Deborah Ann Nickerson | |
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Born | 1954 Mineola, New York, United States |
Died | (aged 67) Seattle, Washington, United States |
Alma mater | Adelphi University (BS, 1974) University of Tennessee (PhD, 1978) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Genomics |
Institutions | University of South Florida, California Institute of Technology, University of Washington |
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Nickerson (1954 – December 24, 2021)[1] was an American human genomics researcher. She was professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington. Nickerson founded and directed of one of the five clinical sites of the Gregor Consortium and was a major contributor to many genomics projects, including the Human Genome Project and the International HapMap Project.[1]