Overview
Background
Fleur Garton is a researcher focused on improving outcomes for those with a neurological disease. She completed a Bachelor of Applied Science (Hons I) in 2008 at the University of Sydney. Pursing an interest in the molecular basis of skeletal muscle function she completed her honours and PhD at the Institute of Neuroscience and Muscle research at the Children’s Hospital Westmead. Fleur spent two-years as post-doctoral researcher at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne. She was responsible for modelling the effect of gene dosage using rAAV vectors while helping to contribute to studies on human performance and health. In 2016, Fleur moved to work with Professor Naomi Wray at the Program in Complex Trait Genomics team at the University of Queensland. She was awarded a Bill Gole MND Postdoctoral fellowship from MNDRA in 2016, an NHMRC Early Career Researcher Fellowship (2017-2022) and is now the Scott Sullivan MND Research Fellow (2022). Her research program aims to further understand the genetic mechanisms of motor neurone disease (MND/ALS) using novel genomics analyses. This includes investigations into the use of cell-free DNA and other 'omic data to improve diagnosis and treatment. Fleur currently has research projects running at the Royal Brisbane Womens Hospital and the Mater Hospital together with local and international collaborators. Any potential participants or collaborators are encouraged to contact her on email about these projects.
Availability
- Dr Fleur Garton is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Sydney
Research interests
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Motor Neurone Disease
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Genetic variants influencing performance
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Neuromuscular Disease
Works
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2023
Conference Publication
Non-invasive biomarker discovery in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Caggiano, Christa, Morselli, Marco, Celona, Barbara, Henderson, Robert, Lomen-Hoerth, Catherine, Garton, Fleur, Pellegrini, Matteo and Zaitlen, Noah (2023). Non-invasive biomarker discovery in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 55th European Society of Human Genetics (ESHG) Conference, Vienna, Austria, 11-14 June 2022. London, United Kingdom: Nature Publishing Group. doi: 10.1038/s41431-023-01338-4
2023
Journal Article
Case report: Adult-onset limb girdle muscular dystrophy in sibling pair due to novel homozygous LAMA2 missense variant
Katz, Matthew, Waddell, Leigh B., Yuen, Michaela, Bryen, Samantha J., Oates, Emily, Garton, Fleur C., Robertson, Thomas, Henderson, Robert David, Cooper, Sandra T. and McCombe, Pamela A. (2023). Case report: Adult-onset limb girdle muscular dystrophy in sibling pair due to novel homozygous LAMA2 missense variant. Frontiers in Neurology, 14 1055639, 1055639. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1055639
2022
Journal Article
Novel variants of ANO5 in two patients with limb girdle muscular dystrophy: Case Report
Katz, Matthew, Garton, Fleur C., Davis, Mark, Henderson, Robert D. and McCombe, Pamela A. (2022). Novel variants of ANO5 in two patients with limb girdle muscular dystrophy: Case Report. Frontiers in Neurology, 13 868655, 868655. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2022.868655
2022
Journal Article
Genome-wide study of DNA methylation shows alterations in metabolic, inflammatory, and cholesterol pathways in ALS
