ABOVE: Warren sitting at his desk in 1999
BOBBY HAWKINS PHOTOGRAPHY
Geneticist Stephen Warren died at his home in Atlanta after a brief illness on June 6. Warren was best known for his work identifying the mutations responsible for fragile X syndrome, a genetic disorder linked to intellectual disabilities and certain mood disorders. He was 67.
Warren was born an only child in what was then known as East Detroit in 1953. He told PNAS in a 2015 profile that it was his father, a dentist, who sparked his love of science. In 1972, he began his undergraduate studies at Michigan State University, initially studying zoology. According to a profile by Emory University, Warren’s introduction to genetics came when he started a part-time job running diagnostic tests. He ended up taking every graduate-level genetics course the school offered, and during the summers, he returned to Detroit to work with geneticists at ...
