Shirley Victoria Penrose Hodgson (born 22 February 1945) is a British geneticist.

Biography

Hodgson studied at

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. She worked as a GP, then performed as a

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in clinical genetics at

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, saying she found the subject "irresistible". She became Senior Registrar in Clinical Genetics for the South Thames (East) Regional Genetics Centre and Honorary Senior Registrar at Hammersmith Hospital, London, from 1983 to 1988; then Consultant Geneticist at

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from 1988 to 1990. In the 1990s, she led the regional cancer genetics service at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital. She has been a Professor of Cancer Genetics at

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since 2003. Hodgson is the daughter of

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and his wife Margaret Leathes and the granddaughter of the

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. She has three older brothers,

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, Sir Roger, and

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. She married Humphrey Hodgson in 1971.‘HODGSON, Prof. Humphrey Julian Francis’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 201
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, and a

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Works

Hodgson is the author of many academic papers and several books, including: * * *

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hodgson, Shirley 1945 births Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford Living people Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal Society of Biology British geneticists British people of Russian-Jewish descent British women geneticists