Complex statistical analyses of genome-wide association studies related to breast and prostate cancers using high performance supercomputing

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1033452

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Breast and prostate cancers are the most common cancers in Australian women and men. Simple analyses of genome-wide association (GWAS) studies explain only a fraction of why these cancers run in families. The University of Melbourne now has a supercomputer that can conduct much more complex analyses. We will apply these to the world’s GWAS data for breast and prostate cancers. We hope to learn more about the causes of these cancers, and expand an expert Australian workforce in supercomputing.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2012

End Date: 01-01-2016

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $656,073.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biostatistics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

breast cancer | computers | epidemiology | gene-environment interaction | genetics | informatics | prostate cancer | statistics

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