Anita Harding
Anita Harding
(
September 17
,
1952
-
September 11
,
1995
) was a
British
neurologist
. Anita Harding made several significant contributions especially in the field of inherited neurologic disorders. Her major achievements are the classification of the
peripheral neuropathies
and
hereditary ataxias
, the first identification of a
mitochondrial
DNA
mutation
in human disease and the identification of
trinucleotide repeats
in degenerative neurologic diseases (e.g.
Huntington's disease
). She has also worked extensively on the
population genetics
of disorders with ethnic distribution. She died of cancer at the age of 42 just before she was to take up the Chair in Clinical Neurology at the Institute of Neurology in Queen Square, London. On learning of her terminal condition she is said to have responded impishly, 'At least I won't have to buy
Windows 95
'. Harding, Anita Harding, Anita Harding, Anita
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