Sally James, past NSWA president, is also a science explainer—and now a film promoter. Sally tells us the backstory behind Angelina Jolie’s choice to have breast mastectomy because she inherited the BRCA1 mutation. Join Sally and others at the Seattle International Film Festival premiere of a movie about Mary-Claire King, the University of Washington geneticist behind BRCA1.
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