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Grant Morahan is affiliated with the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research in Australia. Their primary fields of study include Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on subfields such as Genetics, Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Surgery, and Immunology.

Their research topics span several specialized areas, including:

  • Diabetes and associated disorders
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research
  • Diabetes Management and Research
  • Gut microbiota and health

Grant Morahan has contributed to several publications, with some recent papers including:

  • Loss of LAMP5 interneurons drives neuronal network dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease (2022), Acta Neuropathologica
  • Type 1 diabetes in pregnancy is associated with distinct changes in the composition and function of the gut microbiome (2021), Microbiome
  • Children at onset of type 1 diabetes show altered N-glycosylation of plasma proteins and IgG (2022), Diabetologia
  • E2f8 and Dlg2 genes have independent effects on impaired insulin secretion associated with hyperglycaemia (2020), Diabetologia
  • Cancer susceptibility genes: update and systematic perspectives (2022), The Innovation

Frequent publication venues for Morahan include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Diabetologia
  • eLife
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Grant Morahan frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, among whom are:

  • Megan A. S. Penno
  • Helena Oakey
  • Rebecca L. Thomson
  • Georgia Soldatos
  • Peter G. Colman

Best Publications

  • Genome-wide association study and meta-analysis find that over 40 loci affect risk of type 1 diabetes

    Jeffrey C Barrett;David G Clayton;Patrick Concannon;Beena Akolkar

  • The Collaborative Cross, a community resource for the genetic analysis of complex traits

    Gary A. Churchill;David C. Airey;Hooman Allayee;Joe M. Angel

  • Gut microbial metabolites limit the frequency of autoimmune T cells and protect against type 1 diabetes

    Eliana Mariño;James L Richards;Keiran H McLeod;Dragana Stanley

  • The genome architecture of the collaborative cross mouse genetic reference population

    Fuad A. Iraqi;Mustafa Mahajne;Yasser Salaymah;Hani Sandovski

  • The nature and identification of quantitative trait loci: a community's view.

    Oduola Abiola;Joe M. Angel;Philip Avner;Alexander A. Bachmanov

  • Peripheral deletion of self-reactive B cells

    David M. Russell;Zlatko Dembić;Grant Morahan;J. F. A. P. Miller

  • Genetics of Type 1 Diabetes: What's Next?

    Flemming Pociot;Beena Akolkar;Patrick Concannon;Henry A. Erlich

  • Linkage disequilibrium of a type 1 diabetes susceptibility locus with a regulatory IL12B allele

    Grant Morahan;Dexing Huang;Susie I. Ymer;Michael R. Cancilla

  • Diabetes in transgenic mice resulting from over-expression of class I histocompatibility molecules in pancreatic β cells

    Janette Allison;I. L. Campbell;G. Morahan;T. E. Mandel

  • Type 1 Diabetes: Evidence for Susceptibility Loci from Four Genome-Wide Linkage Scans in 1,435 Multiplex Families

    Patrick Concannon;Henry A. Erlich;Cecile Julier;Grant Morahan

  • Tolerance of class I histocompatibility antigens expressed extrathymically.

    Grant Morahan;Janette Allison;J. F. A. P. Miller

  • Peripheral T Cell Tolerance

    Jacques F. A. P. Miller;Grant Morahan

  • The rising incidence of type 1 diabetes is accounted for by cases with lower-risk human leukocyte antigen genotypes.

    Spiros Fourlanos;Michael Damian Varney;Brian Duncan Tait;Grant Morahan

  • The nu gene acts cell-autonomously and is required for differentiation of thymic epithelial progenitors.

    C. C. Blackburn;C. L. Augustine;R. Li;R. P. Harvey

  • Association of IL12B promoter polymorphism with severity of atopic and non-atopic asthma in children.

    Grant Morahan;Dexing Huang;Mark Wu;Barbara J Holt

  • A comprehensive draft genome sequence for lupin (Lupinus angustifolius), an emerging health food: insights into plant–microbe interactions and legume evolution

    James K. Hane;Yao Ming;Lars G. Kamphuis;Matthew N. Nelson

  • Complete primary structure, chromosomal localisation, and definition of polymorphisms of the gene encoding the human interleukin-12 p40 subunit.

    D Huang;Cancilla;G Morahan

  • Polymorphisms in cytokine genes define subpopulations of HIV-1 patients who experienced immune restoration diseases.

    Patricia Price;Grant Morahan;Dexing Huang;Emma Stone

  • Clonal deletion of autospecific B lymphocytes.

    David Nemazee;David Russell;Bernd Arnold;Guenter Hahmmerling

  • The Type 1 Diabetes Genetics Consortium.

    Stephen S. Rich;Patrick Concannon;Henry Erlich;Cecile Julier

Frequent Co-Authors

Flemming Pociot
Flemming Pociot Steno Diabetes Center
Leonard C. Harrison
Leonard C. Harrison University of Melbourne
Patrick Concannon
Patrick Concannon University of Florida
Henry A. Erlich
Henry A. Erlich UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
John A. Todd
John A. Todd University of Oxford
Stephen S. Rich
Stephen S. Rich University of Virginia
Ian James
Ian James Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science
Nigel G. Laing
Nigel G. Laing University of Western Australia
Anthony T. Papenfuss
Anthony T. Papenfuss Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Jacques F. A. P. Miller
Jacques F. A. P. Miller Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

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