In 1961 he returned to the Department of Genetics at the University of Glasgow and was appointed Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader successively, becoming the first Burton Professor of Medical Genetics in 1973. Apart from teaching genetics to medical students, his duties involved the establishment of a Regional Genetics Service for the West of Scotland. This provided opportunities for contributing to the human gene map using familial chromosome polymorphisms, deletion mapping, in situ hybridisation and chromosome sorting by flow cytometry. His work on mapping the Y-linkedsex determinant in XX males led to the isolation of the mammalian sex-determining gene twenty-five years later.[5]
Gene mapping
In 1987 he was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Pathology at University of Cambridge and Director of the East Anglia Regional Genetics Service, where he furthered his research on gene mapping. He retired as Head of Pathology in 1998 and moved to the University Department of Veterinary Medicine. In 2002 he established the Cambridge Resource Centre for Comparative Genomics which produced and distributed chromosome-specific DNA from over 120 species of animals, birds and fish to scientists worldwide for research in biology, evolution and gene mapping. This data allowed comparisons between species to be made and mapped, illuminating the relationships between species and allowing research into genomic evolution.[5]
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