Gravida Associate Investigator Dr Erin Macaulay was the lead author on a paper published in PLOS One. The paper titled ‘Retrotransposon Hypomethylation in Melanoma and Expression of a Placenta-Specific Gene’, looked at the hypomethylation of the placental-specific KCNH5 promoter which is frequently associated with KCNH5 expression in melanoma cells. The study was funded by Gravida and the University of Otago. The full paper is available here.