Professor Melissa Brown
Executive Dean, Faculty of Science
The University of Queensland
+61 7 3365 1609
Melissa completed her PhD at The University of Melbourne in 1993, on blood cell growth factors and their role in human leukaemia. She then undertook postdoctoral training at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and King’s College in London, where she was involved in characterizing the first breast cancer susceptibility gene. She returned to Australia in 1999, first to The University of Melbourne and subsequently to UQ where she has been since, with the exception of a 6 month sabbatical at The University of Oxford in 2005. During her career, Melissa has taught molecular genetics to thousands of students, has published over 90 research papers and reviews in the field of cancer genetics and has attracted more than $20M in research funding. In a number of academic leadership roles, including Head of School, Deputy or Acting Director of various Research centres, and Deputy Executive Dean and Associate Dean (Research), Melissa has also introduced multiple processes and schemes to enable research higher degree students and early career researchers to reach their potential, and to bring new teams of high calibre researchers together to address important questions in science and medicine, and has actively supported the career development of many UQ students and staff.
PhD and MPhil Supervision
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Find out more information on how to apply for a Research Higher Degree (MPhil or PhD) with the School. For all enquiries regarding research supervision, please contact ask@uq.edu.au.
Book Chapter
Sandhu, Gurveen K., Milevskiy, Michael J.G., Wilson, Wesley, Shewan, Annette M. and Brown, Melissa A. (2016). Non-coding RNAs in mammary gland development and disease. Non-coding RNA and the Reproductive System. (pp. 121-153) edited by Wilhelm, D and Bernard, P. New York, United States: Springer . doi: 10.1007/978-94-017-7417-8_7
Journal Articles
Li, Zhixiu, Khan, Mohammad Kazim, van der Linden, Sjef M., Winkens, Bjorn, Villiger, Peter M., Baumberger, Heinz, van Zandwijk, Hermine, Khan, Muhammad Asim and Brown, Matthew A. (2023). HLA-B27, axial spondyloarthritis and survival. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 82 (12), 1558-1567. doi: 10.1136/ard-2023-224434
Ridley, Lauren K., Hwang, Mark C., Reveille, John D., Gensler, Lianne S., Ishimori, Mariko L., Brown, Matthew A., Rahbar, Mohammad H., Tahanan, Amirali, Ward, Michael M., Weisman, Michael H. and Learch, Thomas J. (2023). Why Do Some Patients Have Severe Sacroiliac Disease But No Syndesmophytes in Ankylosing Spondylitis ? Data From a Nested Case-Control Study. Journal of Rheumatology, 50 (3), 335-341. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.211230
Degasperi, Andrea, Zou, Xueqing, Amarante, Tauanne Dias, Martinez-Martinez, Andrea, Koh, Gene Ching Chiek, Dias, Joao M. L., Heskin, Laura, Chmelova, Lucia, Rinaldi, Giuseppe, Wang, Valerie Ya Wen, Nanda, Arjun S., Bernstein, Aaron, Momen, Sophie E., Young, Jamie, Perez-Gil, Daniel, Memari, Yasin, Badja, Cherif, Shooter, Scott, Czarnecki, Jan, Brown, Matthew A., Davies, Helen R. and Nik-Zainal, Serena (2022). Substitution mutational signatures in whole-genome-sequenced cancers in the UK population. Science, 376 (6591) eabl9283, 1-17. doi: 10.1126/science.abl9283
Johnson, Nichola, Maguire, Sarah, Morra, Anna, Kapoor, Pooja Middha, Tomczyk, Katarzyna, Jones, Michael E., Schoemaker, Minouk J., Gilham, Clare, Bolla, Manjeet K., Wang, Qin, Dennis, Joe, Ahearn, Thomas U., Andrulis, Irene L., Anton-Culver, Hoda, Antonenkova, Natalia N., Arndt, Volker, Aronson, Kristan J., Augustinsson, Annelie, Baynes, Caroline, Freeman, Laura E. Beane, Beckmann, Matthias W., Benitez, Javier, Bermisheva, Marina, Blomqvist, Carl, Boeckx, Bram, Bogdanova, Natalia V., Bojesen, Stig E., Brauch, Hiltrud, Brenner, Hermann ... Fletcher, Olivia (2021). CYP3A7*1C allele: linking premenopausal oestrone and progesterone levels with risk of hormone receptor-positive breast cancers. British Journal of Cancer, 124 (4), 842-854. doi: 10.1038/s41416-020-01185-w
Fachal, Laura, Aschard, Hugues, Beesley, Jonathan, Barnes, Daniel R., Allen, Jamie, Kar, Siddhartha, Pooley, Karen A., Dennis, Joe, Michailidou, Kyriaki, Turman, Constance, Soucy, Penny, Lemaçon, Audrey, Lush, Michael, Tyrer, Jonathan P., Ghoussaini, Maya, Marjaneh, Mahdi Moradi, Jiang, Xia, Agata, Simona, Aittomäki, Kristiina, Alonso, M. Rosario, Andrulis, Irene L., Anton-Culver, Hoda, Antonenkova, Natalia N., Arason, Adalgeir, Arndt, Volker, Aronson, Kristan J., Arun, Banu K., Auber, Bernd, Auer, Paul L. ... Dunning, Alison M. (2020). Fine-mapping of 150 breast cancer risk regions identifies 191 likely target genes. Nature Genetics, 52 (1), 56-73. doi: 10.1038/s41588-019-0537-1
Tudini, Emma, Burke, Lez J., Whiley, Phillip J., Sevcik, Jan, Spurdle, Amanda B. and Brown, Melissa A. (2019). Caution: plasmid DNA topology affects luciferase assay reproducibility and outcomes. BioTechniques, 67 (3), 94-96. doi: 10.2144/btn-2019-0060
Spurdle, Amanda B., Greville-Heygate, Stephanie, Antoniou, Antonis C., Brown, Melissa, Burke, Leslie, De La Hoya, Miguel, Domchek, Susan, Dörk, Thilo, Firth, Helen V., Monteiro, Alvaro N., Mensenkamp, Arjen, Parsons, Michael T., Radice, Paolo, Robson, Mark, Tischkowitz, Marc, Tudini, Emma, Turnbull, Clare, Vreeswijk, Maaike P.G., Walker, Logan C., Tavtigian, Sean and Eccles, Diana M. (2019). Towards controlled terminology for reporting germline cancer susceptibility variants: An ENIGMA report. Journal of Medical Genetics, 56 (6), 347-357. doi: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2018-105872
Milevskiy, Michael J. G., Gujral, Udai, Del Lama Marques, Carolina, Stone, Andrew, Northwood, Korinne, Burke, Lez J., Gee, Julia M. W., Nephew, Kenneth, Clark, Susan and Brown, Melissa A. (2019). MicroRNA-196a is regulated by ER and is a prognostic biomarker in ER+ breast cancer. British Journal of Cancer, 120 (6), 621-632. doi: 10.1038/s41416-019-0395-8
Joo, Jihoon E., Dowty, James G., Milne, Roger L., Wong, Ee Ming, Dugué, Pierre-Antoine, English, Dallas, Hopper, John L., Goldgar, David E., Giles, Graham G., Southey, Melissa C., kConFab, Sexton, Adrienne, Christian, Alice, Trainer, Alison, Spigelman, Allan, Fellows, Andrew, Shelling, Andrew, De Fazio, Anna, Blackburn, Anneke, Crook, Ashley, Meiser, Bettina, Patterson, Briony, Clarke, Christine, Saunders, Christobel, Hunt, Clare, Scott, Clare, Amor, David, Marsh, Deborah, Edkins, Edward ... Antill, Yoland (2018). Heritable DNA methylation marks associated with susceptibility to breast cancer. Nature Communications, 9 (1) 867. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-03058-6
