Dronamraju Krishna Rao (14 January 1937 – 3 December 2020) was an Indian-born geneticist and president of the Foundation for Genetic Research in Houston, Texas.
[2] Dronamraju went to M. R. College in Vizianagaram, Andhra University to study botany and earned a bachelor's degree in 1955.
He received a master's degree from Agra University in 1957; he studied plant breeding and genetics.
Early in his research career, he discovered the first case of a gene on the human Y chromosome and published a paper in 1960.
Saghvi at the Tata Cancer Center in Mumbai) eventually led to the foundation of the Indian Society of Human Genetics.
[citation needed] He studied the relationship between fetal mortality and the occurrence of oral cleft defects in families.