• Restricted T cell receptor repertoire in CLL-like monoclonal B cell lymphocytosis and early stage CLL

  Blanco Ares, Gonzalo, 1989-; Vardi, Anna; Puiggros Metje, Anna Maria; Gómez-Llonín, Andrea; Muro, Manuel; Rodríguez-Rivera, María; Stalika, Evangelia; Abella Monreal, Eugenia; Gimeno Vázquez, Eva; López-Sánchez, Manuela; Senín, Alicia; Calvo, Xavier; Abrisqueta, Pau; Bosch José, Francesc Xavier, 1947-; Ferrer Del Alamo, Ana; Stamatopoulos, Kostas; Espinet Solà, Blanca (Taylor & Francis, 2018)

  Analysis of the T cell receptor (TR) repertoire of chronic lymphocytic leukemia-like monoclonal B cell lymphocytosis (CLL-like MBL) and early stage CLL is relevant for understanding the dynamic interaction of expanded B ...
• Prognostic value of the ESPEN consensus and guidelines for malnutrition: prediction of post-discharge clinical outcomes in older inpatients

  Sánchez-Rodríguez, María Dolores; Annweiler, Cédric; Ronquillo-Moreno, Natalia; Vázquez Ibar, Olga; Escalada, Ferran; Duran Jordà, Xavier, 1974-; Muniesa Portoles, Josep M.; Marco Navarro, Ester (Wiley, 2019)

  INTRODUCTION: Our study aimed to determine whether malnutrition and nutrition-related conditions using the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (ESPEN) consensus were associated with functional status, ...
• Dietary zinc and risk of prostate cancer in Spain: MCC-Spain Study

  Gutiérrez-González Enrique; Castelló, Adela; Fernández-Navarro, Pablo; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Llorca, Javier; Salas-Trejo, Dolores; Salcedo-Bellido, Inmaculada; Aragonés, Núria; Fernández-Tardón, Guillermo; Alguacil, Juan; Gracia Lavedan, Esther; García-Esquinas, Esther; Gómez-Acebo, Inés; Amiano, Pilar; Romaguera Bosch, Dora; Kogevinas, Manolis; Pollan, Marina; Pérez-Gómez, Beatriz (MDPI, 2018)

  Zinc is a key trace element in normal prostate cell metabolism, and is decreased in neoplastic cells. However, the association between dietary zinc and prostate cancer (PC) in epidemiologic studies is a conflicting one. ...
• Regulation of inflammatory functions of macrophages and T lymphocytes by NFAT5

  Aramburu, José (Aramburu Beltrán); López Rodríguez, M. Cristina (Frontiers, 2019)

  The transcription factor NFAT5, also known as TonEBP, belongs to the family of Rel homology domain-containing factors, which comprises the NF-κB proteins and the calcineurin-dependent NFAT1 to NFAT4. NFAT5 shares several ...
• The landscape of the non-canonical RNA-binding site of Gemin5 unveils a feedback loop counteracting the negative effect on translation

  Francisco-Velilla, Rosario; Fernández-Chamorro, Javier; Dotu, Ivan; Martinez Salas, Encarnación (Oxford University Press, 2018)

  Gemin5 is a predominantly cytoplasmic protein that downregulates translation, beyond controlling snRNPs assembly. The C-terminal region harbors a non-canonical RNA-binding site consisting of two domains, RBS1 and RBS2, ...
• In vivo activation of the SK channel in the spinal cord reduces the NMDA receptor antagonist dose needed to produce antinociception in an inflammatory pain model

  Hipótilo, Lucia; Fakira, Amanda K.; Cabañero Ferri, David; Blandón, Rebecca; Carlton, Susan M.; Morón, Jose A.; Melyan, Zara (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2015)

  N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonists have been shown to reduce mechanical hypersensitivity in animal models of inflammatory pain. However, their clinical use is associated with significant dose-limiting side ...
• Transcriptional diversity during lineage commitment of human blood progenitors

  Chen, Lu; Breschi, Alessandra, 1988-; Guigó Serra, Roderic; Palumbo, Emilio; Rendon, Augusto (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2014)

  Blood cells derive from hematopoietic stem cells through stepwise fating events. To characterize gene expression programs driving lineage choice, we sequenced RNA from eight primary human hematopoietic progenitor populations ...
• Absence of canonical marks of active chromatin in developmentally regulated genes

  Pérez-Lluch, Sílvia; Blanco, Enrique; Tilgner, Hagen, 1980-; Curado, Joao; Ruiz-Romero, Marina; Corominas Guiu, Montserrat; Guigó Serra, Roderic (Nature Research, 2015)

  The interplay of active and repressive histone modifications is assumed to have a key role in the regulation of gene expression. In contrast to this generally accepted view, we show that the transcription of genes temporally ...
• Advances in allergen-microarray technology for diagnosis and monitoring of allergy: The MeDALL allergen-chip

  Lupinek, Christian; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; Valenta, Rudolf (Elsevier, 2013)

  Allergy diagnosis based on purified allergen molecules provides detailed information regarding the individual sensitization profile of allergic patients, allows monitoring of the development of allergic disease and of the ...
• Functional network analysis reveals the relevance of SKIIP in the regulation of alternative splicing by p38 SAPK

