Identification Of Protein Altering Variants Influencing Preeclampsia Risk
Funder
National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Amount
$572,014.00
Summary
Preeclampsia is a common and serious pregnancy disorder for which there is currently no early diagnostic test or cure other than delivery. It is also associated with later life cardiovascular disease. The identification of gene mutations for preeclampsia in this study will provide insight into the cause of this disorder that may lead to new treatments and tests to predict those women at risk.
Cancer is a genetic disease – it occurs because of genetic changes in the body that change how a cell grows, and because it occurs more often in people who have an inherited predisposition to cancer. My aim is to uncover more of the genetic events that give rise to cancer, particularly of the breast, ovary and stomach, so that we can identify people at high risk, and advice them accordingly, and also so that we can devise better treatments directed at particular genetic alterations.