem, he was elected president of the Behavior Genetics Association (1982), and was executive editor of the society's journal ''Behavior Genetics''. In honour of this role, the society maintains an annual Fulker Award, for the best paper in the journal each year, and for which the award is "$1000 and a ''good'' bottle of wine". ==Contributions to behaviour genetics== In 1970, Fulker and John L. Jinks published a proposal that the biometric genetic approach should be applied to human behaviour.〔Jinks JL & Fulker DW. (1970). A comparison of the biometrical-genetical, MAVA and classical approaches to the analysis of human behavior. ''Psychological Bulletin'', 73, 311-349.〕 Seemingly a commonplace idea today, this was a landmark paper, and became a citation classic. At the Institute of Psychiatry, Fulker's research established that many behaviours, not only in rodents but also in humans and in such "higher" mental traits as personality and also psychiatric diseases show genetic influences. Producing these results entailed the development of novel analytical approaches, on which Fulker collaborated with John DeFries. Fulker worked on combining quantitative and molecular genetic approaches, adapting the DeFries-Fulker regression approach to this purpose. With a former PhD student Lon Cardon (who went on to discover linkage for dyslexia on chromosome 6 and to work in the human International HapMap Project) and Stacey Cherny, Fulker worked on methods for linkage and association analysis of quantitative traits. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David Fulker」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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