Hop, Paul J., Zwamborn, Ramona A.J., Hannon, Eilis, Shireby, Gemma L., Nabais, Marta F., Walker, Emma M., van Rheenen, Wouter, van Vugt, Joke J.F.A., Dekker, Annelot M., Westeneng, Henk-Jan, Tazelaar, Gijs H.P., van Eijk, Kristel R., Moisse, Matthieu, Baird, Denis, Al Khleifat, Ahmad, Iacoangeli, Alfredo, Ticozzi, Nicola, Ratti, Antonia, Cooper-Knock, Jonathan, Morrison, Karen E., Shaw, Pamela J., Basak, A. Nazli, Chiò, Adriano, Calvo, Andrea, Moglia, Cristina, Canosa, Antonio, Brunetti, Maura, Grassano, Maurizio, Gotkine, Marc ... Brain MEND Consortium (2022). Genome-wide study of DNA methylation shows alterations in metabolic, inflammatory, and cholesterol pathways in ALS. Science Translational Medicine, 14 (633) eabj0264, 1-15. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abj0264
2022
Journal Article
Functional characterisation of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis risk locus GPX3/TNIP1
Restuadi, Restuadi, Steyn, Frederik J., Kabashi, Edor, Ngo, Shyuan T., Cheng, Fei-Fei, Nabais, Marta F., Thompson, Mike J., Qi, Ting, Wu, Yang, Henders, Anjali K., Wallace, Leanne, Bye, Chris R., Turner, Bradley J., Ziser, Laura, Mathers, Susan, McCombe, Pamela A., Needham, Merrilee, Schultz, David, Kiernan, Matthew C., van Rheenen, Wouter, van den Berg, Leonard H., Veldink, Jan H., Ophoff, Roel, Gusev, Alexander, Zaitlen, Noah, McRae, Allan F., Henderson, Robert D., Wray, Naomi R., Giacomotto, Jean and Garton, Fleur C. (2022). Functional characterisation of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis risk locus GPX3/TNIP1. Genome Medicine, 14 (1) 7, 7. doi: 10.1186/s13073-021-01006-6
2021
Journal Article
Common and rare variant association analyses in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identify 15 risk loci with distinct genetic architectures and neuron-specific biology
van Rheenen, Wouter, van der Spek, Rick A. A., Bakker, Mark K., van Vugt, Joke J. F. A., Hop, Paul J., Zwamborn, Ramona A. J., de Klein, Niek, Westra, Harm-Jan, Bakker, Olivier B., Deelen, Patrick, Shireby, Gemma, Hannon, Eilis, Moisse, Matthieu, Baird, Denis, Restuadi, Restuadi, Dolzhenko, Egor, Dekker, Annelot M., Gawor, Klara, Westeneng, Henk-Jan, Tazelaar, Gijs H. P., van Eijk, Kristel R., Kooyman, Maarten, Byrne, Ross P., Doherty, Mark, Heverin, Mark, Al Khleifat, Ahmad, Iacoangeli, Alfredo, Shatunov, Aleksey, Ticozzi, Nicola ... SLAP Consortium (2021). Common and rare variant association analyses in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identify 15 risk loci with distinct genetic architectures and neuron-specific biology. Nature Genetics, 53 (12), 1636-1648. doi: 10.1038/s41588-021-00973-1
2021
Journal Article
Comprehensive cell type decomposition of circulating cell-free DNA with CelFiE
Caggiano, Christa, Celona, Barbara, Garton, Fleur, Mefford, Joel, Black, Brian L., Henderson, Robert, Lomen-Hoerth, Catherine, Dahl, Andrew and Zaitlen, Noah (2021). Comprehensive cell type decomposition of circulating cell-free DNA with CelFiE. Nature Communications, 12 (1) 2717. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-22901-x
2021
Journal Article
Polygenic risk score analysis for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis leveraging cognitive performance, educational attainment and schizophrenia
