[2][3][4] Her works include Human Chromosomes: Structure, Behavior, Effects, a textbook on cytogenetics which is in its 4th edition.

[5] Her research specialties included X-inactivation in mammals and chromosomal abnormalities in cancer.

[6] She emigrated to the United States in 1958, and shortly thereafter began to work as a research assistant in Klaus Patau's laboratory in the Department of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Due to university hiring rules, she was unable to become faculty until Patau's death in 1975.

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