2019 Presidential Address: An Unexceptional President

This address encapsulates two distinct, but related themes. First, that it is the core objective of our Society to provide opportunities for a wide range of individuals—exceptional and not—to succeed in our field and second, that genetic exceptionalism must be extinguished for human genetics to succeed. The first theme of exceptionalism is that this geneticist considers himself fundamentally unexceptional in our field. This raises a host of...