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Role Deputy Dir & Head Office of Research
Research area Genomic Medicine
Professor Andrew Sinclair is Deputy Director of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and a Professor in Translational Genomics in the Dept. of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne.

He led a National Health & Medical Research Council Program focusing on the molecular genetics of gonad development and its impact on patients with differences of sex development (DSD). In this capacity he has forged formal linkages with both national and international clinicians, discovered new genes, developed a rapid genomic sequencing panel assay (now in clinical use) that has dramatically improved rates of diagnosis. Recently, he has differentiated human iPS (stem cells) into testis cell lineages for functional analysis of DSD patient variants.

As a Board Director of the Victorian Clinical Genetics Service he has had oversight for implementing a range of genomics applications into clinical service provision, in particular, clinically accredited exomes and whole genomes. He is one of the leaders of the Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance and a lead architect of the Australian Genomics Health Alliance both of which aim to implement genomics into the healthcare system to improve patient outcomes. He has received numerous national and international awards and in 2015 was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
Professor Andrew Sinclair is Deputy Director of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and a Professor in Translational Genomics in the Dept. of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne.

He led a National Health & Medical Research Council...
Professor Andrew Sinclair is Deputy Director of the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and a Professor in Translational Genomics in the Dept. of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne.

He led a National Health & Medical Research Council Program focusing on the molecular genetics of gonad development and its impact on patients with differences of sex development (DSD). In this capacity he has forged formal linkages with both national and international clinicians, discovered new genes, developed a rapid genomic sequencing panel assay (now in clinical use) that has dramatically improved rates of diagnosis. Recently, he has differentiated human iPS (stem cells) into testis cell lineages for functional analysis of DSD patient variants.

As a Board Director of the Victorian Clinical Genetics Service he has had oversight for implementing a range of genomics applications into clinical service provision, in particular, clinically accredited exomes and whole genomes. He is one of the leaders of the Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance and a lead architect of the Australian Genomics Health Alliance both of which aim to implement genomics into the healthcare system to improve patient outcomes. He has received numerous national and international awards and in 2015 was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

Top Publications

  • Beverdam, A, Svingen, T, Bagheri-Fam, S, McClive, P, Sinclair, AH, Harley, VR, Koopman, P. Protein tyrosine kinase 2 beta (PTK2B), but not focal adhesion kinase (FAK), is expressed in a sexually dimorphic pattern in developing mouse gonads.. Dev Dyn 239(10) : 2735 -2741 2010
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  • Smith, CA, Rosezler, KN, Ohnesorg, T, Cummins, D, Farlie, PG, Doran, T, Sinclair, A. The conserved Z-linked gene, DMRT1, is required for testicular morphogenesis in the chicken embryo. Developmental Biology 344(1) : 485 -486 2010
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  • Western, PS, van den Bergen, JA, Miles, DC, Sinclair, AH. Male fetal germ cell differentiation involves complex repression of the regulatory network controlling pluripotency.. FASEB J 24(8) : 3026 -3035 2010
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  • Bagheri-Fam, S, Sinclair, AH, Koopman, P, Harley, VR. Conserved regulatory modules in the Sox9 testis-specific enhancer predict roles for SOX, TCF/LEF, Forkhead, DMRT, and GATA proteins in vertebrate sex determination.. Int J Biochem Cell Biol 42(3) : 472 -477 2010
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  • Miles, DC, van den Bergen, JA, Sinclair, AH, Western, PS. Regulation of the female mouse germ cell cycle during entry into meiosis.. Cell Cycle 9(2) : 408 -418 2010
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