dos Santos, Elizabeth Santana, Lallemand, François, Burke, Leslie, Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique, Brown, Melissa, Caputo, Sandrine M. and Rouleau, Etienne (2018). Non-coding variants in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes: potential impact on breast and ovarian cancer predisposition. Cancers, 10 (11) 453, 453. doi: 10.3390/cancers10110453
Milevskiy, Michael J. G., Sandhu, Gurveen K., Wronski, Anna, Korbie, Darren, Brewster, Brooke L., Shewan, Annette, Edwards, Stacey L., French, Juliet D. and Brown, Melissa A. (2018). MiR-29b-1-5p is altered in BRCA1 mutant tumours and is a biomarker in basal-like breast cancer. Oncotarget, 9 (71), 33577-33588. doi: 10.18632/oncotarget.26094
Burke, Leslie J., Sevcik, Jan, Gambino, Gaetana, Tudini, Emma, Mucaki, Eliseos J., Shirley, Ben C., Whiley, Phillip, Parsons, Michael T., De Leeneer, Kim, Gutiérrez-Enríquez, Sara, Santamariña, Marta, Caputo, Sandrine M., Santana dos Santos, Elizabeth, Soukupova, Jana, Janatova, Marketa, Zemankova, Petra, Lhotova, Klara, Stolarova, Lenka, Borecka, Mariana, Moles-Fernández, Alejandro, Manoukian, Siranoush, Bonanni, Bernardo, Edwards, Stacey L., Blok, Marinus J., van Overeem Hansen, Thomas, Rossing, Maria, Diez, Orland, Vega, Ana, Claes, Kathleen B.M. ... ENIGMA Consortium (2018). BRCA1 and BRCA2 5′ noncoding region variants identified in breast cancer patients alter promoter activity and protein binding. Human Mutation, 39 (12), 2025-2039. doi: 10.1002/humu.23652
Betts, Joshua A., Moradi Marjaneh, Mahdi, Al-Ejeh, Fares, Lim, Yi Chieh, Shi, Wei, Sivakumaran, Haran, Tropee, Romain, Patch, Ann.-Marie, Clark, Michael B., Bartonicek, Nenad, Wiegmans, Adrian P., Hillman, Kristine M., Kaufmann, Susanne, Bain, Amanda L., Gloss, Brian S., Crawford, Joanna, Kazakoff, Stephen, Wani, Shivangi, Wen Shu W., Day, Bryan, Moller, Andreas, Cloonan, Nicole, Pearson,John, Brown, Melissa A., Mercer, Timothy R., Waddell, Nicola, Khanna, Kum Kum, Dray, Eloise, Dinger, Marcel E. ... French, Juliet D. (2017). Long noncoding RNAs CUPID1 and CUPID2 mediate breast cancer risk at 11q13 by modulating the response to DNA damage. American Journal of Human Genetics, 101 (2), 255-266. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2017.07.007
Milevskiy, Michael J. G., Al-Ejeh, Fares, Saunus, Jodi M., Northwood, Korinne S., Bailey, Peter J., Betts, Joshua A., McCart Reed, Amy E., Nephew, Kenneth P., Stone, Andrew, Gee, Julia M. W., Dowhan, Dennis H., Dray, Eloise, Shewan, Annette M., French, Juliet D., Edwards, Stacey L., Clark, Susan J., Lakhani, Sunil R. and Brown, Melissa A. (2016). Long-range regulators of the lncRNA HOTAIR enhance its prognostic potential in breast cancer. Human Molecular Genetics, 25 (15), 3269-3283. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddw177
Peters, Amelia A., Milevskiy, Michael J. G., Lee, WeiC., Curry, Merril C., Smart, Chanel E., Saunus, Jodi M., Reid, Lynne, da Silva, Leonard, Marcial, Daneth L., Dray, Eloise, Brown, Melissa A., Lakhani, Sunil R., Roberts-Thomson, Sarah J. and Monteith, Gregory R. (2016). The calcium pump plasma membrane Ca(2+)-ATPase 2 (PMCA2) regulates breast cancer cell proliferation and sensitivity to doxorubicin. Scientific Reports, 6 (1) 25505, 25505. doi: 10.1038/srep25505
Wronski, A., Sandhu, G. K., Milevskiy, M. J., Brewster, B. L., Bridge, J. A., Shewan, A. M., Edwards, S. L., French, J. D. and Brown, M. A. (2016). MicroRNA-206 is differentially expressed in Brca1-deficient mice and regulates epithelial and stromal cell compartments of the mouse mammary gland. Oncogenesis, 5 (4) e218, e218.1-e218.9. doi: 10.1038/oncsis.2016.27
Pera, Elena, Kaemmerer, Elke, Milevskiy, Michael J. G., Yapa, Kunsala T. D. S., O'Donnell, Jake S., Brown, Melissa A., Simpson, Fiona, Peters, Amelia A., Roberts-Thomson, Sarah J. and Monteith, Gregory R. (2016). The voltage gated Ca2+-channel Cav3.2 and therapeutic responses in breast cancer. Cancer Cell International, 16 (24) 24, 24. doi: 10.1186/s12935-016-0299-0
Gannon, Orla M., Antonsson, Annika, Milevskiy, Michael, Brown, Melissa A., Saunders, Nicholas A. and Bennett, Ian C. (2015). No association between HPV positive breast cancer and expression of human papilloma viral transcripts. Scientific Reports, 5 (18081) 18081, 18081. doi: 10.1038/srep18081
Stirzaker, Clare, Zotenko, Elena, Song, Jenny Z., Qu, Wenja, Nair, Shalima, Locke, Warwick J., Stone, Andrew Stone, Armstrong, Nicola J., Robinson, Mark D., Dobrovic, Alexander, Avery-Kiejda, Kelly A., Peters, Kate M., French, Juliet D., Stein, Sandra, Korbie, Darren J., Trau, Matt, Forbes, John F., Scott, Rodney J., Brown, Melissa A., Francis, Glenn D. and Clark, Susan J. (2015). Methylome sequencing in triple negative breast cancer reveals distinct methylation clusters with prognostic value. Nature Communications, 6 (5899) 5899, 1-11. doi: 10.1038/ncomms6899
Glubb, Dylan, Maranian, Mel J., Michailidou, Kyriaki, Pooley, Karen A., Meyer, Kerstin, Kar, Siddhartha, Carlebur, Saskia, O'Reilly, Martin, Betts, Joshua A., Hillman, Kristine M., Kaufmann, Susanne, Beesley, Jonathan, Canisius, Sander, Hopper, John L., Southey, Melissa C., Tsimiklis, Helen, Apicella, Carmel, Schmidt, Marjanka K., Broeks, Annegien, Hogervorst, Frans B., van der Schoot, C. Ellen, Muir, Kenneth, Lophatananon, Artitaya, Stewart-Brown, Sarah, Siriwanarangsan, Pornthep, Fasching, Peter, Ruebner, Matthias, Ekici, Arif B., Beckmann, Matthias W. ... French, Juliet D. (2015). Fine-scale mapping of the 5q11.2 breast cancer locus reveals at least three independent risk variants regulating MAP3K1. American Journal of Human Genetics, 96 (1), 5-20. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.11.009
Ghoussaini, Maya, Edwards, Stacey L., Michailidou, Kyriaki, Nord, Silje, Lari, Richard Cowper-Sal, Desai, Kinjal, Kar, Siddhartha, Hillman, Kristine M., Kaufmann, Susanne, Glubb, Dylan M., Beesley, Jonathan, Dennis, Joe, Bolla, Manjeet K., Wang, Qin, Dicks, Ed, Guo, Qi, Schmidt, Marjanka K., Shah, Mitul, Luben, Robert, Brown, Judith, Czene, Kamila, Darabi, Hatef, Eriksson, Mikael, Klevebring, Daniel, Bojesen, Stig E., Nordestgaard, Borge G., Nielsen, Sune F., Flyger, Henrik, Lambrechts, Diether ... Dunning, Alison M. (2014). Evidence that breast cancer risk at the 2q35 locus is mediated through IGFBP5 regulation. Nature Communications, 5 (1) 4999, 4999.1-4999.12. doi: 10.1038/ncomms5999
Colombo, Mara, Blok, Marinus J., Whiley, Phillip, Santamarina, Marta, Gutierrez-Enriquez, Sara, Romero, Atocha, Garre, Pilar, Becker, Alexandra, Smith, Lindsay Denise, Vecchi, Giovanna De, Brandao, Rita D., Tserpelis, Demis, Brown, Melissa, Blanco, Ana, Bonache, Sandra, Menendez, Mireia, Houdayer, Claude, Foglia, Claudia, Fackenthal, James D., Baralle, Diana, Wappenschmidt, Barbara, Diaz-Rubio, Eduardo, Caldes, Trinidad, Walker, Logan, Diez, Orland, Vega, Ana, Spurdle, Amanda B., Radice, Paolo and de la Hoya, Miguel (2014). Comprehensive annotation of splice junctions supports pervasive alternative splicing at the BRCA1 locus: a report from the ENIGMA consortium. Human Molecular Genetics, 23 (14) ddu075, 3666-3680. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddu075
