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Genetic Repositories Australia

Genetic Repositories Australia. BACKGROUND GRA supported by an NHMRC Enabling Facility Grant awarded in 2006. Chief Investigators on the NHMRC Enabling Grant are – Professor Peter Schofield (Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute & University of New South Wales)

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Genetic Repositories Australia

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  1. Genetic Repositories Australia • BACKGROUND • GRA supported by an NHMRC Enabling Facility Grant awarded in 2006. • Chief Investigators on the NHMRC Enabling Grant are – • Professor Peter Schofield (Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute & University of New South Wales) • Dr Juleen Cavanaugh (Australian National University, Medical School, Canberra Hospital) • Dr Susan Forrest (Australian Genome Research Facility) • Professor John Hopper (Centre for Genetic Epidemiology University of Melbourne) • GRA is based at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute in Sydney. • Facility Manager is Mr Steve Turner.

  2. GRA - Aims and Objectives • GRA aims to provide a central national facility for – • establishing • distributing and • maintaining the long-term secure storage of human genetic samples from a variety of sources. • GRA aims to facilitate world-class collaborative health and medical research in Australia, and internationally through: • the provision of clinically validated but de-identified patient material • complete phenotypic descriptors of disease and family, or cohort structure • permits genetic analyses for disease gene identification.

  3. GRA - Services • A central facility for the processing of blood samples and production of B-lymphoblastoid cell lines. • Extraction of DNA from blood or cell lines. • Samples will be processed from patients, controls and epidemiological participants from studies on a range of diseases and their outcomes. • DNA and immortalized cell lines will be stored for distribution to qualified investigators. • Samples available for distribution will be processed at a subsidised academic rate. • Fee-for-service work can be performed for samples not available for distribution.

  4. GRA FURTHER INFORMATION Mr Steve Turner, Facility Manager (GRA) Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute Randwick, Sydney, Email: gra@unsw.edu.au Telephone: (+ 61 2) 9399 1068 Website: www.powmri.edu.au/gra.htm

  5. The ARCBS Aussie Normals • 1000 ARCBS blood donors – healthy Caucasians • Cell lines & DNA • DNA available in 96 well plates from mid April 2007 • Biochemical phenotype available via collaboration with researchers (Cavanaugh & Hickman @ ANU) • Projects subject to approval by ARCBS

  6. AGRF Services • SNP Discovery • Genotyping • Expression analysis

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