Mary-Claire King
American geneticist
Mary-Claire King is an American geneticist. She was the first to show that breast cancer can be inherited due to mutations in the gene she called BRCA1. She studies human genetics and is particularly interested in genetic heterogeneity and complex... Wikipedia
Born: 1946 (age 78 years), Illinois
Education: University of California San Francisco Parnassus Campus (1974–1976), University of California, Berkeley (1967–1972), and Carleton College (1963–1966)
Known for: Breast cancer gene discovery; Forensic genetics for human rights
Doctoral advisor: Allan Wilson
Thesis: Protein polymorphisms in chimpanzee and human evolution (1973)