Evolution may be responsible for a range of complex traits, including height and waist-to-hip ratio, and diseases such as schizophrenia, research from The University of Queensland shows.
16 May 2018Massive banks of genetic information are being harnessed to shed new light on modifiable health risks that underlie common diseases.
16 January 2018A $7 million Australian Government grant will propel the advance of personalised medicine for common diseases, in a five-year research project at The University of Queensland.
3 March 2016A University of Queensland researcher has been awarded $1.2 million to unlock the genetic underpinning of thousands of diseases, including schizophrenia, Motor Neuron Disease (MND) and cancer.
5 November 2013Since 2005, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have successfully identified thousands of genes responsible for common human diseases.
13 January 2012