Howard Slater

Professor
Genetics
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia

Professor Genetics
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 Intrest

organ transplantation,cytogenetics and molecular genetics

List of Publications
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.
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.