Whiley, Phillip J., De La Hoya, Miguel, Thomassen, Mads, Becker, Alexandra, Brandão, Rita, Sokilde Pedersen, Inge, Montagna, Marco, Menéndez, Mireia, Quiles, Francisco, Gutiérrez-Enríquez, Sara, De Leeneer, Kim, Tenés, Anna, Montalban, Gemma, Tserpelis, Demis, Yoshimatsu, Toshio, Tirapo, Carole, Raponi, Michela, Caldes, Trinidad, Blanco, Ana, Santamariña, Marta, Guidugli, Lucia, Ruiz de Garibay, Gorka, Wong, Ming, Tancredi, Mariella, Fachal, Laura, Chun Ding, Yuan, Kruse, Torben, Lattimore, Vanessa, Kwong, Ava ... Brown, Melissa A. (2014). Comparison of mRNA splicing assay protocols across multiple laboratories: recommendations for best practice in standardized clinical testing. Clinical Chemistry, 60 (2), 341-352. doi: 10.1373/clinchem.2013.210658
Whiley, Phillip J., Parsons, Michael T., Leary, Jennifer, Tucker, Kathy, Warwick, Linda, Dopita, Belinda, Thorne, Heather, Lakhani, Sunil R., Goldgar, David E., Brown, Melissa A. and Spurdle, Amanda B. (2014). Multifactorial likelihood assessment of BRCA1 and BRCA2 missense variants confirms that BRCA1:c.122A>G(p.His41Arg) is a pathogenic mutation. PloS One, 9 (1) e86836, 1-10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0086836
French, Juliet D., Ghoussaini, Maya, Edwards, Stacey L., Meyer, Kerstin B., Michailidou, Kyriaki, Ahmed, Shahana, Khan, Sofia, Maranian, Mel J., O'Reilly, Martin, Hillman, Kristine M., Betts, Joshua A., Carro, Thomas, Bailey, Peter J., Dicks, Ed, Beesley, Jonathan, Tyrer, Jonathan, Maia, Ana-Teresa, Beck, Andrew, Knoblauch, Nicholas W., Chen, Constance, Kraft, Peter, Barnes, Daniel, Gonzalez-Neira, Anna, Rosario Alonso, M., Herrero, Daniel, Tessier, Daniel C., Vincent, Daniel, Bacot, Francois, Luccarini, Craig ... Dunning, Alison M. (2013). Functional variants at the 11q13 risk locus for breast cancer regulate cyclin D1 expression through long-range enhancers. American Journal of Human Genetics, 92 (4), 489-503. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.01.002
Parsons, Michael T., Whiley, Phillip J., Beesley, Jonathan, Drost, Mark, de Wind, Neils, Thompson, Bryony A., Marquart, Lousie, Hopper, John L., Jenkins, Mark A., Brown, Melissa A., Tucker, Kathy, Warwick, Linda, Buchanan, Daniel D., Spurdle, Amanda B. and Australasian Colorectal Cancer Family Registry (2013). Consequences of germline variation disrupting the constitutional translational initiation codon start sites of MLH1 and BRCA2: Use of potential alternative start sites and implications for predicting variant pathogenicity. Molecular Carcinogenesis, 54 (7), 513-522. doi: 10.1002/mc.22116
Wee, Eugene J. H., Shiddiky, Muhammad J. A., Brown, Melissa A. and Trau, Matt (2012). eLCR: electrochemical detection of single DNA base changes via ligase chain reaction. Chemical Communications, 48 (98), 1214-1216. doi: 10.1039/C2CC35841G
Betts, Joshua A., French, Juliet D., Brown, Melissa A. and Edwards, Stacey L. (2012). Long-range transcriptional regulation of breast cancer genes. Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer, 52 (2), 113-125. doi: 10.1002/gcc.22020
Waddell, N., Stein, S. R., Wagner, S. A., Bennett, I., Djougarian, A., Melana, S., Jaffer, S., Holland, J. F., Pogo, B. G. T., Gonda, T. J., Brown, M. A., Leo, P., Saunders, N. A., McMillan, N. A., Cocciardi, S., Vargas, A. C., Lakhani, S. R., Chenevix-Trench, G., Newman, B. and Francis, G. D. (2012). Morphological and molecular analysis of a breast cancer cluster at the ABC Studio in Toowong. Pathology, 44 (5), 469-472. doi: 10.1097/PAT.0b013e3283559e67
Spurdle, Amanda B., Whiley, Phillip J., Thompson, Bryony, Feng, Bingjian, Healey, Sue, Brown, Melissa A., Pettigrew, Christopher, kConFab, Van Asperen, Christi J., Ausems, Margreet G. E. M., Kattentidt-Mouravieva, Anna A., Pigg, Maritta H., Schmutzler, Rita K., Engel, Christoph, Meindl, Alfons, German Consortium of Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer, Caputo, Sandrine, Sinilnikova, Olga M., Lidereau, Rosette, French COVAR group collaborators, Couch, Fergus J., Guidugli, Lucia, van Overeem Hansen, Thomas, Thomassen, Mads, Eccles, Diana M., Tucker, Kathy, Benitez, Javier, Domchek, Susan M., Toland, Amanda E. ... ENIGMA Consortium (2012). BRCA1 R1699Q variant displaying ambiguous functional abrogation confers intermediate breast and ovarian cancer risk. Journal of Medical Genetics, 49 (8), 525-532. doi: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2012-101037
Dowhan, Dennis H., Harrison, Matthew J., Eriksson, Natalie A., Bailey, Peter, Pearen, Michael A, Fuller, Peter J., Funder, John W., Simpson, Evan R., Leedman, Peter J., Tilley, Wayne D., Brown, Melissa A., Clarke, Christine L. and Muscat, George E. O. (2012). Protein arginine methyltransferase 6-dependent gene expression and splicing: Association with breast cancer outcomes. Endocrine-Related Cancer, 19 (4), 509-526. doi: 10.1530/ERC-12-0100
Brewster, Brooke L., Rossiello, Francesca, French, Juliet D., Edwards, Stacey L., Wong, Ming, Wronski, Ania, Whiley, Phillip, Waddell, Nic, Chen, Xiaowei, Bove, Betsy, kConFab, Hopper, John L., John, Esther M., Andrulis, Irene, Daly, Mary, Volorio, Sara, Bernard, Loris, Peissel, Bernard, Manoukian, Siranoush, Barile, Monica, Pizzamiglio, Sara, Verderio, Paolo, Spurdle, Amanda B., Radice, Paolo, Godwin, Andrew K., Southey, Melissa C., Brown, Melissa A. and Peterlongo, Paolo (2012). Identification of fifteen novel germline variants in the BRCA1 3′UTR reveals a variant in a breast cancer case that introduces a functional miR-103 target site. Human Mutation, 33 (12), 1665-1675. doi: 10.1002/humu.22159
Smart, Chanel E., Askarian Amiri, Marjan E., Wronski, Ania, Dinger, Marcel E., Crawford, Joanna, Ovchinnikov, Dmitry A., Vargas, Ana Cristina, Reid, Lynne, Simpson, Peter T., Song, Sarah, Wiesner, Christiane, French, Juliet D., Dave, Richa K., da Silva, Leonard, Purdon, Amy, Andrew, Megan, Mattick, John S., Lakhani, Sunil R., Brown, Melissa A. and Kellie, Stuart (2012). Expression and function of the protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor J (PTPRJ) in normal mammary epithelial cells and breast tumors. PLoS One, 7 (7) e40742, e40742.1-e40742.13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0040742
Peters, Kate M., Edwards, Stacey L., Nair, Shalima S., French, Juliet D., Bailey, Peter J., Salkield, Kathryn, Stein, Sandra, Wagner, Sarah, Francis, Glenn D., Clark, Susan J. and Brown, Melissa A. (2012). Androgen receptor expression predicts breast cancer survival: The role of genetic and epigenetic events. BMC Cancer, 12 (132) 132, 1-10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2407-12-132
