Klaus Patau
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Klaus Patau (1908–1975) was a German-born American geneticist who in 1960 first reported the extra chromosome in trisomy 13.[1]. The syndrome caused by trisomy 13 is often called Patau syndrome. It is also known as Bartholin-Patau syndrome, since the clinical picture associated with trisomy 13 was described by Thomas Bartholin in 1656.[2].
Klaus Patau was in the Department of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as was his wife and collaborator, the Finnish cytogeneticist Eeva Therman (1916-2004).
[edit] References
- ^ K. Patau, D. W. Smith, E. Therman, S. L. Inhorn, H. P. Wagner: Multiple congenital anomaly caused by an extra autosome.The Lancet, 1960, I: 790.
- ^ Thomas Bartholinus: Historiarum anatomicarum rariorum centuria III et IV. Ujusdem cura accessare observationes anatomicae. Petri Pavi Hafniae. Sumtibus Petri Haubold Bibl, 1656, page 95.
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