Browsing by Author "Calafell i Majó, Francesc"

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  • Casals López, Ferran; Rasal Soteras, Raquel; Anglada Busquets, Roger; Tormo, Marc; Bonet, Núria; Rivas, Nury; Vásquez, Patricia; Calafell i Majó, Francesc (Elsevier, 2021)
    We have genotyped the 58 STRs (27 autosomal, 24 Y-STRs and 7 X-STRs) and 94 autosomal SNPs in Illumina ForenSeq™ Primer Mix A in a sample of 248 men and 143 women from El Salvador, Central America. Regional division (Centro, ...
  • Sikora, Martin, 1976-; Laayouni, Hafid, 1968-; Calafell i Majó, Francesc; Comas, David, 1969-; Bertranpetit, Jaume, 1952- (Nature Publishing Group, 2011)
    Studies of large sets of SNP data have proven to be a powerful tool in the analysis of the genetic structure of human populations. In this work, we analyze genotyping data for 2,841 SNPs in 12 Sub-Saharan African populations, ...
  • Font-Porterias, Neus; Giménez, Aaron; Carballo Mesa, Annabel; Calafell i Majó, Francesc; Comas, David, 1969- (Frontiers, 2021)
    Genetic patterns of inter-population variation are a result of different demographic and adaptive histories, which gradually shape the frequency distribution of the variants. However, the study of clinically relevant ...
  • Moreno Estrada, Andrés; Aparicio i Prat, Estel, 1986-; Sikora, Martin, 1976-; Engelken, Johannes; Ramírez Soriano, Anna; Calafell i Majó, Francesc; Bosch Fusté, Elena (BioMed Central, 2010)
    Background: The human FOXI1 gene codes for a transcription factor involved in the physiology of the inner ear, testis, and kidney. Using three interspecies comparisons, it has been suggested that this may be a gene ...
  • Solé Morata, Neus, 1988-; Villaescusa, Patricia; García-Fernández, Carla; Font-Porterias, Neus; Illescas, María José; Valverde, Laura; Tassi, Francesca; Ghirotto, Silvia; Férec, Claude; Rouault, Karen; Jiménez-Moreno, Susana; Martínez-Jarreta, Begoña; Pinheiro, María Fátima; Zarrabeitia, María T.; Carracedo, Ángel; Pancorbo, Marian M. de; Calafell i Majó, Francesc (Nature Publishing Group, 2017)
    Haplogroup R1b-M269 comprises most Western European Y chromosomes; of its main branches, R1b-DF27 is by far the least known, and it appears to be highly prevalent only in Iberia. We have genotyped 1072 R1b-DF27 chromosomes ...
  • Zalloua, Pierre A.; Collins, Catherine J.; Gosling, Anna; Biagini, Simone Andrea, 1983-; Costa, Benjamí; Kardailsky, Olga; Nigro, Lorenzo; Khalil, Wissam; Calafell i Majó, Francesc; Matisoo Smith, Elizabeth (Nature Research, 2018)
    Ibiza was permanently settled around the 7th century BCE by founders arriving from west Phoenicia. The founding population grew significantly and reached its height during the 4th century BCE. We obtained nine complete ...
  • Platt, Daniel E.; Artinian, Hovig; Mouzaya, Francis; Khalil, Wissam; Kamar, François G.; Matisoo Smith, Elizabeth; Calafell i Majó, Francesc; Taleb, Nassim Nicolas; Zalloua, Pierre A. (Nature Research, 2021)
    Currently, there are 18 different religious communities living in Lebanon. While evolving primarily within Lebanon, these communities show a level of local isolation as demonstrated previously from their Y-haplogroup ...
  • García Fernández, Carla (2021-12-17)
    Europe is a rich combination of diversities, cultures, and populations. Roma is the largest ethnic minority of Europe, accounting for an estimated >10 million citizens, although no official census is available. In this ...
  • Garcia Etxebarria, Koldo; García Garcerà, Marc; Calafell i Majó, Francesc (BioMed Central, 2014)
    Background: Metagenomics is the genomic study of uncultured environmental samples, which has been greatly facilitated by the advent of shotgun-sequencing technologies. One of the main focuses of metagenomics is the discovery ...
  • Bosch Fusté, Elena; Laayouni, Hafid, 1968-; Morcillo Suárez, Carlos, 1969-; Casals López, Ferran; Moreno Estrada, Andrés; Ferrer Admetlla, Anna; Gardner, Michelle; Rosa, Araceli; Comas, David, 1969-; Graffelman, Jan; Calafell i Majó, Francesc; Bertranpetit, Jaume, 1952- (BioMed Central, 2009)
    Background: It is well known that the pattern of linkage disequilibrium varies between human populations, with remarkable geographical stratification. Indirect association studies routinely exploit linkage disequilibrium ...
