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Since 1992, he has been an adjunct Professor in the Departments of Pathology (1993), Zoology (1996), and Psychology (2003) at the University of Queensland, and Senior Principal Research Fellow at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute. [citation needed] Together with J.D. Mathews, he established in 1978 the Australian Twin Registry.
A. ANU Research School of Physics; Appleton Institute; ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society; ARC Training Centre for Automated Manufacture of Advanced Composites
Twin Research and Human Genetics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published bimonthly by the Cambridge University Press. It is the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies (ISTS) and the Human Genetics Society of Australasia .
The power of twin designs arises from the fact that twins may be either identical (monozygotic (MZ), i.e. developing from a single fertilized egg and therefore sharing all of their polymorphic alleles) or fraternal (dizygotic (DZ), i.e. developing from two fertilized eggs and therefore sharing on average 50% of their alleles, the same level of genetic similarity found in non-twin siblings).
The facility was partially supported by a A$ 1.13 million grant awarded in 2004 by the Australian Cancer Research Foundation. [5] Major action star Jackie Chan made donations to the School, with the Director in 2006 announcing the Jackie Chan Science Centre was named in his honour; [6] and was opened by Chan in 2008. [7]
Twin registries use a number of strategies to try to reduce the risk of recruitment bias. Some twin registries are "mandatory" - that is, for example, under the public health laws of Norway, all births of twins since 1967 have been recorded in a twin registry maintained by the Norwegian government. [4]
This campus is also home to the Brains Research Institute at Monash Sunway (BRIMS) and the Southeast Community Observatory (SEACO). At Monash South Africa, the School of Health Sciences teaches undergraduate programs in public health and social science. It is one of the only institutions in Africa to offer a degree in public health.
He is a specialist in twin studies, genetics, epigenetics, and microbiome and diet. [9] [10] He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to the Covid-19 response. [11] He was also appointed Senior Investigator at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). [12]