Wee, E.J.H., Peters, K., Nair, S.S., Hulf, T., Stein, S., Wagner, S., Bailey, P., Lee, S.Y., Qu, W.J., Brewster, B., French, J.D., Dobrovic, A., Francis, G.D., Clark, S.J. and Brown, M.A. (2012). Mapping the regulatory sequences controlling 93 breast cancer-associated miRNA genes leads to the identification of two functional promoters of the Hsa-mir-200b cluster, methylation of which is associated with metastasis or hormone receptor status in adva. Oncogene, 31 (38), 4182-4195. doi: 10.1038/onc.2011.584
Millot, Gael A., Carvalho, Marcelo A., Caputo, Sandrine M., Vreeswijk, Maaike P. G., Brown, Melissa A., Webb, Michelle, Rouleau, Etienne, Hansen, Thomas v. O., Galli, Alvaro, Brand˜ao, Rita D., Blok, Marinus J., Velkova, Aneliya, Couch, Fergus J., Monteiro, Alvaro N. A. and ENIGMA (2012). A guide for functional analysis of BRCA1 variants of uncertain significance. Human Mutation, 33 (11), 1526-1537. doi: 10.1002/humu.22150
Jiang, Juhong, Yang, Eddy S., Jiang, Guochun, Nowsheen, Somaira, Wang, Hong, Wang, Tong, Wang, Yihan, Billheimer, Dean, Chakravarthy, A. Bapsi, Brown, Melissa, Haffty, Bruce and Xia, Fen (2011). p53-Dependent BRCA1 nuclear export controls cellular susceptibility to DNA damage. Cancer Research, 71 (16), 5546-5557. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-10-3423
Whiley, Phillip J., Guidugli, Lucia, Walker, Logan C., Healey, Sue, Thompson, Bryony A., Lakhani, Sunil R., Da Silva, Leonard M., kConFab Investigators, Tavtigian, Sean V., Goldgar, David E., Brown, Melissa A., Couch, Fergus J. and Spurdle, Amanda B. (2011). Splicing and multifactorial analysis of intronic BRCA1 and BRCA2 sequence variants identifies clinically significant splicing aberrations up to 12 nucleotides from the intron/exon boundary. Human Mutation, 32 (6), 678-687. doi: 10.1002/humu.21495
Askarian-Amiri, Marjan E., Crawford, Joanna, French, Juliet D., Smart, Chanel E., Smith, Martin A., Clark, Michael B., Ru, Kelin, Mercer, Tim R., Thompson, Ella R., Lakhani, Sunil R., Vargas, Ana C., Campbell, Ian G., Brown, Melissa A., Dinger, Marcel E. and Mattick, John S. (2011). SNORD-host RNA Zfas1 is a regulator of mammary development and a potential marker for breast cancer. RNA, 17 (5), 878-891. doi: 10.1261/rna.2528811
Smart, C.E., Wronski, A., French, J.D., Edwards, S.L., Asselin-Labat, M.L., Waddell, N., Peters, K., Brewster, B.L., Brooks, K., Simpson, K., Manning, N., Lakhani, S.R., Grimmond, S., Lindeman, G.J., Visvader, J.E. and Brown, M.A. (2011). Analysis of brca1-deficient mouse mammary glands reveals reciprocal regulation of Brca1 and c-kit. Oncogene, 30 (13), 1597-1607. doi: 10.1038/onc.2010.538
McAndrew, Damara, Grice, Desma M., Peters, Amelia A., Davis, Felicity M., Stewart, Teneale, Rice, Michelle, Smart, Chanel E., Brown, Melissa A., Kenny, Paraic A., Roberts-Thomson, Sarah J. and Monteith, Gregory R. (2011). ORAI1-mediated calcium influx in lactation and in breast cancer. Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 10 (3), 448-460. doi: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-10-0923
Ramus, Susan J., Kartsonaki, Christiana, Gayther, Simon A., Pharoah, Paul D. P., Sinilnikova, Olga M., Beesley, Jonathan, Chen, Xiaoqing, McGuffog, Lesley, Healey, Sue, Couch, Fergus J., Wang, Xianshu, Fredericksen, Zachary, Peterlongo, Paolo, Manoukian, Siranoush, Peissel, Bernard, Zaffaroni, Daniela, Roversi, Gaia, Barile, Monica, Viel, Alessandra, Allavena, Anna, Ottini, Laura, Papi, Laura, Gismondi, Viviana, Capra, Fabio, Radice, Paolo, Greene, Mark H., Mai, Phuong L., Andrulis, Irene L., Glendon, Gord ... Lakhani, Sunil (2011). Genetic variation at 9p22.2 and ovarian cancer risk for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. Journal of the National Cancer Institiute, 103 (2), 105-116. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djq494
Wong, Ee Ming, Southey, Melissa C., Fox, Stephen B., Brown, Melissa A., Dowty, James G., Jenkins, Mark A., Giles, Graham G., Hopper, John L. and Dobrovic, Alexander (2011). Constitutional methylation of the BRCA1 promoter Is specifically associated with BRCA1 mutation-associated pathology in early-onset breast cancer. Cancer Prevention Research, 4 (1), 23-33. doi: 10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-10-0212
Antoniou, Antonis C., Wang, Xianshu, Fredericksen, Zachary S., McGuffog, Lesley, Tarrell, Robert, Sinilnikova, Olga M., Healey, Sue, Morrison, Jonathan, Kartsonaki,Christiana, Lesnick, Timothy, Ghoussaini, Maya, Barrowdale, Daniel, Peock, Susan, Cook, Margaret, Oliver, Clare, Frost, Debra, Eccles, Diana, Evans, D. Gareth, Eeles, Ros, Izatt, Louise, Chu, Carol, Douglas, Fiona, Paterson, Joan, Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique, Houdayer, Claude, Mazoyer, Sylvie, Giraud, Sophie, Lasset, Christine, Remenieras, Audrey ... Lakhani, Sunil (2010). A locus on 19p13 modifies risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 mutation carriers and is associated with hormone receptor–negative breast cancer in the general population. Nature Genetics, 42 (10), 885-892. doi: 10.1038/ng.669
Mia M. Gaudet, Tomas Kirchhoff, Todd Green, Joseph Vijai, Joshua M. Korn, Candace Guiducci, Ayellet V. Segre, Kate McGee, Lesley McGuffog, Christiana Kartsonaki, Jonathan Morrison, Sue Healey, Olga M. Sinilnikova, Dominique Stoppa-Lyonnet, Sylvie Mazoyer, Marion Gauthier-Villars, Hagay Sobol, Michel Longy, Marc Frenay, GEMO Study Collaborators, Frans B. L. Hogervorst, Matti a. Rookus, J. Margriet Collee, Nicoline Hoogerbrugge, Kees E. P. van Roozendaal, HEBON Study Collaborators, Marion Piedmonte, Wendy Rubinstein, Stacy Nerenstone ... Lakhani, Sunil (2010). Common genetic variants and modification of penetrance of BRCA2-associated breast cancer. PLoS Genetics, 6 (10), e1001183-1-e1001183-12. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001183
Wang, Xianshu, Pankratz, V. Shane, Fredericksen, Zachary, Tarrell, Robert, Karaus, Mary, McGuffog, Lesley, Pharaoh, Paul D.P., Ponder, Bruce A.J., Dunning, Alison M., Peock, Susan, Cook, Margaret, Oliver, Clare, Frost, Debra, EMBRACE, Sinilnikova, Olga M., Stoppa-Lyonnet, Dominique, Mazoyer, Sylvie, Houdayer, Claude, GEMO, Hogervorst, Frans B.L., Hooning, Maartje J., Ligtenberg, Marjolijn J., HEBON, Spurdle, Amanda, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, kConFab, Schmutzler, Rita K., Wappenschmidt, Barbara, Engel, Christoph ... Lakhani, Sunil (2010). Common variants associated with breast cancer in genome-wide association studies are modifiers of breast cancer risk in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers. Human Molecular Genetics, 19 (14), 2886-2897. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddq174
Walker, Logan C., Whiley, Phillip J., Couch, Fergus J., Farrugia, Daniel J., Healey, Sue, Eccles, Diana M., Lin, Feng, Butler, Samantha A., Goff, Sheila A., Thompson, Bryony A., Lakhani, Sunil R., Da Silva, Leonard M., Tavtigian, Sean V., Goldgar, David E., Brown, Melissa A. and Spurdle, Amanda B. (2010). Detection of Splicing Aberrations Caused by BRCA1 and BRCA2 Sequence Variants Encoding Missense Substitutions: Implications for Prediction of Pathogenicity. Human Mutation, 31 (6), E1484-E1505. doi: 10.1002/humu.21267
