Leena Peltonen, genetics researcher, dies at 57

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 12:14 in Biology & Nature

Peltonen, a Finnish researcher, and her team discovered mutated genes responsible for 15 inherited diseases. She also established the department of human genetics at UCLA in 1998. 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...

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