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DR KATHERINE MORLEY



Contact Details

Organization: Population Health
Position: RESEARCH FELLOW - MEGA/ORC
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Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Genetic epidemiology of breast cancer Australia
Pharmacogenomics Australia
Genetic epidemiology of psychosis Australia
Genetic epidemiology of substance use Australia

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
BACHELOR OF ARTS (HISTORY) The University of Queensland 31-Dec-2000
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (GENETICS) WITH HONOURS The University of Queensland 31-Dec-2001
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN HEALTH ECONOMICS The University of Queensland 05-Nov-2007
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY The University of Queensland 14-Nov-2007

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member Australasian Epidemiological Association General member 05-Oct-2005
Member International Early Psychosis Association General member 01-Sep-2008

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Other (Award) The University of Queensland Dean's Commendation for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Thesis 2007 14-Jul-2008
Scholarship Australian Rotary Health Research Fund Ian Scott Fellowship (PhD scholarship) 12-Jan-2004

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
PUBLIC HEALTH (AUSTRALIA) FELLOWSHIP - USING GENETICS TO IMPROVE CANCER AND MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT Chief Investigator NHMRC Training (Postdoctoral) Fellowships 01/01/2008
TRAVEL TO THE LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE, UK Chief Investigator VIC CANCER AGENCY Link and Learn Grants 01/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • Genome-wide assocation study of smoking initiation and current smoking


    Year: 2009
    Journal: American Journal of Human Genetics
    Volume: 84
    Page numbers: 367-379
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  • Can we identify genese for alcohol consumption in samples ascertained for heterogenous purposes?
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Alcoholism - Clinical and Experimental Research
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 729-739
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  • Gender differences in premorbid, entry, treatment, and outcome characteristics in a treated epidemiological sample of 661 patients with first episode psychosis
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Schizophrenia Research
    Volume: 114
    Issue: 1-3
    Page numbers: 17-24
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Autosomal linkage analysis for cannabis use behaviors in Australian adults


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Drug and Alcohol Dependence
    Volume: 98
    Page numbers: 185-190
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  • Explaining the convergence of male and female smoking prevalence in Australia
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Addiction
    Volume: 103
    Page numbers: 487 - 495
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  • Familial psychopathology in the first episode psychosis outcome study
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Volume: 42
    Page numbers: 617-626
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  • Long-term stability and heritability of telephone interview measures of alcohol consumption and dependence
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Twin Research and Human Genetics
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 287 - 305
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Exploring the inter-relationship of smoking age-at-onset, cigarette consumption and smoking persistence: genes or environment?


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Psychological Medicine
    Volume: 37
    Page numbers: 1357-1367
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  • The genetics of voting: an Australian twin study


    Year: 2007
    Journal: Behavior Genetics
    Volume: 37
    Page numbers: 435-448
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  • Cohort trends in prevalence and spousal concordance for smoking
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Drug and Alcohol Dependence
    Volume: 88
    Page numbers: 122-129
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  • Genetic linkage to chromosome 22q12 for a heavy-smoking quantitative trait in two independent samples
    Year: 2007
    Journal: American Journal of Human Genetics
    Volume: 80
    Page numbers: 856-866
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • 'Occasional' and 'social' smokers: potential target groups for smoking cessation campaigns?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 550-554
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  • A possible smoking susceptibility locus on chromosome 11p12: evidence from sex-limitation linkage analyses in a sample of Australian twin families
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Behavior Genetics
    Volume: 36
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 87-99
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  • Assumption-free estimation of heritability from genome-wide identity-by-descent sharing between full siblings
    Year: 2006
    Journal: PLoS Genetics
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: e41
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Genomewide significant linkage to migrainous headache on chromosome 5q21
    Year: 2005
    Journal: American Journal of Human Genetics
    Issue: 500-512
    Page numbers: 77
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  • Sex-limited genome-wide linkage scan for body mass index in an unselected sample of 933 Australian twin families
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Twin Research and Human Genetics
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 616-632
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • The policy and ethical implications of genetic research on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder


    Year: 2004
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
    Issue: 10-19
    Page numbers: 38
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  • Neuroscience research on the addictions: A prospectus for future ethical and policy analysis
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Addictive Behaviors
    Volume: 29
    Page numbers: 1481-1495
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Dizygotic twinning is not associated with methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase haplotypes


    Year: 2003
    Journal: Human Reproduction
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  • Addiction, neuroscience and ethics
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Addiction
    Volume: 98
    Page numbers: 867-870
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • The genetics of cognitive processes: candidate genes in humans an animals
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Behavior Genetics
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 511-531
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