Patricia Jacobs FRS FMedSci (born October 1934) is a distinguished British geneticist, fellow of the Royal society. She is Professor of Human Genetics in University of Southampton at Salisbury District Hospital. In 1993, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.^[1]

In 1959, she was the first to describe a chromosomal abnormality in humans, the additional X chromosome (the 47,XXY karyotype) in Klinefelter syndrome.^[2]

In 1981, she received the William Allan Memorial Award from the American Society of Human Genetics^[3]

She was the first recipient of the KS&A Patricia Jacobs Lifetime Achievement Award from the United Kingdom charity Knowledge Support & Action.^[4]

References

External links

• Chronology of Human Genetics
• University of Southampton - Professor Patricia Jacobs

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