By Dr Amanda Willis

Journal articles

Young AL; Speechly C; Morrow A; Ross K; Murphy C; Poplawski N; Andrews L; Harris R; Kirk J; Tucker K; Jacobs C; Nguyen-Dumont T; Southey MC; Willis AM, 2025, 'Views of genetic health professionals, patients, and next of kin on retesting and recontact with results from updated genetic testing', Journal of Genetic Counseling, 34, pp. e70128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgc4.70128

Sheen D; Willis A; Fehlberg Z; Southey M; Goranitis I; Young M-A, 2025, 'Systematic review of preferences for additional findings from genomic testing.', Eur J Hum Genet, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41431-025-01968-w

Willis AM; Chiew F; Horsley P; Klumsathian S; Ling E; Jacobs C; Lacaze P; Tiller J; Young MA, 2025, 'Older research participants are motivated to receive genetic results for the benefit of younger relatives', European Journal of Human Genetics, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41431-025-01940-8

Fehlberg Z; Fisher L; Liu C; Kugenthiran N; Milne RL; Young MA; Willis A; Southey MC; Goranitis I; Best S, 2025, 'Using a behaviour-change approach to support uptake of population genomic screening and management options for breast or prostate cancer', European Journal of Human Genetics, 33, pp. 108 - 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41431-024-01729-1

Mitchell LA; Jivani K; Young MA; Jacobs C; Willis AM, 2024, 'Systematic review of the uptake and outcomes from returning secondary findings to adult participants in research genomic testing', Journal of Genetic Counseling, 33, pp. 1145 - 1158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgc4.1865

Morrow A; Speechly C; Young AL; Tucker K; Harris R; Poplawski N; Andrews L; Nguyen Dumont T; Kirk J; Southey MC; Willis A, 2024, '“Out of the blue”: A qualitative study exploring the experiences of women and next of kin receiving unexpected results from BRA-STRAP research gene panel testing', Journal of Genetic Counseling, 33, pp. 973 - 984, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgc4.1803

Yanes T; Wallingford CK; Young MA; McInerney-Leo AM; Willis AM; McKnight L; Terrill B; McInerny S; Forrest LE; Cicciarelli L; Williams R; Keane H; James PA, 2023, 'Development and evaluation of a novel educational program for providers on the use of polygenic risk scores', Genetics in Medicine, 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gim.2023.100876

Willis AM; Terrill B; Pearce A; McEwen A; Ballinger ML; Young MA, 2022, 'My Research Results: a program to facilitate return of clinically actionable genomic research findings', European Journal of Human Genetics, 30, pp. 363 - 366, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41431-021-00973-z

Southey MC; Dowty JG; Riaz M; Steen JA; Renault AL; Tucker K; Kirk J; James P; Winship I; Pachter N; Poplawski N; Grist S; Park DJ; Pope BJ; Mahmood K; Hammet F; Mahmoodi M; Tsimiklis H; Theys D; Rewse A; Willis A; Morrow A; Speechly C; Harris R; Sebra R; Schadt E; Lacaze P; McNeil JJ; Giles GG; Milne RL; Hopper JL; Nguyen-Dumont T, 2021, 'Population-based estimates of breast cancer risk for carriers of pathogenic variants identified by gene-panel testing', npj Breast Cancer, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41523-021-00360-3

McKnight L; Pearce A; Willis A; Young MA; Terrill B, 2021, 'Supporting teachers to use genomics as a context in the classroom: an evaluation of learning resources for high school biology', Journal of Community Genetics, 12, pp. 653 - 662, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12687-021-00550-3

Willis AM; Smith SK; Meiser B; James PA; Ballinger ML; Thomas DM; Yanes T; Young MA, 2021, 'Influence of lived experience on risk perception among women who received a breast cancer polygenic risk score: ‘Another piece of the pie’', Journal of Genetic Counseling, 30, pp. 849 - 860, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jgc4.1384

Yanes T; Willis AM; Meiser B; Tucker KM; Best M, 2019, 'Psychosocial and behavioral outcomes of genomic testing in cancer: a systematic review', European Journal of Human Genetics, 27, pp. 28 - 35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41431-018-0257-5

Willis AM; Smith SK; Meiser B; Ballinger ML; Thomas DM; Tattersall M; Young MA, 2018, 'Development and Pilot Testing of a Decision Aid for Genomic Research Participants Notified of Clinically Actionable Research Findings for Cancer Risk', Journal of Genetic Counseling, 27, pp. 1055 - 1066, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10897-018-0223-y

Sousa M; Peate M; Lewis C; Jarvis S; Willis A; Hickey M; Friedlander M, 2018, 'Exploring knowledge, attitudes and experience of genitourinary symptoms in women with early breast cancer on adjuvant endocrine therapy', European Journal of Cancer Care, 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecc.12820

Willis AM; Smith SK; Meiser B; Ballinger ML; Thomas DM; Young MA, 2017, 'Sociodemographic, psychosocial and clinical factors associated with uptake of genetic counselling for hereditary cancer: a systematic review', Clinical Genetics, 92, pp. 121 - 133, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cge.12868

Willis AM; Smith SK; Meiser B; Muller C; Lewis S; Halliday J, 2015, 'How do prospective parents prefer to receive information about prenatal screening and diagnostic testing?', Prenatal Diagnosis, 35, pp. 100 - 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pd.4493

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