Whiley, Phillip J., Pettigrew, Christopher A., Brewster, Brooke L., Walker, Logan C., Spurdle, Amanda B. and Brown, Melissa A. (2010). Effect of BRCA2 sequence variants predicted to disrupt exonic splice enhancers on BRCA2 transcripts. BMC Medical Genetics, 11 (1) 80, 80-1-80-5. doi: 10.1186/1471-2350-11-80
Flanagan, James M., Cocciardi, Sibylle, Waddell, Nic, Johnstone, Cameron N., Marsh, Anna, Henderson, Stephen, Simpson, Peter, da Silva, Leonard, kConFab Investigators, Khanna, Kumkum, Lakhani, Sunil, Boshoff, Chris, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Brown, Melissa, Cummings, Margaret and Edwards, Stacey (2010). DNA methylome of familial breast cancer identifies distinct profiles defined by mutation status. American Journal of Human Genetics, 86 (3), 420-433. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2010.02.008
Milne, Roger L., Gaudet, Mia M., Spurdle, Amanda B., Fasching, Peter A., Couch, Fergus J., Benitez, Javier, Arias Perez, Jose Ignacio, Zamora, M. Pilar, Malats, Nuria, dos Santos Silva, Isabel, Gibson, Lorna J., Fletcher, Olivia, Johnson, Nichola, Anton-Culver, Hoda, Ziogas, Argyrios, Figueroa, Jonine, Brinton, Louise, Sherman, Mark E., Lissowska, Jolanta, Hopper, John L., Dite, Gillian S., Apicella, Carmel, Southey, Melissa C., Sigurdson, Alice J., Linet, Martha S., Schonfeld, Sara J., Freedman, D. Michal, Mannermaa, Arto, Kosma, Veli-Matti ... Lakhani, Sunil (2010). Assessing interactions between the associations of common genetic susceptibility variants, reproductive history and body mass index with breast cancer risk in the breast cancer association consortium: a combined case-control study. Breast Cancer Research, 12 (6) R110, R110.1-R110.11. doi: 10.1186/bcr2797
Pettigrew, C. A., French, J. D., Saunus, J. M., Edwards, S. L., Sauer, A. V., Smart, C. E., Lundstrom, H. T., Wiesner, C., Spurdle, A. B., Rothnagel, J. A. and Brown, M. A. (2010). Identification and functional analysis of novel BRCA1 transcripts, including mouse Brca1-Iris and human pseudo-BRCA1. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 119 (1), 239-247. doi: 10.1007/s10549-008-0256-2
Arnold, Jeremy M., Choong, David Y. H., Thompson, Ella R., kConFab, Waddell, Nic, Lindeman, Geoffrey J., Visvader, Jane E., Campbell, Ian G., Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Brown, Melissa, Cummings, Margaret and Edwards, Stacey (2010). Frequent somatic mutations of GATA3 in non-BRCA1/BRCA2 familial breast tumors, but not in BRCA1-, BRCA2- or sporadic breast tumors. Breast Cancer Research And Treatment, 119 (2), 491-496. doi: 10.1007/s10549-008-0269-x
Phillipps, Karen S. M., Wykes, Michelle N., Liu, Xue Q., Brown, Melissa, Blanchfield, Joanne T. and Toth, Istvan (2009). A novel synthetic adjuvant enhances dendritic cell function. Immunology, 128 (1), e582-e588. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2567.2008.03038.x
Lim, Elgene, Vaillant, Francois, Wu, Di, Forrest, Natalie C., Pal, Bhupinder, Hart, Adam H., Asselin-Labat, Marie-Liesse, Gyorki, David E., Ward, Teresa, Partanen, Audrey, Feleppa, Frank, Huschtscha, Lily I., Thorne, Heather J., kConFab, Fox, Stephen B., Yan, Max, French, Juliet D., Brown, Melissa A., Smyth, Gordon K., Visvader, Jane E. and Lindemann, G. J. (2009). Aberrant luminal progenitors as the candidate target population for basal tumor development in BRCA1 mutation carriers. Nature Medicine, 15 (8), 907-913. doi: 10.1038/nm.2000
Arnold, Sven, Buchanan, Daniel D., Barker, Melissa, Jaskowski, Lesley, Walsh, Michael D., Birney, Genevieve, Woods, Michael O., Hopper, John L., Jenkins, Mark A., Brown, Melissa A., Tavtigian, Sean V., Goldgar, David E., Young, Joanne P. and Spurdle, Amanda B. (2009). Classifying MLH1 and MSH2 variants using bioinformatic prediction, splicing assays, segregation, and tumor characteristics. Human Mutation, 30 (5), 757-770. doi: 10.1002/humu.20936
Fung, Jackie Mei-Wah Fung, Smith, Ross, Brown, Melissa A., Lau, Sze Hang, Xie, Dan, Lau, George K. and Guan, Xin-Yuan (2009). Identification and characterization of a novel melanoma tumor suppressor gene on human chromosome 6q21. Clinical Cancer Research, 15 (3), 797-803. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-08-1472
Saunus, J., French, J.D., Edwards, S.L., Beveridge, D.J., Hatchell, E.C., Wagner, S.A., Stein, S.R., Davidson, A., Simpson, K.J., Francis, G.D., Leedman, P.J. and Brown, M.A. (2008). Posttranscriptional regulation of the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 by the RNA binding protein HuR. Cancer Research, 68 (22), 9469-9478. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-08-1159
Smart, Chanel E., Clarke, Catherine, Brooks, Kelly M., Raghavendra, Ashwini, Brewster, Brooke L., French, Juliet D., Hetherington, Rehan, Fleming, Jean S., Rothnagel, Joseph A., Wainwright, Brandon, Lakhani, Sunil R. and Brown, Melissa A. (2008). Targeted disruption of Brca1 in restricted compartments of the mouse mammary epithelia. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 112 (2), 237-241. doi: 10.1007/s10549-007-9859-2
Pettigrew, Christopher A., Wayte, Nicola, Wronski, Ania, Lovelock, Paul K., Spurdle, Amanda B. and Brown, Melissa A. (2008). Colocalisation of predicted exonic splicing enhancers in BRCA2 with reported sequence variants. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 110 (2), 227-234. doi: 10.1007/s10549-007-9714-5
Waddell, N, Ten Haaf, A, Marsh, A, Johnson, J, Walker, LC, Gongora, M, Brown, M, Grover, P, Girolami, M, Grimmond, S, Chenevix-Trench, G, Spurdle, AB and kConFab Investigators (2008). BRCA1 and BRCA2 missense variants of high and low clinical significance influence lymphoblastoid cell line post-irradiation gene expression. PLoS Genetics, 4 (5) e1000080, Article Number: e1000080. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000080
Faddy, Helen M., Smart, Chanel E., Xu, Ren, Lee, Genee Y., Kenny, Paraic A., Feng, Mingye, Rao, Rajini, Brown, Melissa A., Bissell, Mina J., Roberts-Thomson, Sarah J. and Monteith, Gregory R. (2008). Localization of plasma membrane and secretory calcium pumps in the mammary gland. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 369 (3), 977-981. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.03.003
Tan-Wong, Sue Mei, French, Juliet D., Proudfoot, Nicholas J. and Brown, Melissa A. (2008). Dynamic interactions between the promoter and terminator regions of the mammalian BRCA1 gene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 105 (13), 5160-5165. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801048105
French, J.D. and Brown, M.A. (2008). Breast cancer type 1 susceptibility protein. CurrentBioData
Pettigrew, C.A. and Brown, M.A. (2008). Pre-mRNA splicing aberrations and cancer. Frontiers In Bioscience, 13 (13), 1090-1105. doi: 10.2741/2747
