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Contact Details

Phone
+64 3 470 3452
Email
david.markie@otago.ac.nz
Position
Senior Lecturer
Department
Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine (Dunedin)
Qualifications
BMedSc MB ChB PhD(Otago)
Research summary
Clinical biochemistry and Molecular genetics

Research

We have an interest in the identification, characterisation and functional analysis of genes that contribute to the development of colorectal cancer. This includes genes responsible for rare inherited predispositions to cancer, as well as genes that are defective in the more common sporadic forms of cancer.

Approaches to the study of these genes have included linkage analysis in Peutz-Jeghers syndrome pedigrees to identify the responsible gene, and mutation surveys of the DNA mismatch repair genes and the mitotic spindle checkpoint genes in a series of sporadic colorectal cancers. We are also using yeast systems to analyse the function of human DNA mismatch repair gene variants and applying functional genomics approaches to further understand the mitotic spindle checkpoint pathway.

Publications

Lu, X., Franz, E. A., Robertson, S. P., & Markie, D. (2026). Altered corpus callosum microstructure in people with non-syndromic congenital mirror movements (CMM). Clinical Neurophysiology, 186, 211861. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2026.2111861 Journal - Research Article

Jameson, E., Jenkins, Z. A., Feben, C., Gibson, K., Markie, D., Robertson, S. P., & Halliday, B. J. (2025). Familial Currarino syndrome caused by a deep intronic variant resulting in missplicing of MNX1. Rare, 3, 100104. doi: 10.1016/j.rare.2025.100104 Journal - Research Article

Rye, C. E., Puketapu-Watson, H., Wihongi, H., Te Aika, B., Macartney-Coxson, D., de Ligt, J., … Robertson, S. P., Halliday, B. J., Goodin, E., Markie, D. M., Lamont, A., & Wilcox, P. (2025). Rakeiora Genomics Platform: A pathfinder for genomic medicine research in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/03036758.2025.2469626 Journal - Research Article

Lu, X., Franz, E. A., Robertson, S. P., & Markie, D. (2024). Aberrant connectivity of the lateralized readiness system in non-syndromic Congenital Mirror Movements. Clinical Neurophysiology, 167, 61-73. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2024.08.018 Journal - Research Article

Halliday, B. J., Markie, D., Goodin, E., Black, M., Sporle, A., Watson, H., Wilcox, P., & Robertson, S. P. (2023, August). Detection and mitigation of microbiome DNA presence in saliva-derived whole genome sequence data. Verbal presentation at the Queenstown Molecular Biology (QMB) Genomics Satellite, Queenstown, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs

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