Latest Media Statements
03-07-2008
Health sciences meet the information highway, Professor Matthew Bellgard
A NEW high-performance computer, several staff appointments including programmers, data analysts and a research fellow and 37 projects it is either leading or collaborating read on...
10-06-2008
Marrying cousin not a health risk - geneticist, Professor Alan Bittles
For the past 30 years geneticist Professor Alan Bittles, of the Centre for Comparative Genomics at Murdoch University in Western Australia, has been studying the effects of consanguineous, or same-blood marriages on children. In New Zealand it is not read on...
09-06-2008
Cousin marriage: A cause for concern?, Professor Alan Bittles
Over a billion people worldwide live in regions where 20-50 per cent of marriages are consanguineous, and first-cousin unions are especially popular. Discussion of this phenomenon is confused by the fact that its causes are social and economic, while read on...
Latest News
- The Functional & Integrative Genomics Journal (CCG's Professor Rudi Appels Editor-in-Chief and Professor Matthew Bellgard Managing Editor) has been assigned its first Impact Factor of 4.18 more...
- Professor Matthew Bellgard member of the 19th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW) 2008 National Organising Committee more...
- CCG's Research Leader, Professor Rudi Appels, to present at the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium Meeting on Sunday 24 August 2008 as part of the 11th International Wheat Genetics Sympsoium more...
- The iVEC Informatics Facility located within the CCG has completed commissioning the new High Performance Computing SGI Altix XE310 Cluster System. more...
Selected latest Publications
- Consanguinity and Child Health more...
- Intestinal Spirochaetes of the Genus Brachyspira Share a Partially Conserved 26 Kilobase Genomic Region with more...
- Inherited Dimensions of Human Populations in the Past more
- A mutation at the Ala122 position of acetohydroxyacid synthase (AHAS) located on chromosome 6D of wheat more...
- Fine scale genetic and physical mapping using interstitial delection mutants of LR34/Yr18 more...
- BAC-derived markers for assaying the stem rust resistance gene, Sr2, in wheat breeding programs more...
