John Hilton Edwards (26 March 1928 – 11 October 2007) was a British medical geneticist.

Edwards reported the first description of a syndrome of multiple congenital malformations associated the presence of an extra chromosome.

[2] In 1979, Edwards was elected to fellowship of the Royal Society.

[4] He was the son of the surgeon Harold C. Edwards.

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