July 11, 2019

Dr. Colin Pritchard authors Nature editorial

People of all sexes can have risk genes that are often assumed to affect only women. Renaming the syndrome should aid cancer prevention and treatment, argues Colin C. Pritchard.

Pritchard proposed renaming the syndrome after Mary-Claire King, a geneticist who was among the first to recognize that cancer could be inherited along a single gene. A professor of genome science and of medicine at the UW School of Medicine, King is a long-term advocate for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation testing to help prevent premature death from cancer.  Dr. King is also an Associate Director of the UW MSTP.

Colin Pritchard graduated the MSTP in 2007. He is currently an associate professor of laboratory medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine and head of precision diagnostics at the Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine in Seattle.

You can read the full article at https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02015-7