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Jane Gitschier, HHMI investigator at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), studies the genetic basis of childhood disorders. One of her latest explorations, inspired by her training as a classical singer, is the genetics of perfect pitch—less a disorder than a rare musical gift. With colleagues at UCSF, including Nelson Freimer, now at the University of California, Los Angeles, Gitschier has found that this ability to name a note, immediately and effortlessly, when it is sounded tends to run in families. continued...
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Reprinted from the HHMI Bulletin,
September 2001, page 34.
©2001 Howard Hughes Medical Institute
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