Spurdle, A.B., Lakhani, S.R., Healey, S., Parry, S., Da Silva, L. M., Brinkworth, R.I., Hopper, J.L., Brown, M.A., Babikyan, D., Chenevix-Trench, G., Tavtigian, S.V. and Goldgar, D.E. (2008). Clinical classification of BRCA1 and BRCA2 DNA sequence variants: The value of cytokeratin profiles and evolutionary analysis - A report from the kConFab Investigators. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 26 (10), 1657-1663. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2007.13.2779
Lovelock, Paul K., Spurdle, Amanda B., Mok, Myth T. S., Farrugia, Daniel J., Lakhani, Sunil R., Healey, Sue, Arnold, Stephen, Buchanan, Daniel, kConFab Investigators, Couch, Fergus J., Henderson, Berik R., Goldgar, David E., Tavtigian, Sean V., Chenevix-Trench, Georgia and Brown, Melissa A (2007). Identification of BRCA1 missense substitutions that confer partial functional activity: potential moderate risk variants?. Breast Cancer Research, 9 (6: R82) R82, 1-13. doi: 10.1186/bcr1826
Lovelock, Paul K., Wong, Ee Ming, Sprung, Carl N., Marsh, Anna, Hobson, Karen, French, Juliet D., Southey, Melissa, kConFab Investigators, Sculley, Tom, Pandeya, Nirmala, Brown, Melissa A., Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Spurdle, Amanda B. and McKay, Michael J. (2007). Prediction of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation status using post-irradiation assays of lymphoblastoid cell lines is compromised by inter-cell-line phenotypic variability. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 104 (3), 257-266. doi: 10.1007/s10549-006-9415-5
Easton, Douglas F., Pooley, Karen A., Dunning, Alison M., Pharoah, Paul D. P., Thompson, Deborah, Ballinger, Dennis G., Struewing, Jeffery P., Morrison, Jonathan, Field, Helen, Luben, Robert, Wareham, Nicholas, Ahmed, Shahana, Healey, Catherine S., Bowman, Richard, SEARCH collaborators, Meyer, Kerstin B., Haiman, Christopher A., Kolonel, Laurence K., Henderson, Brian E., Marchand, Loic Le, Brennan, Paul, Sangrajrang, Suleeporn, Gaborieau, Valerie, Odefrey, Fabrice, Shen, Chen-Yang, Wu, Pei-Ei, Wang, Hui-Chun, Eccles Diana, Evans, D. Gareth ... Ward, Robyn (2007). Genome-wide association study identifies novel breast cancer susceptibility loci. Nature, 447 (7148), 1087-1093. doi: 10.1038/nature05887
Saunus, Jodi M., Edwards, Stacey L., French, Juliet D., Smart, Chanel E. and Brown, Melissa A. (2007). Regulation of BRCA1 messenger RNA stability in human epithelial cell lines and during cell cycle progression. FEBS Letters, 581 (18), 3435-3442. doi: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.06.046
Lovelock P. K., Healey, S., Au, W., Sum, E, Y. M., Tesoriero, A., Wong, E. M., Hinson, S., Brinkworth, R., Bekessy, A., Diez, O., Izatt, L., Solomon, E., Jenkins, M., Renard, H., Hopper, J., Waring, P., kConFab Investigators, Tavtigian, S. V., Goldgar, D., Lindeman, G J ., Visvader, J. E., Couch, F. J., Henderson, B. R., Southey, M., Chenevix-Trench, G., Spurdle, A. B. and Brown, M. A. (2006). Genetic, functional, and histopathological evaluation of two C-terminal BRCA1 missense variants. Journal of Medical Genetics, 43 (1), 74-83. doi: 10.1136/jmg.2005.033258
French, Juliet D., Dunn, Jasmyn, Smart, Chanel E., Manning, Nathan and Brown, Melissa A. (2006). Disruption of BRCA I function results in telomere lengthening and increased anaphase bridge formation in immortalized cell lines. Genes Chromosomes and Cancer, 45 (3), 277-289. doi: 10.1002/gcc.20290
Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Healey, Sue, Lakhani, Sunil, Waring, Paul, Cummings, Margaret, Brinkworth, Ross, Deffenbaugh, Amie M., Burbidge, Lynn Anne, Pruss, Dmitry, Judkins, Thad, Scholl, Tom, Bekessy, Anna, Marsh, Anna, Lovelock, Paul, Wong, Ming, Tesoriero, Andrea, Renard, Helene, Southey, Melissa, Hopper, John L., Yannoukakos, Koulis, Brown, Melissa, kConFab Investigators, Easton, Douglas, Tavtigian, Sean V., Goldgar, David and Spurdle, Amanda B. (2006). Genetic and Histopathologic Evaluation of BRCA1 and BRCA2 DNA Sequence Variance of Unknown Clinical Significance. Cancer Research, 66 (4), 2019-2027. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-05-3546
Lewis, Aaron G., Flanagan, James, Marsh, Anna, Pupo, Gulietta M., Mann, Graham, Spurdle, Amanda B., Lindeman, Geoffrey J., Visvader, Jane E., Brown, Melissa A., Chenevix-Trench, Georgia and KConFab, Kathleen Cuningham Foundation (2005). Mutation analysis of FANCD2, BRIP1/BACH1, LMO4 and SFN in familial breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research, 7 (6) R1005, R1005-R1016. doi: 10.1186/bcr1336
Pettigrew, Christopher, Wayte, Nicola, Lovelock, Paul K., Tavtigian, Sean V, Chenevix-Trench, Georgia, Spurdle, Amanda B. and Brown, Melissa A. (2005). Evolutionary conservation analysis increases the colocalization of predicted exonic splicing enhancers in the BRCA1 gene with missense sequence changes and in-frame deletions, but not polymorphisms. Breast Cancer Research, 7 (6), R929-R939. doi: 10.1186/bcr1324
Wardrop, Stacey L., Brown, Melissa A. and kConFab Investigators (2005). Identification of two evolutionarily conserved and functional regulatory elements in intron 2 of the human BRCA1 gene. Genomics, 86 (3), 316-328. doi: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2005.05.006
He, Y. W., Brown, M. A., Rothnagel, J. A., Saunders, N. A. and Smith, R. (2005). Roles of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins A and B in cell proliferation. Journal of Cell Science, 118 (14), 3173-3183. doi: 10.1242/jcs.02448
Timmins, N. E., Harding, F. J., Smart, C. E., Brown, M. A. and Nielsen, L. K. (2005). Method for the generation and cultivation of functional three-dimensional mammary constructs without exogenous extracellular matrix. Cell And Tissue Research, 320 (1), 207-210. doi: 10.1007/s00441-004-1064-6
Tesoriero, A. A., Wong, E. M., Jenkins, M. A., Hopper, J. L., KConFab, K. C. F., Brown, M. A., Chenevix-Trench, G., Spurdle, A. B. and Southey, M. C. (2005). Molecular characterization and cancer risk associated with BRCA1 and BRCA2 splice site variants identified in multiple-case breast cancer families. Human Mutation, 26 (5), 495-495. doi: 10.1002/humu.9379
Simpson, K. J., Wati, M. R., Deans, A. J., Lindeman, G. J. and Brown, M. A. (2004). MMTV-trBrca 1 mice display strain-dependent abnormalities in vaginal development. International Journal of Developmental Biology, 48 (7), 675-678. doi: 10.1387/ijdb.041849ks
Deans, Andrew J., Simpson, Kaylene J., Trivett, Melanie K., Brown, Melissa A. and McArthur, Grant (2004). Brca1 inactivation induces p27Kip1-dependent cell cycle arrest and delayed development in the mouse mammary gland. Oncogene, 23 (36), 6136-6145. doi: 10.1038/sj.onc.1207805
He, Y., Brown, M. A., Rothnagel, J. A., Saunders, N. A. and Smith, R. (2004). Roles of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins A/B in cell growth. Molecular Biology of The Cell, 15, 252A-253A.
