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Tracy O'Mara
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Queensland University of Technology
Research areas: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Genetics · Genetic Associations and Epidemiology · Cancer Risks and Factors · Endometrial and Cervical Cancer Treatments
0000-0002-5436-3232
Employment
- 2021 - Present
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QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute Postdoctoral Fellow2012 - Present
Education
- ? - 2013
Projects & Funding
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Harnessing Genetic Insights to Target Obesity-Driven Endometrial Cancer National Health and Medical Research Council2024 - Present
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Using Genetics to Identify New Endometrial Cancer Therapeutics Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs2023 - 2025
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Improving the prediction of endometrial cancer risk using genetics Worldwide Cancer Research2022 - 2024
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Improving the prediction of endometrial cancer risk using genetics Cancer Australia2022 - 2024
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Functional investigation of ovarian and endometrial cancer genetic risk regions. National Health and Medical Research Council2019 - Present
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Joint genome-wide analysis of ovarian and endometrial cancer Cancer Australia2018 - 2020
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Finding genetic risk markers for endometrial and other cancers National Health and Medical Research Council2016 - 2019
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Leveraging genetic data to understand endometrial cancer National Health and Medical Research Council
Publications (101)
- Prioritizing context-specific genetic risk mechanisms in 11 solid cancers Save
- Premenopausal and postmenopausal obesity and endometrial cancer risk: circulating biomarkers of inflammation, insulin resistance, and sex hormones as mediators Save
- The Effect of Circulating Proteins and Their Role in Mediating Adiposity’s Effect on Endometrial Cancer Risk: Mendelian Randomization and Colocalization Analyses Save
- Independent Effects of Hypothyroidism and Obesity on Endometrial Cancer Risk Revealed by Mendelian Randomisation Save
- Novel Shared Heritable Candidate Risk Loci of Breast and Endometrial Cancer—A Swedish Haplotype Genome-Wide Association Study Save
- The Multi‐Kinase Inhibitor GZD824 (Olverembatinib) Shows Pre‐Clinical Efficacy in Endometrial Cancer Save
- Circulating inflammatory and immune response proteins and endometrial cancer risk: a nested case-control study and Mendelian randomization analyses Save
- Using Genetics to Investigate Relationships between Phenotypes: Application to Endometrial Cancer Save
- Genome-wide analyses characterize shared heritability among cancers and identify novel cancer susceptibility regions. Save
- Associations of life course obesity with endometrial cancer in the Epidemiology of Endometrial Cancer Consortium (E2C2). Save
- Multi-trait genome-wide association study identifies a novel endometrial cancer risk locus that associates with testosterone levels. Save
- APOBEC3A/B deletion polymorphism and endometrial cancer risk Save
- Splicing annotation of endometrial cancer GWAS risk loci reveals potentially causal variants and supports a role for NF1 and SKAP1 as susceptibility genes. Save
- Dietary Factors and Endometrial Cancer Risk: A Mendelian Randomization Study Save
- Child and adult adiposity and subtype-specific endometrial cancer risk: a multivariable Mendelian randomisation study Save
- Mendelian randomization analysis of factors related to ovulation and reproductive function and endometrial cancer risk. Save
- Dietary omega-3 fatty acids and endometrial cancer risk in the Epidemiology of Endometrial Cancer Consortium: An individual-participant meta-analysis. Save
- Cigarette Smoking and Endometrial Cancer Risk: Observational and Mendelian Randomization Analyses Save
- Body Size at Different Ages and Risk of 6 Cancers: A Mendelian Randomization and Prospective Cohort Study. Save
- Development and evaluation of polygenic risk scores for prediction of endometrial cancer risk in European women. Save