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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

KING, Mary-Claire (1946 – )

1946 –

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1990

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Linkage of early-onset familial breast cancer to Chromosome 17q21.

KING, Mary-Claire (1946 – )

King showed that breast cancer can be inherited due to mutations in the Breast cancer type 1 susceptibility protein, a protein that in humans is encoded by the BRAC1 gene. BRCA1 is a human tumor suppressor gene (also …