Marjolein Kriek

Marjolein Kriek (born 22 November 1973) is a Dutch clinical geneticist at the Leiden University Medical Center. In 2008, at age 34, she became the first woman and probably the first European to have her total DNA genome sequenced. Statue for Marjolein Kriek, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Detail of the computer print:150px

Sequencing project Leiden University announced the completion of the nine-month-long

At the time, Kriek was one of five or six people to have their entire genome sequenced, the others being James D. Watson, Craig Venter, two Yoruba men

Career and research interests Kriek was born in Leiden and obtained her doctorate in Biomedical Science at Leiden University in 2002. Her graduate studies included mutation screening in intellectually disabled people. Kriek's subsequent research interests similarly focussed on the diagnosis and clinical significance of genomic imbalances and micro rearrangements as the causes of developmental delay, intellectual disability and congenital syndromes.