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  1. Rebecca Skloot _ The Immortal Life of Henrietta

    Lillian converted to Puerto Rican," Gladys said, holding the letter to her chest. I looked at Gary, who sat beside her. "Lillian's skin was real light, even lighter than mom's," Gary explained. "She married a Puerto Rican somewhere in New York. Since she could pass, she disowned her blackness-converted to Puerto Rican because she didn't want to be black no more.
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  2. Rebecca Skloot _ The Immortal Life of Henrietta

    Soon after Harris's HeLa-chicken study, a pair of researchers at New York University discovered that human-mouse hybrids lost their human chromosomes over time, leaving only the mouse chromosomes. This allowed scientists to begin mapping human genes to specific chromosomes by tracking the order in which genetic traits vanished. If a chromosome disappeared and production of a certain enzyme stopped, researchers knew the gene for that enzyme must be on the most recently vanished chromosome. Scientists in laboratories throughout North America and Europe began fusing cells and using them to map genetic traits to specific chromosomes, creating a precursor to the human genome map we have today.
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