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          Christopher Ehret.

        1. Christopher Ehret.
        2. Professor Himla Soodyall is a renowned South African geneticist who has received several prestigious awards for her research.
        3. Himla SOODYALL | Cited by | of National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg | Read publications | Contact Himla SOODYALL.
        4. Life at the Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Level.
        5. Christopher Ehret is distinguished research professor at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).

          6. Himla Soodyall

          (b.02 07 1963) South African geneticist

          Himla (Himladevi) Soodyall (b Durban, 1963[1]) is a South African geneticist involved in finding some of the oldest human genetic lines, mainly focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa.[2] Her work on DNA has pointed to southern Africa as the most likely geographic region of origin of the human species.[1][3]

          She is Director of the Human Genomic Diversity and Disease Research Laboratory, National Health Laboratory Service at the University of the Witwatersrand.[4] She was awarded a Bronze Order of Mapungubwe in 2005 for her "Outstanding contributions in the field of science" in South Africa.

          Education

          Soodyall was born in Durban and educated at Gandhi-Desai High School before obtaining a BSc and BScHons at the University of Durban-Westville and an MSc in biotechnology from the University of the Witwatersrand.

          Her PhD, on human population and evolutionary genetics, was obtained