Johns Hopkins Medicine - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatric Genetics Seminar Series
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
5-6 PM
Hurd Hall | The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Finding Genetic Causes of Mental Disorders:
Lessons from genomics studies of other complex traits
Mary-Claire King, PhD
American Cancer Society Professor of Medicine and Genetics
University of Washington
Professor of Genome Sciences and Medicine (Medical Genetics)
Affiliate Member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Highly-respected human geneticist, Mary-Claire King will speak at Hopkins on the search for genetic causes of mental disorders. King's talk comes as part of this year's Psychiatric Genetics Seminar sponsored by the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science. A professor at the University of Washington, King researches the genetics and interaction of genes and environment on HIV, lupus and inherited deafness, as well as on breast and ovarian cancer. In 1990, she demonstrated that a chromosome 17 gene, later known as BRCA1, prompts many breast and ovarian cancers. Her discovery of "the breast cancer gene," as well as the novel techniques used, sparked a new wave of intensive searches for genes underlying more complex human diseases. In separate work that's not a topic of her talk, King is also a noted humanitarian activist, pioneering the use of genomic sequencing to identify people subject to human rights abuses.
Click here for Dr. King's University of Washington Faculty Profile Page
Click here for Dr. King's CV
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