What collage did she get her mathematics degree in?
Carleton College.
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What collage was King a professor at?
at the University of Washington
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What is one thing about King?
King married and divorced a fellow scientist with whom she had one child with.
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What did she learn about breast cancer?
breast cancer is inherited in some families.
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What happened to her childhood friend? What age was King?
Her childhood best friend died of cancer when King was 15 years old.
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What scientists does King continues to work with?
Karen Avraham and Moien Kanaan
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What college did King graduate from? What age?
She graduated from Carleton College at the age of 19
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what year has she started working in with scientists around the world? What causes did she identify?
with scientists around the world to identify genetic causes of hearing loss and deafness
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What did she demonstrate in 1990?
she demonstrated in 1990 that a single gene on chromosome 17, later known as BRCA1
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What is king's Nationality?
American
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What other project did King work on?
she worked on the Human Genome Diversity Project.
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What year did she get her P.H.D? What college did she get her P.H.D from?
Ph.D. from the University of California in 1972/1973.
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what collage did King become an American human professor of genetics?
She is an American human geneticist and a professor at the University of Washington.
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What is her daughter's name?
Emily
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What is King known for? What r her 3 major accomplishments?
identifying breast cancer genes; demonstrating that humans and chimpanzees are 99% genetically identical and applying genomic sequencing to identify victims of human rights abuses.
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What was King also involved in?
she was also involved in DNA investigations.
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What did she study?
She studies the genetics and interaction of genetics and environmental influences on human conditions such as HIV, lupus, inherited deafness, and also breast and ovarian cancer
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What is her current research?
breast cancer and genetics as well as mapping and cloning the gene for inherited deafness