Alexander Bearn, 86, was a pioneer in genetic disease

By Dennis Hevesi / The Bulletin
May 29, 2009

Alexander Bearn, a physician and scientist whose research on a rare liver disease in the 1950s helped lay the groundwork for the field of human biochemical genetics, died May 15 at his home in Philadelphia. He was 86.

The cause was heart failure, his wife, Margaret, said.

Bearn was one of the....

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