Editing David C. Page (section)

==Education and early life==
Page was born in [[Harrisburg, Pennsylvania]], in 1956 and grew up in the rural outskirts of [[Pennsylvania Dutch Country|Pennsylvania Dutch country]].<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal|title = Profile of David C. Page|journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|date = 2006|issn = 0027-8424|pmc = 1413862|pmid = 16481618|pages = 2471–2473|volume = 103|issue = 8|doi = 10.1073/pnas.0600615103|first = Bijal|last = Trivedi|bibcode = 2006PNAS..103.2471T|doi-access = free}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title = Why, Oh Y? {{!}} The Scientist Magazine|url = http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/41689/title/Why--Oh-Y-/|website = The Scientist|access-date = 2016-02-04}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://d3fnt9hd6tfohz.cloudfront.net/assets/issues/MURJ29_full.pdf|title = MURJ Spotlight: Professor David C. Page, Director of the Whitehead Institute|last1 = Jagetia|first1 = Riya|date = Spring 2015|journal = MIT Undergraduate Research Journal|access-date = 4 February 2016|last2 = Berg|first2 = Elizabeth|last3 = Kim|first3 = Jae Hyun|last4 = Jones|first4 = Brianna|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160223095046/http://d3fnt9hd6tfohz.cloudfront.net/assets/issues/MURJ29_full.pdf|archive-date = 23 February 2016}}</ref> The first of his family to go to college, Page attended [[Swarthmore College]], where he graduated with a [[B.A.]] with highest honors in chemistry in 1978.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title = DAVID PAGE LABORATORY|url = http://pagelab.wi.mit.edu/|website = pagelab.wi.mit.edu|access-date = 2016-02-04}}</ref> During his final year at Swarthmore, Page attended class just one day a week and spent the rest of his time researching [[chromatin]] structure in the laboratory of molecular biologist Robert Simpson at the [[National Institutes of Health]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> In 1978, Page enrolled at [[Harvard Medical School]] and the [[Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology|Harvard-MIT Health Sciences Program]], where he worked in the laboratories of [[David Botstein]] at MIT and Raymond White at the [[University of Massachusetts Medical School]].<ref name=":1" /> In White's lab, Page worked on a project to develop a [[Genetic linkage|genetic linkage map]] of the human genome that would become a precursor to the [[Human Genome Project]].<ref name=":5" /> The work relied on locating [[restriction fragment length polymorphism]]s (RFLP). The first RFLP that Page found was from a site of homology between the [[X chromosome]] and Y chromosome, a coincidence that would set the direction of his subsequent career.<ref name=":5" />

Page finished his [[M.D.]] degree in the spring of 1984 and started his own lab as the first Whitehead Fellow at the [[Whitehead Institute|Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research]] researching the genetics of [[XX male syndrome]], or de la Chapelle Syndrome.<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":1" /> After Page won the [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur "Genius Grant"]] in 1986, Page was promoted to the faculty of the Whitehead Institute and the [[MIT Department of Biology]] in 1988.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite journal|url = http://bulletin.swarthmore.edu/bulletin-issue-archive/wp-content/archived_issues_pdf/Bulletin_1999_09.pdf|title = Save the males: David Page '78 reveals the evolutionary roots of sex and gender|last = Cruzan Morton|first = Carol|date = September 1999|journal = Swarthmore Bulletin|access-date = 4 February 2016}}</ref> In 1990, Page was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, and in 2005 he was named as director of the Whitehead Institute.<ref name=":1" />