Using twin and family studies to make genomics relevant to population health

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1137349

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

This Fellowship will make major impacts on health by building on decades of research creating large studies of families, and in particular twins. One aim is to produce a simple web-based tool for women to accurately know their risk of breast cancer based on family history, mammography and genetic markers. This could transform breast and genetic screening across the world. Another is to develop new ways of analysing twin data which resolve which risk factors are causal and relevant to prevention.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2018

End Date: 01-01-2022

Funding Scheme: Research Fellowships

Funding Amount: $876,005.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Cancer Genetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

breast cancer | epidemiology | risk prediction | statistics | twin studies

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