CEB PhD Completion Seminar - Exploration of sex differences in genetic susceptibility to glioma

Karen Alpen BFinAdmin BMedSci(Hons) MEpi

Supervisors:  Assoc. Prof. Enes Makalic, Assoc. Prof. Rob MacInnis, Dr. Miroslaw Kapuscinski, Prof. Claire Vajdic (Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales)

Glioma is a malignant brain cancer with one of the poorest survival rates among cancers.  Men are at least forty percent more likely to develop glioma than women and there are few known environmental or behavioural risk factors. Known genetic risk variants account for a small proportion of glioma heritability.  Using genome-wide association analyses (GWAS), this thesis explores whether sex differences in genetic susceptibility may explain part of this missing heritability.

Location: Seminar Rooms302/303, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton or via zoom; https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/89481501705?pwd=dWpQOTJuLzdkRFhVOXdaMVhLbFNOUT09&from=addon (Password 383129)