Professor Ron Trent

Professor
Medicine, Central Clinical School
Sydney Forensic Medicine and Science Network

K25 - Medical Foundation Building
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia

T: +61 2 9515 7514
F: +61 2 95505412
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Research interests

Ron is focussed on understanding the complex interactions that occur between genes and the environment and so lead to the important non-Mendelian genetic disorders that occur in the community.

PhD and Masters' project opportunities

Molecular genetics of complex diseases

Keywords

Motor neuron disease; Bioinformatics; Genetic diseases; Genetic processes

Publications

2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006

2011

   
  • Watts, G., Sullivan, D., Poplawski, N., van Bockxmeer, F., Hamilton-Craig, I., Clifton, P., O'Brien, R., Bishop, W., George, P., Barter, P., Bates, T., Burnett, J., Coakley, J., Davidson, P., Emery, J., Martin, A., Farid, W., Freeman, L., Geelhoed, E., Juniper, A., Kidd, A., Kostner, K., Krass, I., Livingston, M., Maxwell, S., O'Leary, P., Owaimrin, A., Redgrave, T., Reid, N., Southwell, L., Suthers, G., Tonkin, A., Towler, S., Trent, R. (2011), Familial hypercholesterolaemia: A model of care for Australasia. Atherosclerosis. Supplements. 12(2), 221–263. [Abstract]

2010

   
  • Wollstein, A., Lao, O., Becker, C., Brauer, S., Trent, R., Nurnberg, P., Stoneking, M., Kayser, M. (2010), Demographic History of Oceania Inferred from Genome-wide Data. Current Biology. 20(22), 1983-1992. [Abstract]
  • Trent, R. (2010), Pathology practice and pharmacogenomics. Pharmacogenomics. 11(1), 105-111. [Abstract]
  • Luquin, N., Yu, B., Trent, R., Pamphlett, R. (2010), DHPLC can be used to detect low-level mutations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. 11(1-2), 76-82. [Abstract]
  • Yu, B., Trent, R. (2010), Genetics of Athletic Performance. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. (pp.1-8).United Kingdom: John Wiley & Sons Ltd..

2009

   
  • Luquin, N., Yu, B., Saunderson, R., Trent, R., Pamphlett, R. (2009), Genetic variants in the promoter of TARDBP in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neuromuscular Disorders. 19(10), 696-700. [Abstract]
  • Trent, R., Yu, B. (2009), The future of genetic research in exercise science and sports medicine. Medicine and Sport Science. 54, 187-195. [Abstract]
  • Morahan, J., Yu, B., Trent, R., Pamphlett, R. (2009), A genome-wide analysis of brain DNA methylation identifies new candidate genes for sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 10(5-6), 418-429. [Abstract]

2008

   
  • Luquin, N., Yu, B., Trent, R., Morahan, J., Pamphlett, R. (2008), An analysis of the entire SOD1 gene in sporadic ALS. Neuromuscular disorders : NMD. 18(7), 545-52. [Abstract]
  • Saunderson, R., Yu, B., Trent, R., Pamphlett, R. (2008), A comparison of the lengths of androgen receptor triplet repeats in brain and blood in motor neuron diseases. Journal of the neurological sciences. 267(0), 125-8. [Abstract]
  • Kayser, M., Choi, Y., van Oven, M., Mona, S., Brauer, S., Trent, R., Suarkia, D., Schiefenhovel, W., Stoneking, M. (2008), The impact of the Austronesian expansion: Evidence from mtDNA and Y chromosome diversity in the Admiralty Islands of Melanesia. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25(7), 1362-1374. [Abstract]
  • Kayser, M., Lao, O., Saar, K., Brauer, S., Wang, X., Nurnberg, P., Trent, R., Stoneking, M. (2008), Genorne-wide analysis indicates more Asian than melanesian ancestry of polynesians. American Journal of Human Genetics. 82(1), 194-198. [Abstract]
  • Le, H., Hinchcliffe, M., Yu, B., Trent, R. (2008), Computer-assisted reading of DNA sequences. Methods in Molecular Medicine. 141, 177-197. [Abstract]

