Barton Childs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American geneticist
Date of Birth: 29-Feb-1916
Place of Birth: Hinsdale, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 18-Feb-2010
Profession: geneticist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Barton Childs
- Barton Childs (February 29, 1916 – February 18, 2010) was an American pediatrician and geneticist.
- He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from Williams College in 1938.
- In 1942, he received his M.D.
- from Johns Hopkins University.
- Following military service in World War II, he returned to Johns Hopkins for a residency in pediatrics.
- After a fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital in Boston, he returned to Johns Hopkins University in 1949, where he remained until his retirement in 1981.
- He remained a professor emeritus in the Department of Pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine until his death. Childs studied the genetics of adrenal hyperplasia, Crigler–Najjar syndrome, and propionic acidemia.
- He is known for his collaboration with William H.
- Zinkham, which demonstrated that Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency is an X-linked recessive genetic disease.
- He is best known for a collaboration with Ronald Davidson and Harold Nitowsky, which demonstrated random inactivation of one of the two X-chromosomes in mammalian female cells, a mechanism of dosage compensation.Childs was the author of many editorial pieces on genetic counseling, genetic screening, and behavioral genetics.
- He was a coauthor of The Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease, published in four volumes.
- In his book Genetic Medicine: A Logic of Disease, published in 1999, he argues that in the future, all medicine, or medical theory, must be based on the individuality of gene-environment interaction.
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