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Medical genetics

Letters

Non‐invasive prenatal testing: clinical utility and ethical concerns about recent advances

Joseph Thomas, James Harraway and David Kirchhoffer

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (8): 384-384.e1

Perspectives

The future of brain banking in Australia: an integrated brain and body biolibrary

Amanda Rush and Greg T Sutherland

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (10): 447-449.e1

Letters

A surveillance clinic for children and adolescents with, or at risk of, hereditary cancer predisposition syndromes

Nicholas Leedman, Murray Princehorn, Nicholas Gottardo, Claire Franklin, Rebecca D'Souza and Catherine E Kiraly‐Borri

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (7): 335-335.e1

Ethics and law

Non‐invasive prenatal testing: clinical utility and ethical concerns about recent advances

Joseph Thomas, James Harraway and David Kirchhoffer

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (4): 168-170.e1

Perspectives

Monitoring the genetic testing and life insurance moratorium in Australia: a national research project

Jane Tiller, Ingrid Winship, Margaret FA Otlowski and Paul A Lacaze

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (4): 157-159.e1

Research letter

Successful containment to date of SARS‐CoV‐2 transmission in the Northern Territory

Nicholas M Douglas, Ella M Meumann, Vicki L Krause and Jane Davies, for the Northern Territory COVID‐19 Response Group

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (5): 218-219 Free

Ethics and law

Ethical and practical implications of returning genetic research results: two Australian case studies

Jane Tiller, Alison H Trainer, Ian Campbell and Paul A Lacaze

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (6): 259-262.e1

Ethics and law

Ethical issues in reproductive genetic carrier screening

Lisa Dive and Ainsley J Newson

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (4): 165-167.e1 Free

Medical education / Lessons from practice

Candida auris in an Australian health care facility: importance of screening high risk patients

Leon J Worth, Simon J Harrison, Michael Dickinson, Annaliese Diemen, Jennifer Breen, Susan Harper, Caroline Marshall, Deborah A Williamson, Karin A Thursky and Monica A Slavin

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (11): 510-511.e1

Perspectives

Lessons learned in genetic research with Indigenous Australian participants

Steven YC Tong, Heather D'Antoine, Melita McKinnon, Kyle Turner, Maui Hudson, Ngiare Brown, Jonathan R Carapetis and Dawn C Bessarab

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (5): 200-202.e1 Free

Perspectives

The ethics approval process for multisite research studies in Australia: changes sought by the Australian Genomics initiative

Matilda A Haas, Tiffany F Boughtwood and Michael CJ Quinn, on behalf of Australian Genomics

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (10): 440-444.e1

Research

The predicted impact and cost‐effectiveness of systematic testing of people with incident colorectal cancer for Lynch syndrome

Yoon‐Jung Kang, James Killen, Michael Caruana, Kate Simms, Natalie Taylor, Ian M Frayling, Tristan Snowsill, Nicola Huxley, Veerle MH Coupe, Suzanne Hughes, Victoria Freeman, Alex Boussioutas, Alison H Trainer, Robyn L Ward, Gillian Mitchell, Finlay A Macrae and Karen Canfell

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (2): 72-81 Free

Letters

The Guttmacher–Lancet Commission on sexual and reproductive health and rights: how does Australia measure up?

R John Massie and Martin B Delatycki

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (8): 381-381.e1

Letters

Updated prevalence of monogenic diabetes in Australia: Fremantle Diabetes Study Phase 2

Timothy ME Davis, Ashley E Makepeace, Kirsten Peters, Kevin Colclough and Wendy A Davis

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (4): 189-189.e1

Perspectives

Inclusion of Indigenous Australians in biobanks: a step to reducing inequity in health care

Imogen Elsum, Callum McEwan, Emma E Kowal, Yvonne Cadet‐James, Margaret Kelaher and Lynn Woodward

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (1): 7-9.e1 Free

Consensus statement

Updated Australian consensus statement on management of inherited bleeding disorders in pregnancy

Scott Dunkley, Julie A Curtin, Anthony J Marren, Robert P Heavener, Simon McRae and Jennifer L Curnow

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (7): 326-332

Expanding the evidence base in digital health

Preparing Australia for genomic medicine: data, computing and digital health

David P Hansen, Marcel E Dinger, Oliver Hofmann, Natalie Thorne and Tiffany F Boughtwood

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (6): S30-S32 Free

Medical education / Snapshot

Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia

Varitsara Mangkorntongsakul and Cecily J Forsyth

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (1): 16

Perspectives

Medicare-funded cancer genetic tests: a note of caution

Judy Kirk, Kristine K Barlow-Stewart, Nicola K Poplawski, Margaret Gleeson, Kathy Tucker and Michael Friedlander

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (5): 193-196

Study protocol

Cancer Molecular Screening and Therapeutics (MoST): a framework for multiple, parallel signal-seeking studies of targeted therapies for rare and neglected cancers

Subotheni Thavaneswaran, Lucille Sebastian, Mandy Ballinger, Megan Best, Dominique Hess, Chee K Lee, Katrin M Sjoquist, Wendy E Hague, Phyllis N Butow, R John Simes and David Thomas

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (8): 354-355 Free

Perspectives

Identifying genes in Parkinson disease: state of the art

Elaine GY Chew, Jia Nee Foo and Eng-King Tan

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (9): 381-382

Perspectives

Whole genome sequencing provides better diagnostic yield and future value than whole exome sequencing

John S Mattick, Marcel Dinger, Nicole Schonrock and Mark Cowley

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (5): 197-199

Editorials

Lung health in a changing world

Matthew J Peters and Jane E Bourke

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (10): 426-428

Editorials

Explaining the high prevalence of young-onset diabetes among Asians and Indigenous Australians

Elaine Chow and Juliana CN Chan

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (8): 331-332

Letters

A review of maturity onset diabetes of the young (MODY) and challenges in the management of glucokinase-MODY

Ramy H Bishay and Jerry R Greenfield

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (5): 223