Deborah A Nickerson

Deborah Ann Nickerson (1954 – December 24, 2021) was an American human genomics researcher. She was professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington. Nickerson founded and directed of one of the five clinical sites of the Gregor Consortium and was a major contributor to many genomics projects, including the Human Genome Project and the International HapMap Project. She worked at the University of South Florida and the California Institute of Technology with Leroy Hood, before being recruited by Hood to the University of Washington in 1992.

Nickerson died of abdominal cancer in Seattle, Washington on December 24, 2021. and producing early catalogs of normal human genomic variation.

Selected publications