New high-risk variants for colorectal cancer: the post-GWAS era

Funding Activity

Website
http://grants.uberresearch.com/501100000925/http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/628836/Discovering-new-genes-for-bowel-cancer

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Our aim is to discover new genes that greatly increase bowel cancer risk. If we can identify these carriers we may be able to prevent them getting cancer. By studying DNA related to bowel cancer, using a novel family design, we will identify families most likely to carry the new genes. We will focus genetic testing, using new techniques, to look for mutations in these prioritised families. Identified mutations will be tested in a 3,500 bowel cancer cases to see how important they are.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 01-01-2013

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $710,105.00

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

colorectal cancer | colorectal cancer risk | family design | genetics | genome-wide association studies | high-risk mutations | inherited mutations

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