Family
Beutler is Ashkenazi Jewish, the son of Ernest Beutler (geneticist) and Brondelle May Fleisher (journalist). He married Barbara Beutler (née Lanzl) in 1980 and divorced in 1988, Beutler has three children: Daniel (b. 1983), Elliot (b. 1984), and Jonathan (b. 1987).
His father, Ernest Beutler, a hematologist and medical geneticist, was also a Professor and Department Chairman at Scripps.
Bruce's grandmother, Kathe Beutler, was the first cousin of Kurt Rosenthal, grandfather of Pamela Ronald, who discovered the first plant pattern recognition receptor, XA21. The Beutler and Rosenthal families fled Berlin after Hitler came to power and reunited in California after the war.
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