The 2003 winners of the C. W. Cotterman Awards, honoring the first editor of The American Journal of Human Genetics (July 1949–March 1952), are Lutz Froenicke and Sjoerd Repping. Chosen by the AJHG editorial board as the two outstanding student articles published September 2002–August 2003, the winning articles are:
Froenicke L, Anderson LK, Wienberg J, Ashley T (2002) Male mouse recombination maps for each autosome identified by chromosome painting. Am J Hum Genet 71:1353–1368
Repping S, Skaletsky H, Lange J, Silber S, van der Veen F, Oates RD, Page DC, Rozen S (2002) Recombination between palindromes p5 and p1 on the human Y chromosome causes massive deletions and spermatogenic failure. Am J Hum Genet 71:906–922