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Peltonen created UCLA genetics department

By Los Angeles Times / The Bulletin
March 25, 2010

Dr. Leena Peltonen, an unusually prolific genetics researcher whose team discovered mutated genes responsible for 15 inherited diseases and who established the department of human genetics at UCLA, died of cancer March 11 at her home in Finland. She was 57.

Her “contribution to understanding the....

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