European Journal of Human Genetics 2017 Citation Award for Wybo Dondorp
Wybo Dondorp, Associate Professor at the Department of Health, Ethics and Society, has been awarded the first prize of the European Journal of Human Genetics 2017.
He receives the award as first author of the manuscript Non-invasive prenatal testing for aneuploidy and beyond: challenges of responsible innovation in prenatal screening, for receiving 22 citations in the first calendar year following publication of research papers published in 2015 in the European Journal of Human Genetics.
Wybo will receive the award at the 2017 European Human Genetics Conference which will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Dondorp W, De Wert G, Bombard Y, et al. On behalf of the European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) and the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG). Non-invasive prenatal testing for aneuploidy and beyond: challenges of responsible innovation in prenatal screening. Eur J Hum Genet 2015; 23(11):1438–1450.
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