In 2001, scientists announced an incredible accomplishment: they had completed the sequence of the human genome. The complete...
Dan Koboldt leads the human genetics analysis group of the Genome Institute at Washington University. He and his colleagues use next-generation DNA sequencing technologies to uncover the genetic basis of inherited diseases such as age-related macular degeneration, heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. He has co-authored more than 60 publications in Nature, Human Mutation/em>, Genome Research, The New England Journal of Medicine, Cell, and other scientific journals. Every fall, he disappears into Missouri’s dense hardwood forests to pursue whitetail deer and turkey with a bow and arrows. He lives with his wife and three children in St. Louis, where the deer take their revenge by eating all of the plants in his backyard.