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David Porteous conceived and initiated Generation Scotland (www.generationscotland.org), a major collaborative initiative between the Scottish Medical Schools and the NHS in Scotland. He trained in genetics at the University of Edinburgh and in 1983 joined the MRC Human Genetics Unit. He is also the founding Director of the Genetics Core at the Wellcome Trust Millennial Clinical Research Facility, providing state-of-the-art genetics and genomics support for clinical investigators.