  Carbonell Núñez, Caterina, 1987-; Ulsamer, Arnau; Vivori, Claudia, 1989-; Papasaikas, Panagiotis; Böttcher, René; Joaquin i Caudet, Manel; Miñana Gómez, Belén; Tejedor Vaquero, Juan Ramón, 1984-; Nadal Clanchet, Eulàlia de; Valcárcel, J. (Juan); Posas Garriga, Francesc (Elsevier, 2019)

  Alternative splicing is a prevalent mechanism of gene regulation that is modulated in response to a wide range of extracellular stimuli. Stress-activated protein kinases (SAPKs) play a key role in controlling several steps ...
• Pathogenic copy number variants that affect gene expression contribute to genomic burden in cerebral palsy

  Corbett, Mark A.; van Eyk, Clare L.; Webber, Dani L.; Bent, Stephen J.; Newman, Morgan; Harper, Kelly; Berry, Jesia G.; Azmanov, Dimitar N.; Woodward, Karen J.; Gardner, Alison E.; Slee, Jennie; Pérez Jurado, Luis Alberto; MacLennan, Alastair H.; Gecz, Jozef (Nature Research, 2018)

  Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most frequent movement disorder of childhood affecting 1 in 500 live births in developed countries. We previously identified likely pathogenic de novo or inherited single nucleotide variants (SNV) ...
• Strategies for integrated analysis in imaging genetics studies

  Vilor Tejedor, Natàlia, 1988-; Alemany, Silvia; Cáceres, Alejandro; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Pujol Martí, Jesús, 1981-; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; González Ruiz, Juan Ramón (Elsevier, 2018)

  Imaging Genetics (IG) integrates neuroimaging and genomic data from the same individual, deepening our knowledge of the biological mechanisms behind neurodevelopmental domains and neurological disorders. Although the ...
• Extracranial estimation of neural mass model parameters using the unscented kalman filter

  Escuain-Poole, Lara; García Ojalvo, Jordi; Pons, Antonio J. (Frontiers, 2018)

  Data assimilation, defined as the fusion of data with preexisting knowledge, is particularly suited to elucidating underlying phenomena from noisy/insufficient observations. Although this approach has been widely used in ...
• Recurrence-based information processing in gene regulatory networks

  Gabaldà Sagarra, Marçal,1988-; Carey, Lucas; García Ojalvo, Jordi (American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2018)

  Cellular information processing is generally attributed to the complex networks of genes and proteins that regulate cell behavior. It is still unclear, however, what are the main features of those networks that allow a ...
• Systems analysis reveals complex biological processes during virus infection fate decisions

  Argilaguet Marqués, Jordi, 1977-; Pedragosa Marín, Mireia, 1988-; Esteve-Codina, Anna; Riera Domínguez, María Graciela, 1987-; Vidal, Enric; Peligero Cruz, Cristina, 1986-; Casella, Valentina; Andreu Martínez, David; Kaisho, Tsuneyasu; Bocharov, Gennady A.; Ludewig, Burkhard; Heath, Simon; Meyerhans, Andreas (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHL Press), 2019)

  The processes and mechanisms of virus infection fate decisions that are the result of a dynamic virus-immune system interaction with either an efficient effector response and virus elimination or an alleviated immune ...
• Capturing variation impact on molecular interactions in the IMEx Consortium mutations data set

  Del Toro, N.; Piñero González, Janet, 1977-; Furlong, Laura I., 1971-; Porras, P.; IMEx Consortium Curators (Nature Research, 2019)

  The current wealth of genomic variation data identified at nucleotide level presents the challenge of understanding by which mechanisms amino acid variation affects cellular processes. These effects may manifest as distinct ...
• Low-frequency variation in TP53 has large effects on head circumference and intracranial volume

  Haworth, S.; Vrijheid, Martine; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; St. Pourcain, Beate (Nature Research, 2019)

  Cranial growth and development is a complex process which affects the closely related traits of head circumference (HC) and intracranial volume (ICV). The underlying genetic influences shaping these traits during the ...
• Germline variation at 8q24 and prostate cancer risk in men of European ancestry

  Matejcic, Marco; Kogevinas, Manolis; Haiman, Christopher A. (Nature Research, 2018)

  Chromosome 8q24 is a susceptibility locus for multiple cancers, including prostate cancer. Here we combine genetic data across the 8q24 susceptibility region from 71,535 prostate cancer cases and 52,935 controls of European ...
• Manic fringe deficiency imposes jagged1 addiction to intestinal tumor cells

  López Arribillaga, Erika; Rodilla, Verónica; Colomer Montañá, Carlota; Vert, Anna; Shelton, Amy; Cheng, Jason H.; Yan, Bing; González Pérez, Abel; Junttila, Melissa R.; Iglesias Coma, Mar; Torres, Ferran; Albanell Mestres, Joan; Villanueva, Alberto; Bigas Salvans, Anna; Siebel, Christian W.; Espinosa Blay, Lluís (Nature Research, 2018)

  Delta ligands regulate Notch signaling in normal intestinal stem cells, while Jagged1 activates Notch in intestinal adenomas carrying active β-catenin. We used the ApcMin/+ mouse model, tumor spheroid cultures, and ...
• Fine-mapping of prostate cancer susceptibility loci in a large meta-analysis identifies candidate causal variants

  Dadaev, Tokhir; Kogevinas, Manolis; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Kote-Jarai, Zsofia (Nature Research, 2018)

  Prostate cancer is a polygenic disease with a large heritable component. A number of common, low-penetrance prostate cancer risk loci have been identified through GWAS. Here we apply the Bayesian multivariate variable ...

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