September 25, 1968

Dr. Ntinos C. Myrianthopoulos

Head, Section on Epidemiology and Genetics

Perinatal Research Branch

National Institute of Neurological
Diseases and Blindness

National Institutes of Health

Bethesda, Maryland 20014

Dear Dr. Myrianthopoulos:

When I got those tapes from you it must have been a jinx on our computer
system, because it promptly thereafter went into some very serious spells
of hardware problems from which we have only just recovered. I justthought
I would let you know that my interest in working up the data in them has
not flagged, but I have just been unable to do very much about it until the
last week or so.

Mrs. Hwang, my programming assistant, has worked out some very pretty display
programs for extracting individual data items out of the file, and we are
now readdng them on the display scope. If you happen to be by this way and
would have an occasion to have a look we hope you would avail yourself of

the opportunity.

I will continue to gfte this a reasonable amount of attention, but it will
be a little while before I can report any very comprehensive study on the
data files, as I am sure you will understand. +

Sincerely yours,

Joshua Lederberg
Professor of Genetics

So7nod ont NY IVAW