His highest cited paper is "Construction of a genetic linkage map in man using restriction fragment length polymorphisms" at 14901 times, according to Google Scholar.
I’m not sure I would have wanted to just focus on seeing ill people.”[4] Skolnick was very good at math but his parents also played a very significant role cultivating his interest in science and in societal causes.
As he says, “The way you study individuals is in pedigrees, by linking fertility, mortality, migration-parameters for single individuals.”[4] He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1975.
He then moved to the University of Utah where he began working in collaboration with the Departments of Medical Informatics, Biology, Cardiology and Genetics.
Finally, Skolnick and his group developed a method called Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms (RFLPs) for genetic mapping which was also a significant resource for human genome project.