Restuadi, Restuadi, Garton, Fleur C., Benyamin, Beben, Lin, Tian, Williams, Kelly L., Vinkhuyzen, Anna, van Rheenen, Wouter, Zhu, Zhihong, Laing, Nigel G., Mather, Karen A., Sachdev, Perminder S., Ngo, Shyuan T., Steyn, Frederik J., Wallace, Leanne, Henders, Anjali K., Visscher, Peter M., Needham, Merrilee, Mathers, Susan, Nicholson, Garth, Rowe, Dominic B., Henderson, Robert D., McCombe, Pamela A., Pamphlett, Roger, Blair, Ian P., Wray, Naomi R. and McRae, Allan F. (2021). Polygenic risk score analysis for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis leveraging cognitive performance, educational attainment and schizophrenia. European Journal of Human Genetics, 30 (5), 1-8. doi: 10.1038/s41431-021-00885-y
2021
Journal Article
Meta-analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation identifies shared associations across neurodegenerative disorders
Nabais, Marta F., Laws, Simon M., Lin, Tian, Vallerga, Costanza L., Armstrong, Nicola J., Blair, Ian P., Kwok, John B., Mather, Karen A., Mellick, George D., Sachdev, Perminder S., Wallace, Leanne, Henders, Anjali K., Zwamborn, Ramona A. J., Hop, Paul J., Lunnon, Katie, Pishva, Ehsan, Roubroeks, Janou A. Y., Soininen, Hilkka, Tsolaki, Magda, Mecocci, Patrizia, Lovestone, Simon, Kloszewska, Iwona, Vellas, Bruno, Furlong, Sarah, Garton, Fleur C., Henderson, Robert D., Mathers, Susan, McCombe, Pamela A., Needham, Merrilee ... McRae, Allan F. (2021). Meta-analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation identifies shared associations across neurodegenerative disorders. Genome Biology, 22 (1) 90, 1-30. doi: 10.1186/s13059-021-02275-5
2020
Journal Article
Genome-wide meta-analysis finds the ACSL5-ZDHHC6 locus is associated with ALS and links weight loss to the disease genetics
Iacoangeli, Alfredo, Lin, Tian, Al Khleifat, Ahmad, Jones, Ashley R., Opie-Martin, Sarah, Coleman, Jonathan R.I., Shatunov, Aleksey, Sproviero, William, Williams, Kelly L., Garton, Fleur, Restuadi, Restuadi, Henders, Anjali K., Mather, Karen A., Needham, Merilee, Mathers, Susan, Nicholson, Garth A., Rowe, Dominic B., Henderson, Robert, McCombe, Pamela A., Pamphlett, Roger, Blair, Ian P., Schultz, David, Sachdev, Perminder S., Newhouse, Stephen J., Proitsi, Petroula, Fogh, Isabella, Ngo, Shyuan T., Dobson, Richard J.B., Wray, Naomi R. ... Al-Chalabi, Ammar (2020). Genome-wide meta-analysis finds the ACSL5-ZDHHC6 locus is associated with ALS and links weight loss to the disease genetics. Cell Reports, 33 (4) 108323, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108323
2020
Journal Article
Cardiovascular disease, psychiatric diagnosis and sex‐differences in the multi‐step hypothesis of ALS
Garton, Fleur C., Trabjerg, Betina B., Wray, Naomi R. and Agerbo, Esben (2020). Cardiovascular disease, psychiatric diagnosis and sex‐differences in the multi‐step hypothesis of ALS. European Journal of Neurology, 28 (2) ene.14554, 421-429. doi: 10.1111/ene.14554
2020
Journal Article
Altered skeletal muscle glucose-fatty acid flux in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Steyn, Frederik J., Li, Rui, Kirk, Siobhan E., Tefera, Tesfaye W, Xie, Teresa Y., Tracey, Timothy J., Kelk, Dean, Wimberger, Elyse, Garton, Fleur C., Roberts, Llion, Chapman, Sarah E., Coombes, Jeff S., Leevy, W. Matthew, Ferri, Alberto, Valle, Cristiana, René, Frédérique, Loeffler, Jean-Philippe, McCombe, Pamela A., Henderson, Robert D. and Ngo, Shyuan T. (2020). Altered skeletal muscle glucose-fatty acid flux in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Brain Communications, 2 (2) fcaa154, fcaa154. doi: 10.1093/braincomms/fcaa154
2020
Journal Article
What do we know about the variability in survival of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?
