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10938
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3917
National Ranking
130

Overview

Deon J. Venter is affiliated with Mater Health Services in Australia and has contributed to research primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Their published work encompasses subfields such as Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Immunology, Surgery, and Genetics.

Their research topics cover areas including gene expression and cancer classification, genetics, bioinformatics and biomedical research, cancer genomics and diagnostics, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, interferon and immune responses, vaccines and immunoinformatics approaches, as well as hidradenitis suppurativa and treatments.

Selected recent papers include:

  • "Artificial intelligence-driven biomedical genomics," 2023, Knowledge-Based Systems
  • "A novel nicastrin mutation in a three-generation Dutch family with hidradenitis suppurativa: a search for functional significance," 2020, Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology
  • "Profiling COVID-19 Genetic Research: A Data-Driven Study Utilizing Intelligent Bibliometrics," 2021, Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
  • "Effects of backbone cyclization on the pharmacokinetics and drug efficiency of the orally active analgesic conotoxin cVc1.1," 2021, Medicine in Drug Discovery
  • "A patient-based murine model recapitulates human STAT3 gain-of-function syndrome," 2024, Clinical Immunology

Frequent co-authors associated with their work include:

  • Mark Grosser
  • Mengjia Wu
  • Jie Lü
  • Kairui Guo
  • Yi Zhang

Their publications appear in a variety of journals with recurrent contributions to:

  • Knowledge-Based Systems
  • Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
  • Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology
  • Medicine in Drug Discovery
  • Clinical Immunology

Best Publications

  • Isolation of a Candidate Human Telomerase Catalytic Subunit Gene, Which Reveals Complex Splicing Patterns in Different Cell Types

    Andrzej Kilian;David D.L. Bowtell;Helen E. Abud;Gary R. Hime

  • Multifactorial Analysis of Differences Between Sporadic Breast Cancers and Cancers Involving BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations

    Sunil R. Lakhani;Jocelyne Jacquemier;John P Sloane;Barry A. Gusterson

  • Tissue Hyperplasia and Enhanced T-Cell Signalling via ZAP-70 in c-Cbl-Deficient Mice

    Maria A. Murphy;Ralf G. Schnall;Deon J. Venter;Deon J. Venter;Louise Barnett

  • Comparison of human placenta- and bone marrow-derived multipotent mesenchymal stem cells.

    Sarah Barlow;Gary Brooke;Konica Chatterjee;Gareth Price

  • Chips with everything: DNA microarrays in infectious diseases

    Penelope A Bryant;Deon Venter;Roy Robins-Browne;Nigel Curtis

  • Common chromosomal fragile site FRA16D sequence: identification of the FOR gene spanning FRA16D and homozygous deletions and translocation breakpoints in cancer cells

    Karin Ried;Merran Finnis;Lynne Hobson;Marie Mangelsdorf

  • The Breast Cancer Family Registry: an infrastructure for cooperative multinational, interdisciplinary and translational studies of the genetic epidemiology of breast cancer

    Esther M John;John L Hopper;Jeanne C Beck;Julia A Knight

  • Population-based Estimate of the Average Age-specific Cumulative Risk of Breast Cancer for a Defined Set of Protein-truncating Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2

    John L. Hopper;Melissa C. Southey;Gillian S. Dite;Damien J. Jolley

  • Distinct molecular pathogeneses of early-onset breast cancers in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers: a population-based study.

    Jane E. Armes;Lynne Trute;David White;Melissa C. Southey;Melissa C. Southey

  • The histologic phenotypes of breast carcinoma occurring before age 40 years in women with and without BRCA1 or BRCA2 germline mutations a population-based study

    Jane E. Armes;A. J. Matthew Egan;Melissa C. Southey;Gillian S. Dite

  • Evolution of separate predation- and defence-evoked venoms in carnivorous cone snails

    Sébastien Dutertre;Sébastien Dutertre;Ai-Hua Jin;Irina Vetter;Brett Hamilton

  • The pathology of familial breast cancer: histological features of cancers in families not attributable to mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2.

    Sunil R. Lakhani;Barry A. Gusterson;Jocelyne Jacquemier;John P. Sloane

  • Diverse phenotypes associated with exon 10 mutations of the RET proto-oncogene

    Lois M. Mulligan;Charts Eng;Tanla Attlé;Stanislas Lyonnet

  • The gene associated with trichorhinophalangeal syndrome in humans is overexpressed in breast cancer

    Laszlo Radvanyi;Devender Singh-Sandhu;Scott Gallichan;Corey Lovitt

  • Overexpression of the steroid receptor coactivator AIB1 in breast cancer correlates with the absence of estrogen and progesterone receptors and positivity for p53 and HER2/neu.

    Toula Bouras;Melissa C. Southey;Melissa C. Southey;Deon J. Venter;Deon J. Venter

  • Familial Risks, Early-Onset Breast Cancer, and BRCA1 and BRCA2 Germline Mutations

    Gillian S. Dite;Mark A. Jenkins;Melissa C. Southey;Jane S. Hocking

  • The LIM domain gene LMO4 inhibits differentiation of mammary epithelial cells in vitro and is overexpressed in breast cancer

    Jane E. Visvader;Deon Venter;Kyungmin Hahm;Margaret Santamaria

  • Development and validation of a novel molecular biomarker diagnostic test for the early detection of sepsis

    Allison Sutherland;Mervyn Thomas;Roslyn A Brandon;Richard B Brandon

  • Stanniocalcin 2 is an estrogen-responsive gene coexpressed with the estrogen receptor in human breast cancer.

    Toula Bouras;Melissa C. Southey;Andy C. Chang;Roger R. Reddel

  • Adaptive evolution of the tumour suppressor BRCA1 in humans and chimpanzees. Australian Breast Cancer Family Study.

    Gavin A. Huttley;Simon Easteal;Melissa C. Southey;Andrea Tesoriero

Frequent Co-Authors

Melissa C. Southey
Melissa C. Southey Monash University
John L. Hopper
John L. Hopper University of Melbourne
Margaret R. E. McCredie
Margaret R. E. McCredie University of Otago
Graham G. Giles
Graham G. Giles University of Melbourne
Georgia Chenevix-Trench
Georgia Chenevix-Trench QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Mark A. Jenkins
Mark A. Jenkins University of Melbourne
Amanda B. Spurdle
Amanda B. Spurdle QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Robert I. Richards
Robert I. Richards University of Adelaide
Peter J. van der Spek
Peter J. van der Spek Erasmus University Rotterdam
Douglas F. Easton
Douglas F. Easton University of Cambridge

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