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Dr. Richard King Dr. Richard King graduated from Pennsylvania State University (1961) and Jefferson Medical College (1965). He was an intern and resident, and completed the clinical component of a rheumatology fellowship in the University of Minnesota Department of Medicine.

Following two years at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Hiroshima, he returned to the University of Minnesota and obtained his Ph.D. in genetics in 1975. He joined the faculty in 1975, and has been active in development of human and medical genetics in the Medical School and across the campus.

King currently directs the Division of Genetics and the Molecular Medicine Program, a joint program of the Department of Medicine and the Institute of Human Genetics. Dr. King is the founding editor-in-chief of Genetics in Medicine, the Official Journal of the American College of Medical Genetics, and the senior editor, with Drs. Arno Motulsky and Jerome Rotter, of the major textbook The Genetic Basis of Common Diseases.

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