McCombe, Pamela A., Garton, Fleur C., Katz, Matthew, Wray, Naomi R. and Henderson, Robert D. (2020). What do we know about the variability in survival of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis?. Expert Review of Neurotherapeutics, 20 (9), 921-941. doi: 10.1080/14737175.2020.1785873
2020
Journal Article
Mutations in heat shock protein beta-1 (HSPB1) are associated with a range of clinical phenotypes related to different patterns of motor neuron dysfunction: a case series
Katz, Matthew, Davis, Mark, Garton, Fleur C., Henderson, Robert, Bharti, Vanda, Wray, Naomi and McCombe, Pamela (2020). Mutations in heat shock protein beta-1 (HSPB1) are associated with a range of clinical phenotypes related to different patterns of motor neuron dysfunction: a case series. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 413 116809, 116809. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2020.116809
2020
Journal Article
Significant out-of-sample classification from methylation profile scoring for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Nabais, Marta F., Lin, Tian, Benyamin, Beben, Williams, Kelly L., Garton, Fleur C., Vinkhuyzen, Anna A. E., Zhang, Futao, Vallerga, Costanza L., Restuadi, Restuadi, Freydenzon, Anna, Zwamborn, Ramona A. J., Hop, Paul J., Robinson, Matthew R., Gratten, Jacob, Visscher, Peter M., Hannon, Eilis, Mill, Jonathan, Brown, Matthew A., Laing, Nigel G., Mather, Karen A., Sachdev, Perminder S., Ngo, Shyuan T., Steyn, Frederik J., Wallace, Leanne, Henders, Anjali K., Needham, Merrilee, Veldink, Jan H., Mathers, Susan, Nicholson, Garth ... Wray, Naomi R. (2020). Significant out-of-sample classification from methylation profile scoring for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. npj Genomic Medicine, 5 (1) 10, 1-9. doi: 10.1038/s41525-020-0118-3
2020
Journal Article
ALS in Danish Registries : Heritability and links to psychiatric and cardiovascular disorders
Trabjerg, Betina B., Garton, Fleur C., van Rheenen, Wouter, Fang, Fang, Henderson, Robert D., Mortensen, Preben Bo, Agerbo, Esben and Wray, Naomi R. (2020). ALS in Danish Registries : Heritability and links to psychiatric and cardiovascular disorders. Neurology Genetics, 6 (2) e398, e398. doi: 10.1212/nxg.0000000000000398
2020
Journal Article
Progression and survival of patients with motor neuron disease relative to their fecal microbiota
Ngo, Shyuan T., Restuadi, Restuadi, McCrea, Allan F., Van Eijk, Ruben P., Garton, Fleur, Henderson, Robert D., Wray, Naomi R., McCombe, Pamela A. and Steyn, Frederik J. (2020). Progression and survival of patients with motor neuron disease relative to their fecal microbiota. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration, 21 (7-8), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/21678421.2020.1772825
2020
Conference Publication
Estimating the rate of cell type degeneration from epigenetic sequencing of cell-free dna
Caggiano, Christa, Celona, Barbara, Garton, Fleur, Mefford, Joel, Black, Brian, Lomen-Hoerth, Catherine, Dahl, Andrew and Zaitlen, Noah (2020). Estimating the rate of cell type degeneration from epigenetic sequencing of cell-free dna. International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, Padua, Italy, 10-13 May 2020. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-45257-5_21
2019
Book Chapter
Αlpha- actinin- 3’s role in the genetic control of muscle strength and performance
Seto, Jane T., Garton, Fleur C., North, Kathryn N. and Houweling, Peter J. (2019). Αlpha- actinin- 3’s role in the genetic control of muscle strength and performance. Routledge Handbook of Sport and Exercise Systems Genetics. (pp. 323-344) edited by J. Timothy Lightfoot, Monica J. Hubal and Stephen M. Roth. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315146287-23
2018
Journal Article
The Effect of ACTN3 Gene Doping on Skeletal Muscle Performance
Garton, Fleur C., Houweling, Peter J., Vukcevic, Damjan, Meehan, Lyra R., Lee, Fiona X.Z., Lek, Monkol, Roeszler, Kelly N., Hogarth, Marshall W., Tiong, Chrystal F., Zannino, Diana, Yang, Nan, Leslie, Stephen, Gregorevic, Paul, Head, Stewart I., Seto, Jane T. and North, Kathryn N. (2018). The Effect of ACTN3 Gene Doping on Skeletal Muscle Performance. American Journal of Human Genetics, 102 (5), 845-857. doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2018.03.009
Funding
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Supervision
Availability
- Dr Fleur Garton is:
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Investigating the molecular basis of motor neurone disease using cell-free DNA
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Allan McRae, Professor Mark Midwinter
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Doctor Philosophy
Novel methods and data integration to understand the causes of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Allan McRae, Dr Jian Zeng
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Doctor Philosophy
Cell-free DNA methodology for diagnosis and monitoring progression in Motor Neurone Disease
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Allan McRae
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Doctor Philosophy
Genetic architecture and evolution of complex traits across populations in humans
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Peter Visscher, Professor Naomi Wray, Dr Jian Zeng
Media
Enquiries
Contact Dr Fleur Garton directly for media enquiries about:
- gene tests for athletic ability
- Genetics of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Motor Neuron Disease
- sport genetics
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