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James Van Gundia Neel (March 22, 1915 –
February 1, 2000) was an American geneticist who played a key role in the development of
human genetics as a field of research in the United States. He made
important contributions to the emergence of genetic epidemiology and pursued an understanding of the
influence of environment on genes. In his early work, he studied sickle-cell disease and thalassemia conducted research on the effects of
radiation on survivors of the Hiroshima
atomic bombing. In 1956, Neel established the University of Michigan Department
of Genetics, the first department of human genetics at a medical school in the United States. He was elected a
Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1971. Neel
developed the "thrifty gene facing long
periods of hunger punctuated by brief periods of food surplus, would have
adapted genetically by processing fats and carbohydrates more efficiently
during feast periods, to be physiologically resilient during periods of famine.[3] Neel believed that this genetic adaptation
might have created a predisposition to type 2 diabetes mellitus. This theory was later discredited by
research conducted by Neel himself. Of
particular interest to Neel was an understanding of the human genome in an evolutionary light, a concept he addressed in his
fieldwork with cultural anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon among involvement in this fieldwork came under heavy scrutiny and criticism in
the Darkness in El Dorado controversy,
a scandal in anthropology that broke in 2000 involving numerous allegations of
unethical research that threatened serious damage to Neel's reputation. The
accusation is that Neel deliberately injected South American natives with
virulent measles vaccine to
spark off an epidemic which killed hundreds and probably thousands.[5] However, these claims against him were never
substantiated with any evidence, and it was found later that the measles
outbreak predated his arrival. The majority of the allegations in Darkness
in El Dorado have since been found to have been fabricated by the
author. Dr. Neel attended the College of Wooster with
a degree in biology in 1935 and went on to receive his Ph.D. at the University of Rochester.
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