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One in twenty five couples found to be at high risk of having a baby with a recessive genetic condition

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WA’s first pre-pregnancy study finishing screening for more than 200 couples The first major pre-pregnancy screening study in WA found around 4% of couples were at risk of having a…

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Changing view of Muscular Dystrophy

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Perkins PhD student, Dr Macarena Cabrera-Serrano, from the Laboratory for Neurogenetic Diseases, was lead author on the paper, Expanding the phenotype of GMPPB mutations. Although Congenital Muscular Dystrophy has several…

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Perth team solve forty-year genetic mystery

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Research involving teams in Perth, Spain and Sweden identified the genetic mutation for the late-onset muscle weakening disease. Professor Nigel Laing AO, Head of the Neurogenetic Disease Laboratory at the…

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Perth scientists part of international hunt for disease genes

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Having conducted genetic sequencing on Australian and NZ samples at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, it’s now time to take her samples to a team in London to…

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Stem cell reprogramming mystery clarified by new findings

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In a study, published in Cell Stem Cell, researchers from the University of Western Australia, the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, and Monash University describe key drivers of the process…

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Better diagnosis thanks to advanced new technology

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Working with international research groups, including the Broad Institute in Boston, the teams used a new technology called RNA-sequencing that interprets the ‘messages’ from genes, rather than observing the genes…

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Ground-breaking new study doubles the estimate of our functional genes

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The findings, published in Nature, were the latest work of the FANTOM5 consortium, a group of researchers from Japan and Australia led by Professor Alistair Forrest from the Perkins and The University of…

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Sudden infant cardiac death explained by gene mutation

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Last year the Perkins Neurogenetic Diseases Laboratory received DNA from a family in Scotland whose four-month-old baby had tragically suffered a cardiac arrest and died. With the family’s permission, their doctor sent…