Howard Slater
Professor
Genetics
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia
Biography
Associate Professor Howard Slater gained his PhD from the University of Glasgow in 1982 and a Diploma then Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists (UK) in 1985 and 2004 respectively. He is also a Fellow of the Human Genetics Society of Australasia (1991) and a Founding Fellow of the Faculty of Science, Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (2010).
Research Interest
organ transplantation,cytogenetics and molecular genetics
Publications
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Godler DE, Slater HR, Bui QM, Storey E, Ono MY, Gehling F, Inaba Y, Francis D, Hopper JL, Kinsella G, Amor DJ. Fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) intron 1 methylation in blood predicts verbal cognitive impairment in female carriers of expanded FMR1 alleles: evidence from a pilot study. Clinical chemistry. 2012 Mar 1;58(3):590-8.
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Godler DE, Inaba Y, Shi EZ, Skinner C, Bui QM, Francis D, Amor DJ, Hopper JL, Loesch DZ, Hagerman RJ, Schwartz CE. Relationships between age and epi-genotype of the FMR1 exon 1/intron 1 boundary are consistent with non-random X-chromosome inactivation in FM individuals, with the selection for the unmethylated state being most significant between birth and puberty. Human molecular genetics. 2013 Jan 10;22(8):1516-24.
