Dr Tracy O'Mara
Honorary Associate Professor
School of Biomedical Sciences
QIMR Berghofer
Journal Articles
Hazelwood, Emma, Canson, Daffodil M., Deslandes, Benedita, Wang, Xuemin, Kho, Pik Fang, Legge, Danny, Constantinescu, Andrei-Emil, Lee, Matthew A., Bishop, D. Timothy, Chan, Andrew T., Gruber, Stephen B., Hampe, Jochen, Le Marchand, Loic, Woods, Michael O., Pai, Rish K., Schmit, Stephanie L., Figueiredo, Jane C., Zheng, Wei, Huyghe, Jeroen R., Murphy, Neil, Gunter, Marc J., Richardson, Tom G., Whitehall, Vicki L. J., Vincent, Emma E., Glubb, Dylan M. and O’Mara, Tracy A. (2025). Multi-tissue expression and splicing data prioritise anatomical subsite- and sex-specific colorectal cancer susceptibility genes. Nature Communications, 16 (1) 5043, 1-13. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-60275-6
Stylianou, Cassie E., Wiggins, George A. R., Lau, Vanessa L., Dennis, Joe, Shelling, Andrew N., Wilson, Michelle, Sykes, Peter, Amant, Frederic, Annibali, Daniela, De Wispelaere, Wout, Easton, Douglas F., Fasching, Peter A., Glubb, Dylan M., Goode, Ellen L., Lambrechts, Diether, Pharoah, Paul D. P., Scott, Rodney J., Tham, Emma, Tomlinson, Ian, Bolla, Manjeet K., Couch, Fergus J., Czene, Kamila, Dörk, Thilo, Dunning, Alison M., Fletcher, Olivia, García-Closas, Montserrat, Hoppe, Reiner, ABCTB Investigators, Clarke, Christine ... Walker, Logan C. (2024). Germline copy number variants and endometrial cancer risk. Human Genetics, 143 (12), 1-18. doi: 10.1007/s00439-024-02707-9
Bouttle, Kelsie, Ingold, Nathan and O'Mara, Tracy A. (2024). Using Genetics to Investigate Relationships between Phenotypes: Application to Endometrial Cancer. Genes, 15 (7) 939, 1-18. doi: 10.3390/genes15070939
Haycock, Philip C, Borges, Maria Carolina, Burrows, Kimberley, Lemaitre, Rozenn N, Harrison, Sean, Burgess, Stephen, Chang, Xuling, Westra, Jason, Khankari, Nikhil K, Tsilidis, Kostas K, Gaunt, Tom, Hemani, Gibran, Zheng, Jie, Truong, Therese, O'Mara, Tracy A, Spurdle, Amanda B, Law, Matthew H, Slager, Susan L, Birmann, Brenda M, Saberi Hosnijeh, Fatemeh, Mariosa, Daniela, Amos, Christopher I, Hung, Rayjean J, Zheng, Wei, Gunter, Marc J, Davey Smith, George, Relton, Caroline and Martin, Richard M (2023). Design and quality control of large-scale two-sample Mendelian randomization studies. International Journal of Epidemiology, 52 (5), 1498-1521. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyad018
Tintle, Nathan, Rice, Terri, Cheng, Iona, Jenkins, Mark, Gallinger, Steve, Cornish, Alex J., Sud, Amit, Vijayakrishnan, Jayaram, Wrensch, Margaret, Johansson, Mattias, Norman, Aaron D., Klein, Alison, Clay-Gilmour, Alyssa, Franke, Andre, Ardisson Korat, Andres V., Wheeler, Bill, Nilsson, Björn, Smith, Caren, Heng, Chew-Kiat, Song, Ci, Riadi, David, Claus, Elizabeth B., Ellinghaus, Eva, Ostroumova, Evgenia, Hosnijeh,, de Vathaire, Florent, Cugliari, Giovanni, Matullo, Giuseppe, Oi-Lin Ng, Irene ... Martin, Richard M. (2023). The association between genetically elevated polyunsaturated fatty acids and risk of cancer. eBioMedicine, 91 104510. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2023.104510
