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Oliver Hofmann is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine.

Their research spans several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Oncology, Genetics, and Pathology and Forensic Medicine. The main topics of their work focus on Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Genomics and Rare Diseases, Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment, and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research.

Oliver Hofmann has published frequently in prominent venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Biotechnology, The American Journal of Human Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Nature Communications.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Sean M. Grimmond
  • Stephen B. Fox
  • Joseph H.A. Vissers
  • Richard W. Tothill
  • Catherine Mitchell

Among their recent papers are:

  • GA4GH: International policies and standards for data sharing across genomic research and healthcare (2021, Cell Genomics)
  • Whole-genome sequencing reveals new Alzheimer's disease-associated rare variants in loci related to synaptic function and neuronal development (2021, Alzheimer's & Dementia)
  • A first-in-class pan-lysyl oxidase inhibitor impairs stromal remodeling and enhances gemcitabine response and survival in pancreatic cancer (2023, Nature Cancer)
  • Scaling national and international improvement in virtual gene panel curation via a collaborative approach to discordance resolution (2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics)
  • Australian Genomics: Outcomes of a 5-year national program to accelerate the integration of genomics in healthcare (2023, The American Journal of Human Genetics)

Best Publications

  • Genomic analyses identify molecular subtypes of pancreatic cancer

    Bailey P;Chang Dk;Nones K;Nones K;Johns Al

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis

    Benjamin F. Voight;Benjamin F. Voight;Laura J. Scott;Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir;Andrew P. Morris

  • A promoter-level mammalian expression atlas

    Alistair R.R. Forrest;Hideya Kawaji;Michael Rehli;J. Kenneth Baillie

  • Identification of unique neoantigen qualities in long-term survivors of pancreatic cancer.

    Vinod P. Balachandran;Marta Łuksza;Julia N. Zhao;Vladimir Makarov

  • Aberrant lipid metabolism disrupts calcium homeostasis causing liver endoplasmic reticulum stress in obesity

    Suneng Fu;Ling Yang;Ping Li;Oliver Hofmann

  • Integrating human sequence data sets provides a resource of benchmark SNP and indel genotype calls

    Justin M Zook;Brad Alan Chapman;Jason Wang;David Mittelman

  • An Atlas of Combinatorial Transcriptional Regulation in Mouse and Man

    Timothy Ravasi;Harukazu Suzuki;Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci;Shintaro Katayama

  • Integrating sequencing datasets to form highly confident SNP and indel genotype calls for a whole human genome

    Justin M. Zook;Brad Chapman;Jason Wang;David Mittelman

  • Clonal dynamics of native haematopoiesis

    Jianlong Sun;Azucena Ramos;Brad Chapman;Jonathan B. Johnnidis

  • VarDict: a novel and versatile variant caller for next-generation sequencing in cancer research

    Zhongwu Lai;Aleksandra Markovets;Miika Ahdesmaki;Brad Chapman

  • miR-24 Inhibits Cell Proliferation by Targeting E2F2, MYC, and Other Cell-Cycle Genes via Binding to “Seedless” 3′UTR MicroRNA Recognition Elements

    Ashish Lal;Francisco Navarro;Christopher A. Maher;Laura E. Maliszewski

  • Novel Loci for Adiponectin Levels and Their Influence on Type 2 Diabetes and Metabolic Traits: A Multi-Ethnic Meta-Analysis of 45,891 Individuals

    Z Dastani;Hivert M-F.;Hivert M-F.;N Timpson;Perry Jrb.;Perry Jrb.

  • Toward interoperable bioscience data

    Susanna-Assunta Sansone;Philippe Rocca-Serra;Dawn Field;Eamonn Maguire

  • The transcriptional network that controls growth arrest and differentiation in a human myeloid leukemia cell line

    Harukazu Suzuki;Alistair R.R. Forrest;Erik Van Nimwegen;Carsten O. Daub

  • Copy number signatures and mutational processes in ovarian carcinoma

    Geoff Macintyre;Teodora E. Goranova;Dilrini De Silva;Darren Ennis

  • Genome-wide analysis of cancer/testis gene expression

    Oliver Hofmann;Oliver Hofmann;Otavia L. Caballero;Brian J. Stevenson;Brian J. Stevenson;Yao Tseng Chen

  • ISA software suite

    Philippe Rocca-Serra;Marco Brandizi;Eamonn Maguire;Eamonn Maguire;Nataliya Sklyar

  • Capture of MicroRNA–Bound mRNAs Identifies the Tumor Suppressor miR-34a as a Regulator of Growth Factor Signaling

    Ashish Lal;Marshall P. Thomas;Marshall P. Thomas;Gabriel Altschuler;Francisco Navarro;Francisco Navarro

  • BRENDA: a resource for enzyme data and metabolic information

    Ida Schomburg;Antje Chang;Oliver Hofmann;Christian Ebeling

Frequent Co-Authors

Winston Hide
Winston Hide Harvard Medical School
Sean M. Grimmond
Sean M. Grimmond University of Melbourne
Igor Rudan
Igor Rudan University of Edinburgh
Jesper Tegnér
Jesper Tegnér King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Benjamin F. Voight
Benjamin F. Voight University of Pennsylvania
Vladimir B. Bajic
Vladimir B. Bajic King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Soumya Raychaudhuri
Soumya Raychaudhuri Brigham and Women's Hospital
Ola Myklebost
Ola Myklebost University of Bergen

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