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Overview

Hamish S. Scott is affiliated with the University of South Australia in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, focusing on genetics, hematology, molecular biology, cancer research, and pediatric health.

The scientist's work examines specific topics including:

  • Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research
  • Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Treatments
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Blood disorders and treatments

Hamish S. Scott has published significantly in the following venues:

  • Blood
  • Blood Advances
  • Pathology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Genetics in Medicine

Frequent collaborators in their research include Anna Brown, Christopher N Hahn, Devendra Hiwase, Peer Arts, and Andreas Schreiber.

Recent papers by Hamish S. Scott include:

  • RUNX1-mutated families show phenotype heterogeneity and a somatic mutation profile unique to germline predisposed AML, 2020, Blood Advances
  • Integrated multi-omics for rapid rare disease diagnosis on a national scale, 2023, Nature Medicine
  • Secondary leukemia in patients with germline transcription factor mutations (RUNX1, GATA2, CEBPA), 2020, Blood
  • MyoD-family inhibitor proteins act as auxiliary subunits of Piezo channels, 2023, Science
  • GATA2 deficiency syndrome: A decade of discovery, 2021, Human Mutation

Best Publications

  • Positional cloning of the APECED gene

    Kentaro Nagamine;Pärt Peterson;Hamish S. Scott;Jun Kudoh

  • Use of within-array replicate spots for assessing differential expression in microarray experiments

    Gordon K. Smyth;Joëlle Michaud;Hamish S. Scott

  • TWEAK, a New Secreted Ligand in the Tumor Necrosis Factor Family That Weakly Induces Apoptosis

    Yves Chicheportiche;Paul R. Bourdon;Haoda Xu;Yen-Ming Hsu

  • Heritable GATA2 mutations associated with familial myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia

    Christopher N. Hahn;Christopher N. Hahn;Chan-Eng Chong;Chan-Eng Chong;Catherine L. Carmichael;Ella J. Wilkins;Ella J. Wilkins

  • A network-biology perspective of microRNA function and dysfunction in cancer

    Cameron P. Bracken;Cameron P. Bracken;Hamish S. Scott;Hamish S. Scott;Gregory J. Goodall;Gregory J. Goodall

  • RANK signals from CD4+3− inducer cells regulate development of Aire-expressing epithelial cells in the thymic medulla

    Simona W. Rossi;Mi-Yeon Kim;Andreas Leibbrandt;Sonia M. Parnell

  • In vitro analyses of known and novel RUNX1/AML1 mutations in dominant familial platelet disorder with predisposition to acute myelogenous leukemia: implications for mechanisms of pathogenesis

    Joëlle Michaud;Feng Wu;Motomi Osato;Gregory M. Cottles

  • Dodecamer repeat expansion in cystatin B gene in progressive myoclonus epilepsy

    Maria D. Lalioti;Hamish S. Scott;Catherine Buresi;Colette Rossier

  • Isolation and initial characterization of a novel zinc finger gene, DNMT3L, on 21q22.3, related to the cytosine-5-methyltransferase 3 gene family

    Ulla Aapola;Kazunori Shibuya;Hamish S. Scott;Juha Ollila

  • Meiotic and epigenetic defects in Dnmt3L-knockout mouse spermatogenesis

    Kylie E Webster;Moira Kathleen O'Bryan;Stephen Fletcher;Pauline E Crewther

  • A recurrent germline PAX5 mutation confers susceptibility to pre-B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

    Sohela Shah;Kasmintan A. Schrader;Esmé Waanders;Andrew E. Timms

  • Gene dosage--limiting role of Aire in thymic expression, clonal deletion, and organ-specific autoimmunity.

    Adrian Liston;Daniel Herbert Donald Gray;Sylvie Lesage;Sylvie Lesage;Anne Louise Fletcher

  • Autoimmune regulator is expressed in the cells regulating immune tolerance in thymus medulla.

    Maarit Heino;Pärt Peterson;Pärt Peterson;Jun Kudoh;Kentaro Nagamine

  • Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 and NALP5, a parathyroid autoantigen

    Mohammad Alimohammadi;Peyman Björklund;Åsa Hallgren;Nora Pöntynen

  • A common mutation in Sardinian autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal dystrophy patients

    M. C. Rosatelli;A. Meloni;M. Devoto;A. Cao

  • Loss-of-function germline GATA2 mutations in patients with MDS/AML or MonoMAC syndrome and primary lymphedema reveal a key role for GATA2 in the lymphatic vasculature

    Jan Kazenwadel;Genevieve A. Secker;Yajuan J. Liu;Jill A. Rosenfeld

  • Autoantigen-specific interactions with CD4(+) thymocytes control mature medullary thymic epithelial cell cellularity

    Magali Irla;Stéphanie Hugues;Jason Gill;Takeshi Nitta

  • Medullary thymic epithelial cells expressing Aire represent a unique lineage derived from cells expressing claudin.

    Yoko Hamazaki;Harumi Fujita;Takashi Kobayashi;Yongwon Choi

  • The autoimmune regulator protein has transcriptional transactivating properties and interacts with the common coactivator CREB-binding protein.

    Jukka Pitkänen;Vassilis Doucas;Thomas Sternsdorf;Toshihiro Nakajima

  • Insertion of β-satellite repeats identifies a transmembrane protease causing both congenital and childhood onset autosomal recessive deafness

    Hamish S. Scott;Hamish S. Scott;Jun Kudoh;Marie Wattenhofer;Kazunori Shibuya

Frequent Co-Authors

Stylianos E. Antonarakis
Stylianos E. Antonarakis University of Geneva
Pärt Peterson
Pärt Peterson University of Tartu
Colette Rossier
Colette Rossier University of Geneva
Jun Kudoh
Jun Kudoh Keio University
John J. Hopwood
John J. Hopwood University of Adelaide
Timothy P. Hughes
Timothy P. Hughes South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute
Michel Guipponi
Michel Guipponi University of Geneva
Nobuyoshi Shimizu
Nobuyoshi Shimizu Keio University
Gordon K. Smyth
Gordon K. Smyth Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Kai Krohn
Kai Krohn Tampere University

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