Brown, M. A., Nicolai, H., Howe, K., Katagiri, T., Lalani, E., Simpson, K. J., Manning, N. W., Deans, A., Chen, P., Khanna, K. K., Wati, M. R., Griffiths, B. L., Xu, C. F., Stamp, G. W. H. and Solomon, E. (2002). Expression of a truncated Brca1 protein delays lactational mammary development in transgenic mice. Transgenic Research, 11 (5), 467-478. doi: 10.1023/A:1020348025139
Brown, M. A., Lo, L. J., Catteau, A., Xu, C. F., Lindeman, G. J., Hodgson, S. and Solomon, E. (2002). Germline BRCA1 promoter deletions in UK and Australian familial breast cancer patients: Identification of a novel deletion consistent with BRCA1 :psi VBRCA1 recombination. Human Mutation, 19 (4), 435-442. doi: 10.1002/humu.10055
Lane, T. F., Lin, C. W., Brown, M. A., Solomon, E. and Leder, P. (2000). Gene replacement with the human BRCA1 locus: tissue specific expression and rescue of embryonic lethality in mice. Oncogene, 19 (36), 4085-4090. doi: 10.1038/sj.onc.1203760
Catteau, A., Xu, C. F., Brown, M. A., Hodgson, S., Greenman, J., Mathew, C. G., Dunning, A. M. and Solomon, E. (1999). Identification of a C/G polymorphism in the promoter region of the BRCA1 gene and its use as a marker for rapid detection of promoter deletions. British Journal of Cancer, 79 (5-6), 759-763. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6690122
Xu, CF, Brown, MA, Nicolai, H, Chambers, JA, Griffiths, BL and Solomon, E (1997). Isolation and characterisation of the NBR2 gene which lies head to head with the human BRCA1 gene. Human Molecular Genetics, 6 (7), 1057-1062. doi: 10.1093/hmg/6.7.1057
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Barnard, W, Bower, J, Brown, MA, Murphy, M and Austin, L (1994). Leukemia Inhibitory Factor (lif) Infusion Stimulates Skeletal-Muscle Regeneration After Injury - Injured Muscle Expresses Lif Messenger-Rna. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 123 (1-2), 108-113. doi: 10.1016/0022-510X(94)90211-9
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Brown, MA, Gough, NM, Willson, TA, Rockman, S and Begley, CG (1993). Structure and Expression of the Gm-Csf Receptor Alpha-Chain and Beta-Chain Genes in Human Leukemia. Leukemia, 7 (1), 63-74.
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Conference Papers
Northwood, K., Saunus, J., Milevskiy, M., Lakhani, S. and Brown, M. (2017). RNA immunoprecipitation reveals lncRNA-protein interactions in basal-like breast cancer. San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, San Antonio TX, United States, 6-10 December 2016. Philadelphia, PA United States: American Association for Cancer Research. doi: 10.1158/1538-7445.SABCS16-P1-04-05
Sevcik, Jan, Burke, Leslie, Gambino, Gaetana, Brewster, Brooke L., Tudini, Emma, Whiley, Philip J., Manoukian, Siranoush, Hansen, Thomas van Overeem, Pena, Marta Santamarina, Vega, Ana, Caligo, Maria A., Radice, Paolo, Peterlongo, Paolo, Rouleau, Etienne, Spurdle, Amanda B. and Brown, Melissa A. (2016). Bioinformatic and experimental evaluation of regulatory variants in breast cancer susceptibility genes. AACR 107th Annual Meeting on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, New Orleans, LA, United States, 16-20 April, 2016. Philadelphia, PA, United States: American Association for Cancer Research. doi: 10.1158/1538-7445.am2016-1859
Lim, Huai F., Northwood, Korinne, Milevskiy, Michael, Peters, Amelia A., Brown, Melissa, Roberts-Thomson, Sarah J. and Monteith, Gregory R. (2015). Transient Receptor Potential Cation Channel V4 (TRPV4) expression in breast cancer subtypes and potential expression regulators in breast cancer cells. APSA ASCEPT Joint Scientific Meeting 2015, Hobart, TAS, Australia, 29 November - 2 December 2015.
Northwood, orinne, Milevskiy, Michael and Brown, Melissa (2014). Investigating the role of ncRNAs in breast cancer associated DNA methylation. International Association for Breast Cancer Research, Sydney , Australia, 14-17 September 2014.
McKenzie, S.C., Sharma, A., Chee, K.W., Platts, D., Javorskky, G. and Brown, M. (2012). Cardiac transplantation for chemotherapy induced cardiomyopathy: Demographics and long term follow-up. 32nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation/Meeting of the ISHLT Academy Core Competencies in Mechanical Circulatory Support, Prague, Czech Republic, 17-21 April 2012. NEW YORK: ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2012.01.448
McAndrew, D., Kenny, P. A., Brown, M. A., Smart, C. E., Roberts-Thomson, S. J. and Monteith, G. R. (2009). The role of Orai1 and Stim2 in mammary epithelial cell calcium influx in the murine mammary gland. Combio2009, Christchurch, New Zealand, 6-10 Decemeber 2009. Canterbury, New Zealand: University of Canterbury.
French, J. D., Tan-Wong, S. M., Edwards, S., Smart, C. E., Proudfoot, N. J. and Brown, M. A. (2008). Dynamic interactions between the promoter and terminator regions of the mammalian BRCA1 gene. Fifth European Gordon Research Conference on Mammary Gland Biology, Lucca (Barga), Italy, 1-6 June 2008.
French, J. D., Edwards, S. L., Saunus, J. M., Tan-Wong, S. M., Brewster, B., Hardie, K. M., Leedman, P. J., Proudfoot, N. J. and Brown, M. A. (2008). Identification of functional regulatory elements in the non-coding regions of the BRCA1 gene. kConFab Familial Breast Cancer conference 2008, Couran Cove, Queensland, 2008.
McAndrew, D., Rice, M. L., Smart, C. E., Brown, M. A., Roberts-Thomson, S. J. and Monteith, G. R. (2008). Calcium channels in the mammary gland: Expression and function in lactation, and potential breast cancer targets. Australian Health and Medical Research Congress (AHMRC) 2008, Brisbane, Australia, 16-21 November 2008. Sydney, Australia: AHMRC.
Brewster, B., Brown, M. A., Edwards, S. L., French, J. D., Leedman, P., Proudfoot, N. J., Saunus, J. M., Southey, M., Tavtigian, S and Wong, S. M. (2007). Identification of novel mutation targets in the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 and genes that encode regulators of BRCA1. kConFab Familial Breast Cancer Conference, Couran Cove, Queensland, 21-24 August 2007.
Brewster, Brooke, Brooks, Kelly, Brown, Melissa Anne, Clarke, C., Fleming, J. S., French, J. D., Hetherington, Rehan, Lakhani, Sunil, Raghavendra, Ashwini, Rothnagel, Joseph, Smart, Chanel and Wainwright, Brandon (2007). Targeted disruption of Brca1 in restricted compartments of the mouse mammary epithelia. Gordon Research Conference: Mammary Gland Biology, Newport, RI, 10-15 June 2007.
