Background
Hecht, Frederick was born on July 11, 1930 in Baltimore. Son of Malcolm and Lucile Burger (Levy) Hecht.
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Fragile sites--points where chromosomes are apt to break--came to prominence in the late 1970s and are now the subject of much clinical concern and laboratory investigation. They are known or suspected agents in the genesis of mental retardation, birth defects, and cancer. This book, the first to deal with fragile sites on human chromosomes, takes a broad interdisciplinary approach to the subject, incorporating findings from cytogenetics, medical and clinical genetics, population genetics, mental retardation, dysmorphology, and oncology. The book has three interrelated sections. The first, focusing on the laboratory, presents what is known about fragile sites, their cytogenetics, and the conditions of cell culture needed to demonstrate them. A clinical section follows, covering X-linked forms of mental retardation, the clinical features associated with the fragile X, and genetic counseling with fragile sites. The final section considers fragile sites as they relate to genetics, including the possible relationship of fragile sites to cancer and to constitutional chromosome abnormalities. This book contains much previously unpublished material and will be an important resource for geneticists and cytogeneticists, molecular and cancer biologists, oncologists, pediatricians, and other health professionals.
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Hecht, Frederick was born on July 11, 1930 in Baltimore. Son of Malcolm and Lucile Burger (Levy) Hecht.
Student, University Paris, 1951. Bachelor with distinction, Dartmouth College, 1952. Student, Boston University, 1956.
Doctor of Medicine with honors, University Rochester, 1960.
Intern Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, New York, 1960-1961, resident, 1961-1962, University Washington Hospital, Seattle, 1962-1964, assistant in pediatrics, medical genetics, 1962-1964, instructor pediatrics, medical genetics, 1962-1965. Assistant in pediatrics University Rochester, 1960-1962. Professor pediatrics University Oregon, Portland, 1965-1978.
Founder, president, director Southwest biomedical Research Institute, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1978-1989. Founder, president Hecht Associates Inc., Jacksonville, Florida, 1989—2004. Professor zoology Arizona State University, Tempe, 1978-1989.
Professor obstetrics-gynecology University Nevada, Reno and Las Vegas, 1983-1989. Director molecular medicine Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, 1990-1991. Professor medicine University Missouri, 1990-1991.
Founder, director division molecular medicine Children's Mercy Hospital, Missouri, 1990-1991. Visiting professor cytogenetics and molecular genetics Adelaide Children's Hospital, North Adelaide, South Australia, 1992. Professor medicine Laboratory de Génetique Moleculaire des Cancers Humains, l'Université de Nice, France, 1992-1995.
Board directors Youth Law Center, San Francisco. Professor medical University Missouri, Kansas City, 1990-1991. Member outside biomedical committee overseeing Eurpean Union gene therapy research program, Montpellier, France, since 2008.
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Volunteer library, Desert Sun Elementary School, Cave Creek, Arizona. Sergeant Military Intelligence Corps, United States Army, 1952-1955, interpreter-translator French, German, Russian. Member American Pediatric Society, American Society Human Genetics (board directors), American Academy Pediatrics (charter member genetics section 1990), Society Pediatric Research, Western Society Pediatric Research (board directors), National Foundation Jewish Genetic Diseases, Alumni Council, University Rochester School Medicine & Dentistry, since 2009.
Married Irene Winchester Duckworth, August 29, 1953 (divorced 1977). Children: Frederick Malcolm, Matthew Winchester, Maude Bancroft, Tobias Ochs. Married Barbara Mae Kaiser McCaw, May 29, 1977.
Children: Kerrie Kristine McCaw, Brian Stuart McCaw.