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The Evolution of Genetics in 1992
The state of science with respect to what we understood about genetics in 1992 is very different than it is today. It was really quite exciting to be able to write these pivotal papers to disprove a lot of clinical nonsense that had been talked about, and why some disease were given more priority than others. So that was a cool time, and I came out of my little field of osteoporosis and arthritis and back pain to all the other common chronic diseases of aging. That led us to publish all kinds of fascinating work, and made me realize that if you had a model that worked, you might as well study all the interesting stuff you can - not be stuck in a specialty like most