Dorothy Trump (24 January 1964 – 26 March 2013) was an English physician who specialised in clinical genetics.
Dorothy Trump was born on 24 January 1964 in Redcar, North Riding of Yorkshire, and raised in Stockton-on-Tees.
She later spent three years as a genetics researcher at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital under the supervision of Professor Rajesh V. Thakker, where she searched for the specific genetic defect in X-linked hypophosphataemia and worked with a group that attempted to map the first draft of the human genome.
[1] In 1995, Trump returned to Cambridge, where she undertook specialist training in clinical genetics while researching X-linked retinoschisis.
This led her to identify the gene defect that causes Perrault syndrome; her findings were published in 2013 in the American Journal of Human Genetics.