Parental support is strongly associated with protective factors across a range of child health outcomes for trans young people. Commonly, parents report barriers to supporting their child such as lack of understanding and difficulty in accessing information and support regarding gender diversity. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2024
• May 2024

Young people (aged 12-25 years) with diverse sexuality, gender, or bodily characteristics, such as those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or queer (LGBTIQ+), are at substantially greater risk of a range of mental, physical, and sexual health difficulties compared with their peers. Digital health interventions have been identified as a potential way to reduce these health disparities. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2020
• December 2020

To look at the interplay between PMN and macrophages in disease progression in humans we asked whether polymorphisms at genes that regulate their infiltration.. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2010
• January 2010

Having a walkable built environment is important to encourage active school transport. The aim of this study was to measure the walkability of all Perth, Western Australian schools and investigate whether differences in walkability exist by school type, socioeconomic status and/or subregion.  ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2024
• April 2024

Few studies have examined associations between gender non-conformity (GNC) in childhood or adolescence and mental health outcomes later in life. This study examined associations between GNC and mental health over multiple time points in childhood and adolescence, and GNC in childhood and/or adolescence and mental health in adulthood. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• July 2023

There is a critical need for the field to develop and implement strategies to understand the mechanisms underlying all rare diseases and translate these to clinical care ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• March 2019

We introduce C1 CAGE, a method for the detection of transcript 5'-ends with an original sample multiplexing strategy in the C1TM microfluidic system ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• January 2019

SlideBase, a web tool which offers a new way of selecting genes, promoters, enhancers and microRNAs that are preferentially expressed/used in a specified set of cells/tissues ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2016
• December 2016

Resulting data represents the consequence of transcriptional regulation in each analyzed state of mammalian cells. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2016
• August 2016

Abnormally formed lower limbs with varying degrees of fusion are the major feature of sirenomelia whereas maldeveloped lower limbs without fusion are found in a ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2010
• October 2010

Diet and physical activity are two lifestyle behaviours that are critical for healthy ageing. The aim of this study was to explore how older adults negotiate dietary and physical activity decisions to identify areas of intersection between these two behaviours and inform health promotion interventions targeting both diet and exercise. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• September 2023

Siblings of children with intellectual disability have unique family experiences, varying by type of disability. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• July 2023