On L.A. Livshits own initiative and direct participation the molecular genetic researches of hereditary diseases of monogenic nature and molecular genetic heterogeneity analysis of regional population in Ukraine was started. First the data about the nature, origin and mechanisms of mutant genes expansion, that cause hereditary diseases with early infant mortality and high level disability:(cystic fibrosis, pheniketonuria, spinal muscular atrophy, muscular Duchenne dystrophy, fragile X-chromosome syndrome, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, Huntington`s disease, haemophilia А and hereditary corneal dystrophies) and also men and women infertility in Ukrainian population were obtained. The results concerning spectrum and distribution of certain mutation types and their association with disease phenotype were received. First the new mutation that causes the cystic fibrosis development, spread only among Slavic population, was characterized. Molecular genetic methods for DNA diagnostics (including prenatal diagnostics) of abovementioned diseases were developed and are being applied to health protection practice in Ukraine

Birth date: December 13, 1951. Education: 1969-1975, Kiev State Shevchenko University, Biological department. Academic degree: Ph.D. (1991), Sci.D. (2001). Academic status: Professor (2004). Affiliation: Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Position: Head of the Department of Human Genomics. Scientific awards: Ministry of Education and Science award (2004). Major research interests: human molecular genetics, genome mutations, human genome diversity and evolution. Scientific papers: 157.