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  • A common genetic origin for early farmers from mediterranean cardial and central european LBK cultures
    Olalde Marquínez, Íñigo, 1987-; Lobón, Irene; Ramírez, Oscar; Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975-; Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965- (Oxford University Press, 2015)
    The spread of farming out of the Balkans and into the rest of Europe followed two distinct routes: An initial expansion represented by the Impressa and Cardial traditions, which followed the Northern Mediterranean coastline; ...
  • Adressing Neandertal evolutionary genetics at three different resolution levels : admixture with modern humans, demography and social structure
    Sánchez Quinto, Federico A, 1985- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014-11-28)
    Almost 20 years of Neandertal paleogenetics studies have significantly increased our knowledge about their evolutionary history. The analysis of DNA recovered from Neandertal remains to date, suggest that although they ...
  • Analysis of co-ancestry links in modern and ancient human populations
    Ferrando-Bernal, Manuel, 1990- (2021-09-27)
    The aim of this thesis is to apply Identity by Descent (IBD) methodology to identify ancestry connections among individuals from genetically similar populations. Recombination events diminish the likelihood to detect IBDs. ...
  • Analysis of structural diversity in wolf-like canids reveals post-domestication variants
    Ramírez, Oscar; Olalde Marquínez, Íñigo, 1987-; Berglund, Jonas; Lorente-Galdós, Belén, 1981-; Hernández Rodríguez, Jéssica, 1983-; Quilez Oliete, Javier; Webster, Matthew T; Wayne, Robert K.; Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965-; Vilà, Carles; Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975- (BioMed Central, 2014)
    Background: Although a variety of genetic changes have been implicated in causing phenotypic differences among dogs, the role of copy number variants (CNVs) and their impact on phenotypic variation is still poorly understood. ...
  • Ancient gene flow from early modern humans into Eastern Neanderthals
    Kuhlwilm, Martin; Prado Martínez, Javier, 1987-; Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965-; Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975-; Castellano Hereza, Sergi (Nature Research, 2016)
    It has been shown that Neanderthals contributed genetically to modern humans outside Africa 47,000-65,000 years ago. Here we analyse the genomes of a Neanderthal and a Denisovan from the Altai Mountains in Siberia together ...
  • Derived immune and ancestral pigmentation alleles in a 7,000-year-old Mesolithic European
    Olalde Marquínez, Íñigo, 1987-; Sánchez Quinto, Federico A, 1985-; Santpere Baró, Gabriel, 1981-; Rodríguez Pérez, Juan Antonio, 1985-; Quilez Oliete, Javier; Ramírez, Oscar; Marigorta, Urko M.; Fernández Callejo, Marcos; Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975-; Navarro i Cuartiellas, Arcadi, 1969-; Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965- (Nature Research, 2014)
    Ancient genomic sequences have started to reveal the origin and the demographic impact of farmers from the Neolithic period spreading into Europe. The adoption of farming, stock breeding and sedentary societies during the ...
  • Differential DNA methylation of vocal and facial anatomy genes in modern humans
    Gokhman, David; García Pérez, Raquel, 1989-; Lizano González, Esther, 1974-; Ferrando-Bernal, Manuel, 1990-; Gelabert Xirinachs, Pere, 1991-; Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965-; Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975-; Carmel, Liran (Nature Research, 2020)
    Changes in potential regulatory elements are thought to be key drivers of phenotypic divergence. However, identifying changes to regulatory elements that underlie human-specific traits has proven very challenging. Here, ...
  • Enamel proteome shows that Gigantopithecus was an early diverging pongine
    Welker, Frido; Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín; Kuhlwilm, Martin; Liao, Wei; Gutenbrunner, Petra; de Manuel, Marc; Samodova, Diana; Mackie, Meaghan; Allentoft, Morten E.; Bacon, Anne-Marie; Collins, Matthew J.; Cox, Jürgen; Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965-; Olsen, Jesper V.; Demeter, Fabrice; Wang, Wei; Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975-; Cappellini, Enrico (Nature Research, 2019)
    Gigantopithecus blacki was a giant hominid that inhabited densely forested environments of Southeast Asia during the Pleistocene epoch1. Its evolutionary relationships to other great ape species, and the divergence of these ...
  • Evolutionary and functional impact of common polymorphic inversions in the human genome
    Giner Delgado, Carla; Villatoro, Sergi; Lerga Jaso, Jon; Gayà Vidal, Magdalena; Oliva, Meritxell; Castellano Esteve, David; Pantano Rubiño, Lorena, 1982-; Bitarello, Bárbara D.; Izquierdo, David; Noguera, Isaac; Olalde Marquínez, Íñigo, 1987-; Delprat, Alejandra; Blancher, Antoine; Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965-; Esko, Tõnu; O'Reilly, Paul F.; Andrés Morán, Aida, 1976-; Ferretti, Luca; Puig, Marta; Cáceres Aguilar, Mario (Nature Research, 2019)
    Inversions are one type of structural variants linked to phenotypic differences and adaptation in multiple organisms. However, there is still very little information about polymorphic inversions in the human genome due to ...
  • Evolutionary genetics of homo neanderthalensis :adaptive traits and methodological problems
    Gigli, Elena (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2011-06-20)
    The evolutionary history of H. neanderthalensis, interwoven with that of H. sapiens, has always fascinated the scientific world. Recent adavncess in paleogenetics shedds new light on the phylogenetic relationship between ...
