Rick Kittles

Rick Antonius Kittles (an haife shi a Sylvania, Jojiya, Amurka ) ƙwararren masanin ilimin halitta ɗan ƙasar Amurka ne wanda ya ƙware a ilimin halittar ɗan adam kuma babban mataimakin shugaban ƙasa na Bincike a Makarantar Magunguna ta Morehouse .  Shi dan asalin Afirka ne, kuma ya yi suna a cikin 1990s saboda aikinsa na farko na gano zuriyar Ba'amurkawa yan asalin Afirika ta hanyar gwajin DNA .

Ya taba rike mukamai a Jami'ar Howard (1998-2004), Jami'ar Jihar Ohio (2004-2006), Jami'ar Chicago (2006-2010), Jami'ar Illinois Chicago (2010-2014), Jami'ar Arizona (2014) -2017), da Cibiyar Kiwon Lafiya ta Kasa ta Birnin Hope (2017-2022)

## Tarihin rayuwa
Ya tashi a garin  Kittles a Tsakiyar Islip, New York . Rick yana da digiri na BS a fannin ilmin halitta daga Rochester Institute of Technology (1989), inda ya yi alkawarin Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, da kuma Ph.D. a Biology daga Jami'ar George Washington a Washington, DC (1998).
A cikin 1990 ya fara aikinsa a matsayin malami a wasu manyan makarantu na New York da Washington, DC. Daga kimanin 1995 har zuwa 1999, a matsayin mai bincike tare da New York African Burial Ground Project (NYABGP), wani aikin da gwamnatin tarayya ta samar a birnin New York, inda masu binciken Jami'ar Howard, karkashin jagorancin masanin ilimin dan adam Michael Blakey, suka tono gawarwakin 'yan Afirka 408 daga Amurka. makabartar daga karni na 18 ;  Kittles sun tattara samfuran DNA daga ragowar kuma sun kwatanta su da samfurori daga bayanan DNA don sanin daga ina a Afirka mutanen da aka binne a makabartar suka fito.
Tun daga shekarar 1998, yayin da yake kammala karatunsa na Ph.D. a Jami’ar George Washington, an dauki Kittles a matsayin mataimakin farfesa a fannin ilmin halitta a Jami’ar Howard da ke Washington, DC, sannan kuma aka nada shi daraktan Cibiyar Nazarin Ciwon Kansa ta Amurka (AAHPC) a Cibiyar Nazarin Halittu ta Jama’a ta kasa. Kittles kuma ya jagoranci sashin kwayoyin halitta na Cibiyar Halittar Dan Adam ta Jami'ar Howard. Ya yi aiki a wadannan mukamai har zuwa 2004. Da farko a 2004, ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin farfesa a Sashen Kwayoyin Halitta, Immunology & Medical Genetics a Tzagournis Medical Research Facility na jami`ar jihar Ohio.
An nuna shi a cikin fina-finai na BBC Biyu Motherland: A Genetic Journey and Motherland - Moving On (wanda aka saki a cikin 2003 da 2004, bi da bi), da kuma a cikin sashi na 4 na 2006 PBS jerin Rayuwar Rayuwar Amurkawa ta Afirka (wanda Henry Louis Gates ya shirya).  A ranar 7 ga Oktoba, 2007, an nuna shi a mujallar TV ta Amurka ta Minti 60 . A cikin Fabrairu 2008 ya bayyana a cikin kashi na 4 na Rayuwar Baƙin Amurkawa 2 .
Ya buga littafi akan akan bambance-bambancen kwayoyin halitta da kwayoyin cutar kansar prostate na Amurkawa na Afirka . Bugu da kari, ya gano, ta hanyar nazarin DNA, ya samo asali ne daga mutanen Dakar, Senegal, da Hausawan Najeriya . 
## Gudunmawar kimiyya
Kittles ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin farkon masana ilimin halitta don gano asalin asalin mutanen Afirka ta hanyar gwajin DNA. Wannan ya sa, kamar yadda aka ambata a sashen tarihin rayuwa, ya kafa kamfanin African Ancestry Inc., wanda ya zama babban mai ba da shawara ga gano asalin mutanen da suka fito daga Afirka.  An san Kittles da aikin da yake yi akan cutar sankara ta prostate amma yana ba da wani ɓangare na lokacinsa don yin nazari da bincike wasu cututtuka kamar su ciwon hanji da kansar nono, sickle cell anemia, jajayen ƙwayoyin cuta na jini, da hawan jini na huhu .  Kittles ya kasance mai ba da shawara don nazarin ciwon daji na prostate tsakanin Amurkawa Afirka don yawancin aikinsa na kimiyya; Babban damuwarsa duk da haka, shine gano yadda kwayoyin halitta da muhalli ke kara haɗarin cutar kansar prostate.
Kittles ya gudanar da bincike mai yawa, ciki har da wallafe kusan 160 Kittles kuma ya kasance wani ɓangare na ci gaba da yawa da suka haɗa da ci gaban alamomin kwayoyin halitta da kuma yadda za a iya amfani da zuriyar mutum don taimakawa wajen gano haɗarin cututtuka da sakamakon lafiya.  Kwanan nan, Kittles da tawagarsa suna gudanar da gwaje-gwajen jerin kwayoyin halitta don gwadawa da gano bambancin kwayoyin halittar da ke shafar martanin mutum ga kwayoyi. 
## Wallafe Wallafe
-Kittles, Ricky Antonius (1998). "Kalbarun Al'ummar Finnish: Yin Amfani da Tarihin Juyin Halitta na Halitta don Yawan Jama'a da Nazarin Cututtuka." Ph.D. karatun digiri. Washington, DC: Jami'ar George Washington.

-Kittles, Rick, da Charmaine Royal (2003). "The Genetics of African Americans: Impresses for Disease Gene Mapping and Identity." A cikin Halittar Halitta/Al'ada: Ilimin ɗan Adam da Kimiyya Bayan Rarraba Al'adu Biyu, ed. Alan H. Goodman, Deborah Heath, da M. Susan Lindee (Takardun da aka gabatar a taron tattaunawa na kasa da kasa na gidauniyar Wenner-Gren, da aka gudanar a watan Yuni 11–19, 1999 a Teresopolis, Brazil). Berkeley, California: Jami'ar California Press, pp. 219-233. . ISBN 0-520-23793-5 .
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