Shirley V Hodgson, University of London, London, UK
Published online: September 2006
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0005706
Lionel Penrose (1898–1972) was a British geneticist who pioneered human genetics, and developed mathematical data analysis and sibling-pair analysis for use in genetic studies.
Keywords: sib-pair analysis; learning difficulties; human genetics; intellectual impairment
| Further Reading | |
| Penrose LS (1949) Propagation of the unfit. Lancet ii: 425. | |
| book Penrose LS (1952) On the Objective Study of Crowd Behaviour. London: HK Lewis. | |
| Penrose LS (1952) Human biochemical genetics. Nature 170: 654. | |
| book Penrose LS and Johnston AW (1966) Down's Anomaly. London: J & A Churchill. | |
| Penrose LS (1967) Finger-print pattern and the sex chromosomes. Lancet i: 298–300. | |
| Penrose LS (1971) Psychiatric genetics. Psychological Medicine 1: 265–266. | |
| book Penrose LS (1972) Ethics and Eugenics: The Biological Revolution. New York: Doubleday. (Paperback reprint of The Social Impact of Modern Biology, proceedings of a conference organised by the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science, 26–28 November 1970, published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London.) | |
| book Penrose LS (1972) Biology of Mental Defect, 4th edn. London: Sidgwick & Jackson. | |
| book Penrose LS (1973) Outline of Human Genetics, 3rd edn. London: Heinemann. | |
| Penrose LS (1998) Phenylketonuria: a problem in eugenics. Annals of Human Genetics 62: 193–200. (Posthumous reissue of a paper published in 1946 in the Lancet.) | |
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