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Oral History Collection

Georgia Dunston (Part 2)

Part two of this oral history follows Georgia M. Dunston, Ph.D. as she and Dr. Francis Collins started the African American Diabetes Mellitus (AADM) Study and how Dr. Charles Rotimi began working for the study. She talks about when National Human Genome Center (NHGC) at Howard University formed and how she recruited the team for its Molecular Genetics Program. Dr. Dunston also describes how African American Hereditary Prostate Cancer Study Network started and how Africans were recruited to the International HapMap Project.