Ranajit Chakraborty was a human and population geneticist.
11 Facts About Ranajit Chakraborty
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In 1973, Ranajit Chakraborty joined the faculty at the Center for Demographic and Population Genetics, which is the Human Genetics Center, at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
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In 2009, Ranajit Chakraborty joined the Department of Forensic and Investigative Genetics, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas.
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Ranajit Chakraborty wrote six books and over 600 scientific articles.
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Ranajit Chakraborty contributed to the development of the two main mutation models in population genetics: the infinite alleles model and the stepwise mutation model.
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Ranajit Chakraborty made a large number of methodological contributions to population genetics, such as the use of the number of rare alleles per locus to estimate mutation rates.
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Dr Ranajit Chakraborty was a member or life member of a dozen or so scientific societies, among them the International Association of Human Biologists, the Indian Society of Human Genetics, the American Society of Human Genetics, The Genetics Society of America, the American Society of Naturalists, Sigma Xi, and the International Association of DNA Fingerprinting.
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Ranajit Chakraborty served as a member of the board of directors of the American Dermatoglyphics Association, Vice President of the Indian Society of Human Ecology, and Vice President and President of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics.
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In both cases, Ranajit Chakraborty helped develop policies on the use of DNA and approved the methodologies and statistical tools in identification procedures.
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In 2002, Ranajit Chakraborty became a member of the Working Group of bacterial Forensic Genetics at the FBI Academy.
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Ranajit Chakraborty's testimony was crucial in the reorganization of the New York City protocols for such identifications, and for reopening many cases previously decided on the basis of a faulty method.