Faddy, H. M., Smart, C. E., Brown, M. A., Feng, M., Rao, R., Roberts-Thomson, S. J. and Monteith, G. R. (2007). Calcium transport in the mammary gland: A role for secretory pathway calcium ATPase 2 (SPCA2) in normal physiology and breast cancer. ComBio 2007, Sydney, 22-26 September 2007.
Rice, M. L., Stewart, T. A., Smart, C. E., McAndrew, D., Faddy, H. M., Brown, M. A., Roberts-Thomson, S. J. and Monteith, G. R. (2007). Calcium influx pathways during mammary gland development and lactation. ComBio 2007, Sydney, 22-26 September 2007.
Brewster, Brooke, Brooke, Kelly, Brown, Melissa Anne, Clarke, C., Fleming, J. S., French, J. D., Hetherington, Rehan, Lakhani, Sunil, Raghavendra, Ashwini, Rothnagel, Joseph, Smart, Chanel and Wainwright, Brandon (2007). Targeted disruption of Brca1 in restricted compartments of the mouse mammary epithelia. kConFab Familial Breast Cancer Conference, Couran Cove, Queensland, 21-24 August 2007.
French, J. D., Wong, S. M., Saunus, J. M., Smart, C. E., Proudfoot, N. J. and Brown, M. A. (2007). Dynamic interactions between the promoter and terminator regions of the mammalian BRCA1 gene. Australian Breast Cancer Conference 2007, Melbourne, Australia, 19-20 November 2007.
Smart, C. E., Clarke, C., Brooks, K. M., Raghavendra, A., Brewster, B. L., French, J. D., Hetherington, R., Fleming, J. S., Rothnagel, J. A., Wainwright, B., Lakhani, S. R. and Brown, M. A. (2007). Targeted disruption of Brca1 in restricted compartments of the mouse mammary epithelia. Australian Breast Cancer Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 2007.
Roberts-Thomson, S. J., Faddy, H. M., Smart, C. E., Brown, M. A., Xu, R., Lee, G. Y., Kenny, P. A., Bissell, M. J., Feng, M., Rao, R. and Monteith, G. R. (2007). Secretory pathway Ca2+_ATPase isoforms in mouse lactation and in human breast cancer. Australian Breast Cancer Conference 2007, Bio 21 Institute, Melbourne, 19-20 November 2007.
Saunus, Jodi M., French, Juliet D., Edwards, Stacey L., Beveridge, Dianne J., Hatchell, Esme C., Wagner, Sarah A., Gason, Alexandra A., Simpson, Kaylene J., Leedman, Peter J. and Brown, Melissa A. (2006). Identification of RNA-binding proteins that regulate BRCA1 expression. Familial Cancer 2006: Research and Practice. A combined meeting of kConFab, Australian Ovarian Cancer Study (AOCS) and the Family Cancer Clinics of Australia and New Zealand, Couran Cove, South Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia, 16-19 August 2006. Kathleen Cuningham Foundation Consortium (kConFab).
Faddy, H. M., Smart, C. E., Brown, M. A., Roberts-Thomson, S. J. and Monteith, G. R. (2006). A role for secretory pathway calcium atpase 2 (SPCA2) in calcium transport, breast cancer and mammary gland development. ComBio 2006, Brisbane / Brisbane Convention Centre, 24-28 September 2006. Kent Town, South Australia: Australian Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Smart, C. E., Simpson, K. J., Manning, N. W. and Brown, M. A. (2006). Cellular and molecular changes in mammary epithelial cells with disrupted BRCA1 function. Gordon Conference on Mammary Gland Biology, Il Ciocco, 30 May 2006.
Saunus, Jodi M., Wardrop, Stacey L., French, Juliet D., Beveridge, Dianne J., Hatchell, Esme C., Dinnis, Diane M., Gason, Alexandra A., Simpson, Kaylene J., Leedman, Peter J. and Brown, Melissa A. (2006). Post-transcriptional regulation of the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 by Hu Antigen-R. ComBio 2006, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 24-28 September, 2006.
Wardrop, S. L., Saunus, J. M., French, J. D., Leedman, P. J. and Brown, M. A. (2005). Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of the breast cancer susceptibility gene 1 (BRCA1). National Cancer Research Institute Conference, Birmingham, UK, 2-5 Oct, 2005.
Brown, M. A., Chenevix-Trench, G., French, J. D., Hobson, K., KConFab Investigators, Lovelock, P. K., Marsh, A., McKay, M., Pandeya, N., Sculley, T., Southey, M. C., Sprung, C. N., Spurdle, A. B. and Wong, E. M. (2005). Prediction of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation status using post-irradiation assays of lymphoblastoid cell lines is compromised by inter-cell line phenotypic variability. Familial Cancer 2005: Research and Practice, Couran Cove, 30 August - 3 September, 2005.
Brown, M. A., Chenevix-Trench, G., Lovelock, P. K., Pettigrew, C., Spurdle, A. B., Tavtigian, S. and Wayte, N. J. (2005). Evolutionary conservation analysis may help identify functional exonic splice enhancer motifs in BRCA1 and BRCA2. Familial Cancer 2005: Research and Practice, Couran Cove, Queensland, 30 August - 3 September, 2005.
Chenevix-Trench, G., Healey, S. C., Lakhani, S., Brinkworth, R. I., KConFab, K. C. F., Marsh, A., Brown, M. A., Easton, D. F., Tavtigian, S., Goldgar, D. E. and Spurdle, A. B. (2005). Genetic and immunohistopathological evaluation of BRCA1 and BRCA2 unclassified variants. Familial Cancer 2005: Research and Practice, Couran Cove, Queensland, 30 August - 3 September, 2005.
Saunus, J. M., Wardrop, S. L., French, J. D., Beveridge, D. J., Hatchell, E. C., Gason, A. A., Simpson, K.J., Leedman, P. J. and Brown, M. A. (2005). Hur post-transcriptionally regulates BRCA1: involvement of elements in the BRCA1 3' untranslated region. Molecular Approaches to Controlling Cancer, New York, 3-5 June, 2005.
French, J. D., Saunus, J. M., Wardrop, S. L. and Brown, M. A. (2005). Regulation of BRCA1 by Heregulin. Familial Cancer 2005: Research and Practice, Couran Cove, 30 Aug - 3 Sept, 2005.
Smart, C. E., Simpson, K. J., Manning, N. W., Karunaratne, S. M., Edwards, S., Yap, A. S. K., Rothnagel, J. A., Visvader, J. E., Lindeman, G. J. and Brown, M. A. (2005). Altered cytokeratin and vimentin expression in mammary epithelial cells with disrupted BRCA1 function. Familial Cancer 2005: Research and Practice, Couran Cove, 30 Aug - 3 Sept, 2005.
Wardrop, S. L., Lane, T. and Brown, M. A. (2002). Identification of critical regulatory elements in the breast cancer susceptibility (BRCA1) gene. ComBio 2002, Sydney, Australia, 29 September - 3 October, 2002. Kent Town, South Australia:
French, J., Manning, N.W., Robinson, S. E., Karunaratne, S. M., Reddel, R. and Brown, M. A. (2002). Investigating a role for BRCA1 in telomere maintenance. Australian Telomere Workshop, Sydney, Australia, 2002. Kent Town, South Australia:
Saunus, J. M., Wardrop, S. L. and Brown, M. A. (2002). Identification of cis and trans regulators in the BRCA1 3'untranslated region. ComBio 2002, Sydney, Australia, 29 September - 3 October, 2002. Kent Town, South Australia:
Manning, N. W., Simpson, K. J., Karunaratne, S. M., Yap, A. S. K., Visvader, J. E., Lindeman, G. J. and Brown, M. A. (2002). A role for BRCA1 in mammary epithelial morphogenesis, differentiation and adhesion. Australian Health & Medical Research Conference, Melbourne, Australia, November, 2002.
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