The Genetics and Health Team's priorities lie in understanding the biological mechanisms behind development of a range of rare and complex diseases, to help improve diagnosis, treatment and prevention both in Australian populations and internationally. ...

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Human genetic research promises to deliver a range of health benefits to the population. Here we consider how the different levels of Indigenous research... ...

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• 2012
• December 2012

Establishing a genomic reference for Australian Aboriginal populations ...

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• 2016
• January 2016

Reviewed in this article these studies have identified positive association at 21 genes with association at five of these replicated in independent populations. ...

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• 2012
• March 2012

Otitis media (OM) is a common childhood disease characterised by middle ear inflammation following infection ...

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• 2011
• July 2011

An internationally recognised researcher at the Telethon Kids Institute has been made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science ...

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• 2015
• May

Jenefer Sarra Blackwell Jamieson JM SE BSc with First Class Honours, PhD, DSc, FMedSci, FAA BSc (Hons) MSc PhD Head, Genetics & Health Senior ...

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• 2016
• March 2016

Here we focus on the problem of prioritising variants with respect to the observed disease phenotype ...

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• 2019
• November 2019

Otitis media (OM) is a common disease in early childhood characterised by inflammation of the middle ear. ...

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• 2013
• January 2013

We identified several novel candidate genes which warrant further analysis in cohorts matched more precisely for clinical phenotypes. ...

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• 2012
• January 2012