In 2001, Patterson joined the Center for Genome Research at
MIT, the
Whitehead Institute. He briefly worked on gene expression data applied to cancer before switching to the study of human genetics.[3]
In 2012, Patterson developed
ADMIXTOOLS, a software package written in
C that is currently widely used by population geneticists.[14]
Chess
Nick Patterson was a child
chess prodigy.[2] He won the
Irish Chess Championship in 1969. In a long game in the
Chess Olympiad of Siegen in 1970, where he played top board for Ireland, he met the Danish grandmaster
Bent Larsen, who was one of the top 10 players in the world at the time, and managed to make a draw after 93 moves.[1]
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"Draft full sequence of Neanderthal Genome". Science. 328 (5979): 710–22.
Bibcode:
2010Sci...328..710G.
doi:
10.1126/science.1188021.
PMC5100745.
PMID20448178.