Sentences with phrase «geneticist mary»
Gala showings include two films with Seattle connections: Touchy Feely from Seattle's own Lynn Shelton (which kicks off six days of screenings in Renton) and Decoding Annie Parker, which dramatizes the true story of cancer research breakthrough guided by UW geneticist Mary - Claire King (played in the film by Helen Hunt).
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Based on true events, Decoding Annie Parker tells the life affirming story of two remarkable women; the irrepressible Annie Parker, a three time cancer survivor and the geneticist Mary - Claire King whose discovery of the breast cancer BRCA gene mutation is considered one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century.
Thirty years ago, geneticist Mary - Claire King and biochemist Allan Wilson proposed that changes in how genes are regulated, rather than in the proteins they code for, could explain important differences between chimps and humans (Science, 11 April 1975, p. 107).
On one side of the debate was a team led by breast cancer geneticist Mary - Claire King, who discovered the first inherited breast cancer risk gene, BRCA1.
-- geneticist Mary - Claire King, University of Washington
Cancer geneticist Mary - Claire King of the University of Washington argues that BRCA1's susceptibility to large deletions and genetic rearrangements could lead to sporadic tumors.
In addition, at the request of Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo, geneticists Mary - Claire King and Christian Orrego developed a method for establishing grandpaternity.
Not exact matches
The gene plaguing her family was identified by geneticists Mark Skolnick and Mary - Claire King in 1994 after an intense search.
Geneticist Stephen Rossiter of Queen Mary, University of London, and his colleagues wondered whether bats also rely on FOXP2.
The study, published in the latest issue of the American Journal of Human Genetics represents an important step in our understanding of how the hypothalamus and oxytocin control appetite and behaviour, says Dr Banka, who is also a Consultant Clinical Geneticist at Saint Mary's Hospital at Manchester.
A team led by geneticist Anne Ferguson - Smith of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and diabetes researcher Mary - Elizabeth Patti of Harvard Medical School has now explored this idea by studying the DNA of two generations of mice descended from an undernourished mother.
«It's a reasonable hypothesis, because deaf people tend to marry deaf people,» says David Kelsell, a geneticist at Queen Mary and Westfield College in London, United Kingdom.