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Meet Jeff Wheelwright | The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess

01/25/2012 7:00 pm
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25
7pm | Meet Jeff Wheelwright | The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA
Jeff Wheelwright
Jeff Wheelwright
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Award-winning science writer and Smithsonian Magazine contributor Jeff Wheelwright shares The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess. A vibrant young Hispano woman, Shonnie Medina, inherits a breast-cancer mutation known as BRCA1.185delAG. It is a genetic variant characteristic of Sephardic Jews hounded by the Spanish Inquisition. The Medinas knew they were descended from Native Americans and Spanish Catholics, but they did not know that they had Jewish ancestry as well. The discovery of the gene leads to the discovery of the harrowing story, culminating in the isolated San Luis Valley of Colorado, of the Medina family's five-hundred-year passage from medieval Spain to the American Southwest.

ABOUT JEFF WHEELWRIGHT
Jeff Wheelwright is a freelance journalist and the former science editor of Life magazine. He is also the author of Degrees of Disaster and The Irritable Heart. After writing an article on this subject for the Smithsonian Magazine, Wheelwright was awarded a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship to continue his research — research that became The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess. He lives in Morro Bay, California. jeffwheelwright.com  More »

The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA (Hardcover)

By Jeff Wheelwright
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ISBN-13: 9780393081916
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 1/2012

The Irritable Heart: The Medical Mystery of the Gulf War (Paperback)

By Jeff Wheelwright
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ISBN-13: 9780393338737
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 1/2001
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