Dianne Sylvester PhD. Sydney. 👩🏻🔬 Researching genetic predisposition to childhood cancer🎗. Love to cook👩🍳. WSW⚽️Matildas. Netball. she/her
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Joined April 2009
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6/ We treated 11 patients on trial, 9 of whom experienced neurological improvements after IV CAR T cell therapy and went on to receive further intracranial doses of CAR T cells. Seven of the 11 patients showed overall shrinkage of their tumors, 4 of whom had overall reductions in tumor volume over 50%. The tumor responses fit a bell-shaped curve (Gaussian distribution). From the perspective of change in tumor size, there were no outliers.
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We’re thrilled to announce the publication of SpliceVarDB: A comprehensive database of experimentally validated human splicing variants in @AJHGNews 🧬
📖 cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002…
#splicing #GeneChat
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Phenotypes associated with ERG germline mutations will continue to grow. Anything vascular and developmental. Keep an eye out for cnLOH and low mutant allele freq at the ERG locus. We have functional assays for VUSs so pls contact us if you think you have something interesting.
Finally able to share our work “Germline ERG haploinsufficiency defines a new syndrome with cytopenia and hematological malignancy predisposition” in full (well at least pt1). It is out as a First Edition preprint in Blood ashpublications.org/blood/ar…
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Finally able to share our work “Germline ERG haploinsufficiency defines a new syndrome with cytopenia and hematological malignancy predisposition” in full (well at least pt1). It is out as a First Edition preprint in Blood ashpublications.org/blood/ar…
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Are you looking for a PhD project in #childhood #cancer and #proteomics to start in 2025? At @CMRI_AUS #ProCan and @Sydney_Uni. With myself and paediatric oncologist @bhavna_padhye.
Please RT. #datascience #bioinformatics #biology
sydney.edu.au/research/oppor….
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Exciting news for pediatric healthcare professionals! 🌟 Check out the latest clinical updates and surveillance recommendations for DNA replication-repair deficiency syndromes.
Congratulations IRRDC Co-Lead, Dr. Anirban Das🧬tinyurl.com/33zxsm34
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We have a new review article published in #DNARepair journal. Everything you ever wanted to know about FANCM, and its role in processing replication forks, R-loops, ICL traverse, and recombination.
Written by @LaraAbbouche and @RBDdoesDNA and... me!
authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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Oceanian ancestries are among the most under-represented in reference databases and genomic research. Which is a shame, because to understand if this variant TRULY causes a relatively rare disease, we really needed to know how often it occurs in these populations /6
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We are delighted to publish guidance for applying segregation (PP1 & BS4) and phenotype specificity (PP4) evidence to variant classification - both important approaches to implicate the variant's locus in disease. Special thanks to Les and the whole team! authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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Beyond 'winning at all costs': shifting the narrative on female sports participation croakey.org/beyond-winning-a… #publichealth
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Big shoutout to all my amazing collaborators 🙌🏻: Kartik Bhatia, David Lord, @muppys, Geoff McCowage, @CarolineBatema8 , @bhavna_padhye, Mark Dexter, and @DrJonathanK. #CCRU @kids_research @westmeadkids teamwork makes the dream work
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The #gnomAD team is proud to announce the release of gnomAD v4! The v4 dataset includes 730,947 exomes & 76,215 genomes, which is ~5x larger than the v2 & v3 releases combined, & includes nearly 120K indivs of non-European genetic ancestry broad.io/gnomad_v4 #ASHG23 (1/11)
Current and new frontiers in hereditary cancer surveillance: Opportunities for liquid biopsy pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3780…
Prevalence and spectrum of cancer predisposition germline mutations in young patients with the common late-onset cancers pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3761…
The world’s top melanoma pathologist has brain cancer. Can he save himself? - The Sydney Morning Herald apple.news/A1AANQxwgSAGH8Wcc…
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Productive meetings at Parliament today advocating for federal #DIPG #DMG RESEARCH funding to help achieve >2-yrs OS. An unacceptable statistic, but >2x better than now; biggest unmet clinical need!
Tx for your support @AussieDIPG @AustralianLabor @Mark_Butler_MP we can do this!!
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Thousands of patients from our Westmead hospital have contributed to a worldwide understanding of paediatric #cancer through Biospecimen #Research Services.
This #ChildhoodCancerAwarenessMonth, we're celebrating its 25th anniversary & all it has achieved.schn.health.nsw.gov.au/news/…
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Congratulations to our PhD student, @aysebercan7, on her newest paper, "The Clinical and Biological Landscape of Constitutional Mismatch Repair Deficiency: An IRRDC Study"👏🎉View the preprint here: ssrn.com/abstract=4555260
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We are excited to announce that Dr Benjamin Nash from the Children's Hospital at Westmead @SCHNkids has been named as the recipient of the 2023 @PacBio ANZ Revio HiFi SMRT Grant!
Read more via our website NEWS AND MEDIA.
#AGRF #Genomics #Revio #LongReadSeq @mscienceaustnz – at Melbourne, Victoria
Clinical trio genome sequencing facilitates the interpretation of variants in cancer predisposition genes in paediatric tumour patients pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3750…