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lauren.akesson@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Casual
Department of Clinical Pathology
Education
Doctorate
The University of Western Australia
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
The University of Western Australia

Dr Lauren Akesson

Clinical (Senior Lecturer)
Department of Medicine

11 Scholarly works
0 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2024

    Journal article

    Narrowing the diagnostic gap: Genomes, episignatures, long-read sequencing, and health economic analyses in an exome-negative intellectual disability cohort
    DOI: 10.1016/j.gim.2024.101076
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Distinct diagnostic trajectories in NBAS-associated acute liver failure highlights the need for timely functional studies
    DOI: 10.1002/jmd2.12280
  • 2022

    Journal article

    Standardized practices for RNA diagnostics using clinically accessible specimens reclassifies 75% of putative splicing variants
    DOI: 10.1016/j.gim.2021.09.001
  • 2021

    Journal article

    Microarray diagnosis of autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal dystrophy caused by a novel homozygous intragenic AIRE deletion
    DOI: 10.1111/jpc.15124
  • 2021

    Journal article

    Peripartum Sinus Pauses in a Patient with a New Diagnosis of Congenital Long QT-2 Syndrome–A Management Dilemma
    DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2021.06.349
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Rapid exome sequencing and adjunct RNA studies confirm the pathogenicity of a novel homozygousASNSsplicing variant in a critically ill neonate
    DOI: 10.1002/humu.24101
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Feasibility of Ultra-Rapid Exome Sequencing in Critically Ill Infants and Children with Suspected Monogenic Conditions in the Australian Public Health Care System
    DOI: 10.1001/jama.2020.7671
Lauren Akesson

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2023
Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia ( FRCPA)
2021
Melody Caramins Trainee and Early Career Genetic Pathology Grant RCPA Foundation
2019
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP)
2010
Medical and Dental Postgraduate Research Scholarship National Health and Medical Research Council

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2020

    Journal article

    Aspergillus infections and progression of structural lung disease in children with cystic fibrosis
    DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201908-1585OC
  • 2020

    Journal article

    Rapid exome sequencing and adjunct rna studies confirm pathogenicity of a novel homozygous asns splicing variant in a critically ill neonate
    DOI: 10.1016/j.pathol.2020.01.363
  • 2019

    Journal article

    Early diagnosis of Pearson syndrome in neonatal intensive care following rapid mitochondrial genome sequencing in tandem with exome sequencing
    DOI: 10.1038/s41431-019-0477-3

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