Mary-Claire King ’67 cited in NPR interview about ‘Argentina’s stolen children’
King studied mathematics at Carleton.
Mary-Claire King ’67 was cited in an NPR interview titled, “Argentina’s stolen children grapple with finding their place in history.” In the piece, Haley Cohen Gilliland talks about her book, A Flower Traveled In My Blood, about the work of the Abuelas of the Plaza de Mayo and how Argentina’s stolen children have grappled with finding their place in history.
Together, the abuelas and Dr. King were able to develop a pioneering new form of genetic testing called the grandpaternity index that allowed the abuelas to connect themselves to their stolen grandchildren genetically at a time when that was completely unheard of.