Reardon, W. P.

The association with Reardon began in 1988 with Reardon's request for assistance in a study planned by him and his colleagues on X-linked deafness. George Fraser referred him to his paper 'Sex-linked recessive congenital deafness and the excess of males in profound childhood deafness', Annals of Human Genetics, Vol. 29 (1965), and gave him a copy of the relevant family details as had been required by L. S. Penrose as editor at the time.

As a result of his assistance, Fraser was included as a co-author of the paper by Reardon, E. Gausden et al, 'Pendred syndrome: evidence for genetic homogeneity and further refinement of linkage', Journal of Medical Genetics, 34 (1997). This appeared forty years after Fraser had presented his Ph.D. thesis on the condition.

In the same year, to mark Fraser's retirement, Reardon wrote his 'Historical note: Dr George Fraser' (PP/GRF/A.3), in which he discussed Fraser's contributions to medical and human genetics, especially in connection with the Pendred syndrome.