Australia Fellowship - Professor John Hopper

Abstract

This Fellowship aims to increase Australia’s capacity for outstanding health and medical research at the highest competitive level internationally by utilising to their full potential the strategically planned population-based research resources I have already established. We have established state of the art protocols for collecting family data, and following up large cohorts of families. We are now in a superb position to rapidly translate genetic findings (ours and others) into clinical and public health programs and evaluate their impacts. This Fellowship should encourage high calibre Australian researchers to continue their work in Australia. It will give the resources in terms of peopl..

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FAVR (Filtering and Annotation of Variants that are Rare): methods to facilitate the analysis of rare germline genetic variants from massively parallel sequencing datasets

Bernard J Pope, Nguyen-Dumont Tu, Fabrice Odefrey, Fleur Hammet, Russell Bell, Kayoko Tao, Sean V Tavtigian, David E Goldgar, Andrew Lonie, Melissa C Southey, Daniel J Park

2013-02-25