Mary-Claire King, Ph.D.
American Cancer Society Professor
Depts of Medicine (Medical Genetics) and Genome Sciences
Professor of Genome Sciences and Medicine (Medical
Genetics)
Affiliate Member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Health Sciences Room K-160
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle WA 98195-7720
phone (206) 616-4294; fax (206) 616-4295
E-mail: mcking@u.washington.edu
Research Profile (Community of Science)
Dr. King’s group studies the genetics of complex, common human conditions. Their primary areas of interest are breast and ovarian cancer and inherited deafness. Their approach is to apply human genetics and genomics to identification and characterization of critical genes in informative families and populations. Because these conditions are not purely genetic, they also study the interaction between genetic and environmental influences on human traits. Dr. King’s lab also applies genomic sequencing to the identification of victims of human rights abuses.
Investigator: Dr. King is a Professor of Medicine (Medical Genetics) and Genetics and an American Cancer Society professor.
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