Gardner of Gardner’s Syndrome

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• Eldon John Gardner, MD. (Reprinted from Am J Hum Genet 1989;45:471–473.)

Eldon John Gardner (1909–1989) was born in Logan, Utah, and obtained his BS and MS degrees at Utah State University, then his PhD in zoology at the University of California, Berkeley. He rose through the academic ranks at the University of Utah to become professor of zoology and dean of the School of Graduate Studies. His principal research interest was in human genetics and the inheritance of cancer. In 1951, he published an account of familial adenomatous polyposis in a large Utah kindred, accompanied by fibrous dysplasia of the skull and osteofibromas and marked by a propensity to cancer of the colon (Am J Hum Genet 3:167), a condition that became known as Gardner’s syndrome.