2011 National DNA Day Online Chatroom Transcript

This is just one question from an archive of the National DNA Day Moderated Chat held in April 2011. The NHGRI Director and many genomics experts from across NHGRI took questions from students, teachers and the general public on topics ranging from basic genomic research, to the genetic basis of disease, to ethical questions about genetic privacy.

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What education do you need to become a geneticist?      Corina Din-Lovinescu: I am a program analyst in the Office of Population Genomics Office at NHGRI. The most important thing is to get a good broad education in biology and science in college. Then I would focus on molecular biology and molecular genetics. Molecular biology is key, as is a good education in biology. Riverside High School in PA (10th grade student)

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