Canson, Daffodil M., O’Mara, Tracy A., Spurdle, Amanda B. and Glubb, Dylan M. (2023). Splicing annotation of endometrial cancer GWAS risk loci reveals potentially causal variants and supports a role for NF1 and SKAP1 as susceptibility genes. Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, 4 (2) 100185, 1-7. doi: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2023.100185
Wang, Xuemin, Glubb, Dylan M. and O’Mara, Tracy A. (2023). Dietary factors and endometrial cancer risk: A Mendelian randomization study. Nutrients, 15 (3) 603, 1-11. doi: 10.3390/nu15030603
Canson, Daffodil M., Dumenil, Troy, Parsons, Michael T., O'Mara, Tracy A., Davidson, Aimee L., Okano, Satomi, Signal, Bethany, Mercer, Tim R., Glubb, Dylan M. and Spurdle, Amanda B. (2023). Erratum: The splicing effect of variants at branchpoint elements in cancer genes (Genetics in Medicine (2022) 24(2) (398–409), (S109836002105348X), (10.1016/j.gim.2021.09.020)). Genetics in Medicine, 25 (1), 166-166. doi: 10.1016/j.gim.2022.11.015
Wang, Xuemin, Glubb, Dylan M. and O'Mara, Tracy A. (2022). 10 Years of GWAS discovery in endometrial cancer: aetiology, function and translation. eBioMedicine, 77 103895, 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.103895
Canson, Daffodil M., Dumenil, Troy, Parsons, Michael T., O'Mara, Tracy A., Davidson, Aimee L., Okano, Satomi, Signal, Bethany, Mercer, Tim R., Glubb, Dylan M. and Spurdle, Amanda B. (2022). The splicing effect of variants at branchpoint elements in cancer genes. Genetics in Medicine, 24 (2), 398-409. doi: 10.1016/j.gim.2021.09.020
Johnatty, Sharon E., Stewart, Colin J. R., Smith, Deborah, Nguyen, Anthony, O’ Dwyer, John, O’Mara, Tracy A., Webb, Penelope M. and Spurdle, Amanda B. (2020). Co-existence of leiomyomas, adenomyosis and endometriosis in women with endometrial cancer. Scientific Reports, 10 (1) 3621. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-59916-1
Chen, Maxine M., O'Mara, Tracy A., Thompson, Deborah J., Painter, Jodie N., Attia, John, Black, Amanda, Brinton, Louise, Chanock, Stephen, Chen, Chu, Cheng, Timothy Ht, Cook, Linda S., Crous-Bou, Marta, Doherty, Jennifer, Friedenreich, Christine M., Garcia-Closas, Montserrat, Gaudet, Mia M., Gorman, Maggie, Haiman, Christopher, Hankinson, Susan E., Hartge, Patricia, Henderson, Brian E., Hodgson, Shirley, Holliday, Elizabeth G., Horn-Ross, Pamela L., Hunter, David J., Le Marchand, Loic, Liang, Xiaolin, Lissowska, Jolanta, Long, Jirong ... The Australian National Endometrial Cancer Study Group (ANECS) (2016). GWAS meta-analysis of 16 852 women identifies new susceptibility locus for endometrial cancer. Human Molecular Genetics, 25 (12), 2612-2620. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddw092
Conference Paper
O'Mara, Tracy A., Wang, Xuemin, Dossus, Laure, Gunter, Marc J., Crosbie, Emma J. and Glubb, Dylan M. (2024). Highlighting the combined effects of BMI and polygenic risk score on endometrial cancer risk. AACR Special Conference on Endometrial Cancer: Transforming Care through Science, Boston, MA United States, 16-18 November 2023. Philadelphia, PA United States: American Association for Cancer Research. doi: 10.1158/1557-3265.endo24-pr001