Marie-Claire King

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Marie-Claire King is currently American Cancer Society Professor of Medicine and Genetics at the University of Washington. She is credited, along with Allan Wilson, of discovering the astonishing similarites between human and chimp DNA while a graduate student at the University of California, Berkely in 1975.

Her subsequent QTL studies on breast cancer let to the isolation, in 1994, of the BRCA1 gene, which is used to diagnose the 5-10% of breast cancers that are hereditary.

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