Sjeng Kerbusch (1947 - 1 March 1991) was a Dutch behavior geneticist. A native of

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, he obtained his Ph.D. from the Catholic University Nijmegen in 1974J.M.L. Kerbusch, 1974. ''Genetic analysis of exploratory behaviour, simple learning behaviour and cerebral AChE and ChE activities in mice by means of the diallel method.'' Ph.D. thesis, Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 63 + 32 pp. as the third Dutchman in this field. Kerbusch' specialism was the application of quantitative-genetic methods, especially diallel crosses and Mendelian crosses, to the analysis of behavior. From 1984 to 1987, he was President of the Dutch Behavior Genetics Contact Group and in 1988 he was local host for the 18th Annual Meeting of the

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held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Kerbusch died at Nijmegen from complications after a

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kerbusch, Sjeng 1947 births 1991 deaths Behavior geneticists People from Maastricht Dutch geneticists 20th-century Dutch psychologists 20th-century Dutch zoologists Radboud University Nijmegen alumni