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Dr. Mark H. Skolnick, Ph.D., is the Founder of Myriad Genetics Inc. == Early Life and Education == Mark Henry Skolnick: Mark H Skolnick was born in Temple, Texas, in January 1946. Spending the first six weeks of his life there, he moved to New Mexico and then Kansas, and then lastly to San Mateo, California. His grandparents were from Latvia, Russia and Germany; His parents both Swedish, met in Princeton. His mother is graduate of the Wellesley College and father from Harvard. His father taught clinical post graduate course at Stanford, where Skolnick was introduced to the bright Stanford academics at a very young age. “It got put into my head pretty early on that medicine was interesting,” says Skolnick, “but it might be more interesting to be an academic than a doctor. I’m not sure I would have wanted to just focus on seeing ill people, dealing with diagnostic side of medicine.”〔Davies, K., White, M. (1996). Breakthrough, The Race to Find the Breast Cancer Gene. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0471120251〕 Skolnick was very good at math but his parents also played a very significant role rising his interest in science. “I think I was driven a lot by actually wanting to do something of lasting social significance,” he said.〔Davies, K., White, M. (1996). Breakthrough, The Race to Find the Breast Cancer Gene. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0471120251〕 At the age of fourteen he wanted to be a doctor where most of his academics were in mathematics. He studied economics in the (University of California ), Berkeley, focusing mainly on anthropology. He was mostly interested in quantitative problems and issues like migration, unemployment, inflation etc. He continued his graduate studies in demography in the same university. During that time he realized that he likes to study individuals. As he says, “The way you study individuals is in pedigrees, by linking fertility, mortality, migration-parameters for single individuals.”〔Davies, K., White, M. (1996). Breakthrough, The Race to Find the Breast Cancer Gene. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0471120251〕 He became interested in genealogy and carried on his first project where he did the reconstruction of genealogies from Parma Valley, Italy. 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「Mark Skolnick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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