Evan E. Eichler is an investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute studying human genome evolution, genome variation and their role in diseases.

He is also a Professor of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle.

[1][3][4][5][6] Eichler was educated at the University of Saskatchewan and Baylor College of Medicine where he was awarded his PhD in 1995[2] for work on the FMR1 gene.

[7] Eichler is considered one of the experts in genome instability studies,[8] segmental duplication and structural variation.

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