  • Dzunková, Mária; García Garcerà, Marc; Martínez Priego, Llúcia; D'Auria, Giussepe; Calafell i Majó, Francesc; Moya, Andrés (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014)
    The large amount of DNA needed to prepare a library in next generation sequencing protocols hinders direct sequencing of small DNA samples. This limitation is usually overcome by the enrichment of such samples with whole ...
  • Font-Porterias, Neus; Arauna, Lara R; Poveda, Alaitz; Bianco, Erica; Rebato, Esther; Prata, Maria Joao; Calafell i Majó, Francesc; Comas, David, 1969- (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019)
    The Roma population is the largest transnational ethnic minority in Europe, characterized by a linguistic, cultural and historical heterogeneity. Comparative linguistics and genetic studies have placed the origin of European ...
  • Aizpurua-Iraola, Julen; Giménez, Aaron; Carballo Mesa, Annabel; Calafell i Majó, Francesc; Comas, David, 1969- (Nature Research, 2022)
    The Roma are the largest ethnic minority in Europe. With a Northwestern Indian origin around ~ 1.5 kya, they travelled throughout West Asia until their arrival in Europe around the eleventh century CE. Their diaspora through ...
  • García Garcerà, Marc; Gigli, Elena, 1978-; Sánchez Quinto, Federico A, 1985-; Ramírez, Oscar; Calafell i Majó, Francesc; Civit, Sergi; Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965- (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2011)
    Background: Despite the successful retrieval of genomes from past remains, the prospects for human palaeogenomics remain unclear because of the difficulty of distinguishing contaminant from endogenous DNA sequences. Previous ...
  • Casals López, Ferran; Sikora, Martin, 1976-; Laayouni, Hafid, 1968-; Montanucci, Ludovica, 1978-; Muntasell i Castellví, Aura, 1972-; Lazarus, Ross; Calafell i Majó, Francesc; Awadalla, Philip; Netea, Mihai G; Bertranpetit, Jaume, 1952- (BioMed Central, 2011)
    Background: Pathogens have represented an important selective force during the adaptation of modern human populations to changing social and other environmental conditions. The evolution of the immune system has therefore ...
  • Bekada, Asmahan; Arauna, Lara R; Deba, Tahria; Calafell i Majó, Francesc; Benhamamouch, Soraya; Comas, David, 1969- (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015)
    The demographic history of human populations in North Africa has been characterized by complex processes of admixture and isolation that have modeled its current gene pool. Diverse genetic ancestral components with different ...
  • Mendizábal Eceizabarrena, Isabel, 1981-; Sandoval Mendoza, Karla; Berniell Lee, Gemma; Calafell i Majó, Francesc; Salas, Antonio; Martínez Fuentes, Antonio; Comas, David, 1969- (BioMed Central, 2008)
    Background: Before the arrival of Europeans to Cuba, the island was inhabited by two Native American groups, the Tainos and the Ciboneys. Most of the present archaeological, linguistic and ancient DNA evidence indicates a ...
  • Flores Bello, André, 1992-; Bauduer, Frédéric; Salaberria, Jasone; Oyharçabal, Bernard; Calafell i Majó, Francesc; Bertranpetit, Jaume, 1952-; Quintana Murci, Lluis; Comas, David, 1969- (Elsevier, 2021)
    Basques have historically lived along the Western Pyrenees, in the Franco-Cantabrian region, straddling the current Spanish and French territories. Over the last decades, they have been the focus of intense research due ...
  • Kalaydjieva, Luba; Gresham, David; Calafell i Majó, Francesc (BioMed Central, 2001)
    Background: Data provided by the social sciences as well as genetic research suggest that the 8-10 million Roma (Gypsies) who live in Europe today are best described as a conglomerate of genetically isolated founder ...
  • González Neira, Anna; Calafell i Majó, Francesc; Navarro i Cuartiellas, Arcadi, 1969-; Lao Grueso, Oscar, 1976-; Cann, Howard M.; Comas, David, 1969-; Bertranpetit, Jaume, 1952- (BioMed Central, 2004)
    Recent studies of haplotype diversity in a number of genomic regions have suggested that long stretches of DNA are preserved in the same chromosome, with little evidence of recombination events. The knowledge of the extent ...

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