Alan Garen

Alan Garen
Citizenship	United States
Nationality	American
Fields	Genetics
Institutions	Yale University
Alma mater	University of Colorado
Doctoral advisor	Theodore T. Puck
Known for	genetics

Alan Garen is geneticist, who co-discovered suppressor mutations for tRNA. The Garen lab also showed that certain triplet codons (5'-UAG, 5'-UAA, and 5'-UGA) failed to bind amino acids.^[1] Thus, the Garen lab and Brenner labs are both credited with discovery of the stop codons of the genetic code.^[2] Garen is currently a professor at Yale University.

References

^ Weigert M, Galluci E, Lanka E, Garen A (1966). "Characteristics of the genetic code in vivo". Cold Spring Harbor Symp Quant Biol 31: 145-150. PMID 4866371.
^ Stretton AOW, Kaplan S, Brenner S (1966). "Nonsense codons". Cold Spring Harbor Symp Quant Biol 31: 173-179. PMID 5237189.

External links

Garen's webpage at Yale's Dept. of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Academic genealogy of Alan Garen

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