# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/janet-kelso
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:24:06.395Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/janet-kelso"
name: "Janet Kelso"
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description: "Janet Kelso is a South African computational biologist and Group leader of the Minerva Research Group for Bioinformatics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. She is best known for her work comparing DNA from previous humans with those of the present."
tagline: "South African bioinformatician"
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country:
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birthDate: "1975-03-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump