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Dr. Rob Whitley featured in Montreal Gazette
What if you learn your father is not your father?
Rob Whitley, an associate professor in McGill University’s department of psychiatry, was at a conference in Brussels a few years ago when the subject came up in a talk about the social aspects of DNA testing given by Belgian biologist and geneticist Maarten Larmuseau. “And I was thinking, ‘This will have huge mental-health impacts,'” recalled Whitley, a research scientist at the Douglas Research Centre.