2007

   
  • Saunderson, R., Yu, B., Trent, R., Pamphlett, R. (2007), Low yield in screening patients with sporadic motor neuron disease for Kennedy disease. Internal medicine journal. 37(11), 772-774. [Abstract]
  • Morahan, J., Yu, B., Trent, R., Pamphlett, R. (2007), Genetic susceptibility to environmental toxicants in ALS. American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics. 144B(7), 885-90. [Abstract]
  • Myles, S., Hradetzky, E., Engelken, J., Lao, O., Nürnberg, P., Trent, R., Wang, X., Kayser, M., Stoneking, M. (2007), Identification of a candidate genetic variant for the high prevalence of type II diabetes in Polynesians. European journal of human genetics. 15(5), 584-589. [Abstract]
  • Morahan, J., Yu, B., Trent, R., Pamphlett, R. (2007), A gene-environment study of the paraoxonase 1 gene and pesticides in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neurotoxicology. 28, 532-40. [Abstract]
  • Saunderson, R., Yu, B., Trent, R., Pamphlett, R. (2007), Are enteroviral receptors different in sporadic motor neuron disease?. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis : official publication of the World Federation of Neurology Research Group on Motor Neuron Diseases. 8(1), 26-30. [Abstract]
  • Morahan, J., Yu, B., Trent, R., Pamphlett, R. (2007), Are metallothionein genes silenced in ALS?. Toxicology letters. 168(1), 83-7. [Abstract]
  • Trent, R. (2007), NHMRC Human Genetics Advisory Committee. In: Human Biotechnology and Public Trust: Trends, Perceptions and Regulation. (pp.247-252).Australia: Centre for Law & Genetics, University of Tasmania.

2006

   
  • Kayser, M., Brauer, S., Cordaux, R., Casto, A., Lao, O., Zhivotovsky, L., Moyse-Faurie, C., Rutledge, R., Schiefenhoevel, W., Gil, D., Lin, A., Underhill, P., Oefner, P., Trent, R., Stoneking, M. (2006), Melanesian and Asian origins of Polynesians: mtDNA and Y chromosome gradients across the Pacific. Molecular biology and evolution. 23(11), 2234-44. [Abstract]
  • Gopinath, B., Trent, R., Yu, B. (2006), The unique expression profile of the androgen receptor gene in a rat model of neonatal cardiac hypertrophy. Pathology. 38(2), 142-4. [Abstract]
  • Trent, R. (2006), Diagnosis of the haemoglobinopathies. Clinical Biochemist Reviews. 27(1), 27-38. [Abstract]
  • Trent, R., Webster, B., Bowden, D., Gilbert, A., Ho, P., Lindeman, R., Lammi, A., Rowell, J., Hinchcliffe, M., Colley, A., Wilson, M., Saleh, M., Blackwell, J., Vicki, P. (2006), Complex phenotypes in the haemoglobinopathies: recommendations on screening and DNA testing. Pathology. 38(6), 507-519.
  • Trent, R., Alexander, I. (2006), Gene therapy in sport. British journal of sports medicine. 40(1), 4-5. [Abstract]
  • Li, J., Hayden, M., Warby, S., Durr, A., Morrison, P., Nance, M., Ross, C., Margolis, R., Rosenblatt, A., Squitieri, F., Frati, L., Gómez-Tortosa, E., García, C., Suchowersky, O., Klimek, M., Trent, R., McCusker, E., Novelletto, A., Frontali, M., Paulsen, J., Jones, R., Ashizawa, T., Lazzarini, A., Wheeler, V., Prakash, R., Xu, G., Djoussé, L., Mysore, J., Gillis, T., Hakky, M., Cupples, L., Saint-Hilaire, M., Cha, J., Hersch, S., Penney, J., Harrison, M., Perlman, S., Zanko, A., Abramson, R., Lechich, A., Duckett, A., Marder, K., Conneally, P., Gusella, J., MacDonald, M., Myers, R. (2006), Genome-wide significance for a modifier of age at neurological onset in Huntington's disease at 6q23-24: the HD MAPS study. BMC medical genetics [electronic resource]. 7, 71. [Abstract]
  • Kohonen-Corish, M., Cooper, W., Saab, J., Thompson, J., Trent, R., Millward, M. (2006), Promoter hypermethylation of the O(6)-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase gene and microsatellite instability in metastatic melanoma. The Journal of investigative dermatology. 126(1), 167-71. [Abstract]