Information about Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys

University of Leicester pages

• University staff page
• The Gene Genius - booklet to commemorate 20 years of genetic fingerprinting (PDF)
• 25th anniversary of genetic fingerprinting - Press Office website

External pages

• Wikipedia
• The Royal Society
• Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Sir Alec’s choices on Desert Island Discs

Interviews with Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys

• Science Watch, 1995
• Wellcome Trust, 2004 (in three parts)
• Lasker Foundation, 2005 (streaming video)
• Science in School, 2006 (PDF)
• Profiles in DNA, 2007 (PDF)
• BBC Radio Leicester, 2007 (page links to audio file)
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2007
• Daily Telegraph, 2007
• University of Leicester, 2009 (in six parts)
• Times Higher Education, 2009
• Newsnight, 2009 (text, with short video clip)
• New Scientist, 2009

Papers by Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys (abstracts)

• Jeffreys AJ, Wilson V, Thein SL. Hypervariable 'minisatellite' regions in human DNA. Nature 314: 67-73 (1985)
• Jeffreys AJ, Wilson V, Thein SL. Individual-specific 'fingerprints' of human DNA. Nature 316: 76-9 (1985)
• Professor Jeffreys in PubMed

Genetics at the University of Leicester

• Department of Genetics
• GENIE: Genetics Education Networking for Innovation and Excellence
• Leicester Institute of Genetics & Genome Sciences (LIGGS)