  • Evolutionary history, genomic adaptation to toxic diet, and extinction of the Carolina Parakeet
    Gelabert Xirinachs, Pere, 1991-; Serres Armero, Aitor, 1992-; de Manuel, Marc; Renom, Pere; de Dios, Toni; Ferrando-Bernal, Manuel, 1990-; Navarro i Cuartiellas, Arcadi, 1969-; Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975-; Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965- (Elsevier, 2020)
    As the only endemic neotropical parrot to have recently lived in the northern hemisphere, the Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) was an iconic North American bird. The last surviving specimen died in the Cincinnati ...
  • Extreme population differences in the human zinc transporter ZIP4 (SLC39A4) are explained by positive selection in Sub-Saharan Africa
    Engelken, Johannes; Carnero-Montoro, Elena, 1985-; Pybus Oliveras, Marc, 1985-; Andrews, Glen K.; Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965-; Comas, David, 1969-; Sekler, Israel; de la Rasilla, Marco; Rosas, Antonio; Stoneking, Mark; Valverde, M. A. (Miguel Ángel), 1963-; Vicente García, Rubén, 1978-; Bosch Fusté, Elena (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014)
    Extreme differences in allele frequency between West Africans and Eurasians were observed for a leucine-to-valine substitution (Leu372Val) in the human intestinal zinc uptake transporter, ZIP4, yet no further evidence was ...
  • Fragmentation of contaminant and endogenous dna in ancient samples determined by shotgun sequencing; prospects for human palaeogenomics
    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 ...
  • From the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age: unraveling 5.000 years of European population history with paleogenomics
    Olalde Marquínez, Íñigo, 1987- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016-07-22)
    The general objective of this thesis is to use ancient genomic data to study the European prehistory. Thanks to the latest advances in DNA sequencing technologies, the field of ancient DNA has suffered a profound transformation ...
  • Genetic affinities of an eradicated European Plasmodium falciparum strain
    de Dios, Toni; van Dorp, Lucy; Gelabert Xirinachs, Pere, 1991-; Carøe, Christian; Sandoval Velasco, Marcela; Fregel, Rosa; Escosa, Raül; Aranda, Carles; Huijben, Silvie; Balloux, François; Gilbert, M Thomas; Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965- (Microbiology Society, 2019)
    Malaria was present in most of Europe until the second half of the 20th century, when it was eradicated through a combination of increased surveillance and mosquito control strategies, together with cross-border and political ...
  • Genetic Analysis of the prehistoic peopling of Western Europe: Ancient DNA the role of contamination
    Sampietro Bergua, Mª Lourdes (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2007-01-19)
    In this thesis we have addressed three different although related topics. First, we studied the post-mortem mutation damage rate of contaminated DNA sequences in ancient human remains focusing on the development of strategies ...
  • Genetic characterization of the ABO blood group in Neandertals
    Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965-; Gigli, Elena, 1978-; Rasilla Vives, Marco de la; Fortea, Javier; Rosas, Antonio; Bertranpetit, Jaume, 1952-; Krause, Johannes (BioMed Central, 2008)
    Background: The high polymorphism rate in the human ABO blood group gene seems to be related to susceptibility to different pathogens. It has been estimated that all genetic variation underlying the human ABO alleles ...
  • Genetic data from the extinct giant rat from Tenerife (Canary Islands) points to a recent divergence from mainland relatives
    Renom, Pere; Dios Martínez, Toni de, 1994-; Civit, Sergi; Llovera Nadal, Laia; Sánchez-Gracia, Alejandro; Lizano González, Esther, 1974-; Rando, Juan Carlos; Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975-; Kergoat, Gael J.; Casanovas-Vilar, Isaac; Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965- (Royal Society, 2021)
    Evolution of vertebrate endemics in oceanic islands follows a predictable pattern, known as the island rule, according to which gigantism arises in originally small-sized species and dwarfism in large ones. Species of ...
  • Genome-wide data from the Bubi of Bioko Island clarifies the Atlantic fringe of the Bantu dispersal
    Gelabert Xirinachs, Pere, 1991-; Ferrando-Bernal, Manuel, 1990-; de Dios, Toni; Mattorre, Benedetta; Campoy, Elena; Gorostiza, Amaya; Patin, Etienne; González Martín, Antonio; Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965- (BioMed Central, 2019)
    Background: Bioko is one of the few islands that exist around Africa, the most genetically diverse continent on the planet. The native Bantu-speaking inhabitants of Bioko, the Bubi, are believed to have colonized the island ...
  • Genomic affinities of two 7,000-year-old Iberian hunter-gatherers
    Sánchez Quinto, Federico A, 1985-; Schroeder, Hannes; Ramírez, Oscar; Ávila Arcos, María C.; Pybus Oliveras, Marc, 1985-; Olalde Marquínez, Íñigo, 1987-; Velázquez, Amhed M.V.; Prada Marcos, María Encina; Vidal Encinas, Julio Manuel; Bertranpetit, Jaume, 1952-; Orlando, Ludovic; Gilbert, M Thomas; Lalueza Fox, Carles, 1965- (Elsevier, 2012)
    The genetic background of the European Mesolithic and the extent of population replacement during the Neolithic is poorly understood, both due to the scarcity of human remains from that period and the inherent methodological ...