Deborah Nickerson

Deborah Ann 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] She found the gene for Miller syndrome with her colleagues Michael Bamshad and Jay Shendure.[2][3]

Deborah Ann Nickerson
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Portrait of Nickerson, date unknown
Born1954
Mineola, New York, United States
Died (aged 67)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Alma materAdelphi University (BS , 1974)
University of Tennessee (PhD, 1978)
Scientific career
FieldsGenomics
InstitutionsUniversity of South Florida, California Institute of Technology, University of Washington

Nickerson was born in Mineola, New York. She earned a bachelor's degree in biology from Adelphi University in 1974 and completed a PhD in immunology at the University of Tennessee in 1978. From 1978 to 1979, she pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of Kentucky.[2][4] She worked at the University of South Florida and the California Institute of Technology before moving to the University of Washington in 1992.[3]

Nickerson died of abdominal cancer in Seattle, Washington on December 24, 2021.[2]

Selected publications
  • Nickerson, D.A.; Tobe, V.O.; Taylor, S.L. (1997). "PolyPhred: Automating the detection and genotyping of single nucleotide substitutions using fluorescence-based resequencing". Nucleic Acids Research. 25 (14): 2745–2751. doi:10.1093/nar/25.14.2745. PMC 146817. PMID 9207020.
  • Ng, S.B.; Turner, E.H.; Robertson, P.D.; Flygare, S.D.; Bigham, A.W.; Lee, C.; Shaffer, T.; Wong, M.; Bhattacharjee, A.; Eichler, E.E.; Bamshad, M.; Nickerson, D.A.; Shendure, J. (2009). "Targeted capture and massively parallel sequencing of 12 human exomes". Nature. 461 (7261): 272–276. Bibcode:2009Natur.461..272N. doi:10.1038/nature08250. PMC 2844771. PMID 19684571.
  • Ng, S.B.; Buckingham, K.J.; Lee, C.; Bigham, A.W.; Tabor, H.K.; Dent, K.M.; Huff, C.D.; Shannon, P.T.; Jabs, E.W.; Nickerson, D.A.; Shendure, J.; Bamshad, M.J. (2010). "Exome sequencing identifies the cause of a Mendelian disorder". Nature Genetics. 42 (1): 30–35. doi:10.1038/ng.499. PMC 2847889. PMID 19915526.

References
  1. "Debbie Nickerson". National Human Genome Research Institute. January 20, 2022. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  2. Sandomir, Richard (January 20, 2022). "Deborah Nickerson, Pioneering Genome Researcher, Dies at 67". The New York Times.
  3. "In memoriam: Deborah Nickerson, genome pioneer". newsroom.uw.edu. December 29, 2021.
  4. Nemeh, K.H. (2020). "Nickerson, Deborah A". American Men & Women of Science: A Biographical Directory of Today's Leaders in Physical, Biological, and Related Sciences. Vol. 11 (38 ed.). Gale. p. 8131.


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