John H. Edwards

{{Short description|British geneticist (1928–2007)}}

{{for|the pioneering radiologist or banker|John Hall-Edwards|John H. Edwards (banker)}}

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{{Infobox scientist

| name = John Hilton Edwards

| honorific_suffix = FRS

| image = John_H._Edwards.gif

| birth_name =

| birth_date = {{birth date |1928|03|26|df=yes}}

| birth_place = London, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|2007|10|11|1928|03|26|df=yes}}

| death_place = Oxford, England

| fields = Medical genetics

| workplaces = University of Birmingham, Oxford University, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

| education = Trinity Hall, Cambridge

| academic_advisors = Lancelot Hogben

| known_for = Description of trisomy 18 syndrome (Edwards syndrome)

| spouse = Felicity Claire Toussaint

| partner =

| children = Four: Vanessa, Conrad, Penelope and Matthew

| father = Harold C. Edwards

| mother = Ida

| relatives = A. W. F. Edwards (brother)

}}

John Hilton Edwards (26 March 1928 – 11 October 2007) was a British medical geneticist. Edwards reported the first description of a syndrome of multiple congenital malformations associated the presence of an extra chromosome. The extra chromosome belonged to the E group of chromosomes which consisted of chromosomes 16, 17 and 18. The condition is now known as Edwards syndrome or trisomy 18 syndrome.{{Cite journal| first1 = J.| last2 = Harnden | first2 = D. G.| last3 = Cameron | first3 = A. H.| last4 = Crosse | first4 = V. M.| last5 = Wolf | first5 = O. H.| title = A New Trisomic Syndrome| journal = The Lancet| last1 = Edwards| volume = 275| issue = 7128| pages = 787–790| year = 1960| doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(60)90675-9| pmid = 13819419 }}

Image:Fig 5, Edwards' 1960 Lancet paper - incorrectly depicts trisomy 17.png

In 1979, Edwards was elected to fellowship of the Royal Society.{{Cite journal|last=Ferguson-Smith|first=Malcolm A.|date=2017-04-19|title=John Hilton Edwards. 26 March 1928 – 11 October 2007|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|language=en|volume=63|pages=215–242|doi=10.1098/rsbm.2017.0005|issn=0080-4606|doi-access=free}}[http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=RefNo=='EC/1979/08'&dsqDb=Catalog Royal Society Certificate of Election] He was a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and Professor of Genetics at Oxford from 1979 to 1995.{{cite web|title=Edwards, Prof. John Hilton|work=Who Was Who 1920–2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|date= December 2008 |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U14698|accessdate=21 February 2010}}

He was the son of the surgeon Harold C. Edwards. His brother is the geneticist and statistician A.W.F. Edwards. Early in his career, he worked under Lancelot Hogben, and was sometimes distinguished from the brother as "Hogben's Edwards".