• Air pollution, residential greenness and metabolic dysfunction during early pregnancy in the INfancia y Medio Ambiente (INMA) Cohort

  Rammah, Amal; Whitworth, Kristina W.; Amos, Christopher I.; Estarlich, Marisa; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Ibarluzea, Jesús; Iñiguez, Carmen; Subiza-Pérez, Mikel; Vrijheid, Martine; Symanski, Elaine (MDPI, 2021)

  Despite extensive study, the role of air pollution in gestational diabetes remains unclear, and there is limited evidence of the beneficial impact of residential greenness on metabolic dysfunction during pregnancy. We used ...
• A transdisciplinary approach to recovering natural and cultural landscape and place identification: A case study of Can Moritz spring (Rubí, Spain)

  Cervera, Marina; Bell, Simon; Muñoz, Francesc; Mishra, Himansu S.; Fleming, Lora E.; Grellier, James; Carrasco Turigas, Glòria; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Vert Roca, Cristina, 1991-; Gascon Merlos, Mireia, 1984- (MDPI, 2021)

  The perception of the quality of green and blue spaces can be key in the relationship between a community and its local landscape (i.e., place identification). The lack of transdisciplinary training and social-specific ...
• Identifying chromosomal subpopulations based on their recombination histories advances the study of the genetic basis of phenotypic traits

  Ruiz Arenas, Carlos, 1990-; Cáceres, Alejandro; López, Marcos; Pelegrí-Sisó, Dolors; González, Josefa; González, Juan Ramón (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHL Press), 2020)

  Recombination is a main source of genetic variability. However, the potential role of the variation generated by recombination in phenotypic traits, including diseases, remains unexplored because there is currently no ...
• The EU Child Cohort Network's core data: establishing a set of findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable (FAIR) variables

  Pinot de Moira, Angela; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Vrijheid, Martine; LifeCycle Project Group (Springer, 2021)

  The Horizon2020 LifeCycle Project is a cross-cohort collaboration which brings together data from multiple birth cohorts from across Europe and Australia to facilitate studies on the influence of early-life exposures on ...
• Genomic footprints of activated telomere maintenance mechanisms in cancer

  Sieverling, Lina; Hong, Chen; Koser, Sandra D.; Ginsbach, Philip; Kleinheinz, Kortine; Hutter, Barbara; Braun, Delia M.; Cortés-Ciriano, Isidro; Xi, Ruibin; Kabbe, Rolf; Park, Peter J.; Eils, Roland; Schlesner, Matthias; PCAWG Structural Variation Working Group; Brors, Benedikt; Rippe, Karsten; Jones, David T. W.; Feuerbach, Lars; PCAWG Consortium; Ossowski, Stephan; Estivill, Xavier, 1955- (Nature Research, 2020)

  Cancers require telomere maintenance mechanisms for unlimited replicative potential. They achieve this through TERT activation or alternative telomere lengthening associated with ATRX or DAXX loss. Here, as part of the ...
• E2F6 initiates stable epigenetic silencing of germline genes during embryonic development

  Dahlet, Thomas; Truss, Matthias; Frede, Ute; Al Adhami, Hala; Bardet, Anaïs F.; Dumas, Michael; Vallet, Judith; Chicher, Johana; Hammann, Philippe; Kottnik, Sarah; Hansen, Peter; Luz, Uschi; Alvarez, Gonzalo; Auclair, Ghislain; Hecht, Jochen; Robinson, Peter N.; Hagemeier, Christian; Weber, Michael (Nature Research, 2021)

  In mouse development, long-term silencing by CpG island DNA methylation is specifically targeted to germline genes; however, the molecular mechanisms of this specificity remain unclear. Here, we demonstrate that the ...
• A RAC-GEF network critical for early intestinal tumourigenesis

  Pickering, Karen; Unal, E. Besray; Kiel, Christina; Serrano Pubull, Luis, 1982-; Sansom, Owen J. (Nature Research, 2021)

  RAC1 activity is critical for intestinal homeostasis, and is required for hyperproliferation driven by loss of the tumour suppressor gene Apc in the murine intestine. To avoid the impact of direct targeting upon homeostasis, ...
• Federated discovery and sharing of genomic data using Beacons

  Fiume, Marc; Rambla de Argila, Jordi; Torre, Sabela de la; Scollen, Serena (Nature Research, 2019)
• New privacy practices for blockchain software

  Bellés-Muñoz, Marta; Baylina, Jordi; Daza, Vanesa; Muñoz-Tapia, José L. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)

  In this article, we present the software tools we have implemented to bring complex privacy technologies closer to developers and to facilitate the implementation of privacyenabled blockchain applications
• How well do hate speech, toxicity, abusive and offensive language classification models generalize across datasets?

  Fortuna, Paula; Soler Company, Juan; Wanner, Leo (Elsevier, 2021)

  A considerable body of research deals with the automatic identification of hate speech and related phenomena. However, cross-dataset model generalization remains a challenge. In this context, we address two still open ...
• Arc-shaped pitch contours facilitate item recognition in non-human animals

  Toro Soto, Juan Manuel, 1976-; Crespo Bojorque, Paola, 1985- (Elsevier, 2021)

  Acoustic changes linked to natural prosody are a key source of information about the organization of language. Both human infants and adults readily take advantage of such changes to discover and memorize linguistic patterns. ...
• Spirometric phenotypes from early childhood to young adulthood: a Chronic Airway Disease Early Stratification study

  Wang, Gang; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Abellan, Alicia; García Aymerich, Judith; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Melén, Erik (UNLISTED PUBLISHER, 2021)

  Background: The prevalences of obstructive and restrictive spirometric phenotypes, and their relation to early-life risk factors from childhood to young adulthood remain poorly understood. The aim was to explore these ...
• Snoring and nocturnal reflux: association with lung function decline and respiratory symptoms

  Emilsson, Össur Ingi; Hägg, Shadi Amid; Lindberg, Eva; Franklin, Karl; Torén, Kjell; Benediktsdóttir, Bryndís; Aspelund, Thor; Gómez Real, Francisco; Leynaert, Bénédicte; Demoly, Pascal; Sigsgaard, Torben; Perret, Jennifer L.; Malinovschi, Andrei; Jarvis, Deborah; García Aymerich, Judith; Gislason, Thorarinn; Janson, Christer (European Respiratory Society, 2019)

  Introduction: The study aim was to examine the association of snoring and nocturnal gastro-oesophageal reflux (nGOR) with respiratory symptoms and lung function, and if snoring and/or nGOR associated with a steeper decline ...
• Maternal Mediterranean diet in pregnancy and newborn DNA methylation: a meta-analysis in the PACE Consortium

  Küpers, Leanne K.; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Nounu, Aayah; Friedman, Chloe; Fore, Ruby; Mancano, Giulia; Dabelea, Dana; Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl L.; Mulder, Rosa H.; Oken, Emily; Johnson, Laura; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.; Hivert, Marie-France; Starling, Anne P.; de Vries, Jeanne H. M.; Sharp, Gemma C.; Vrijheid, Martine; Felix, Janine Frédérique (Taylor & Francis, 2022)

  Higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet during pregnancy is related to a lower risk of preterm birth and to better offspring cardiometabolic health. DNA methylation may be an underlying biological mechanism. We evaluated ...
• Risk of child poverty and social exclusion in two Spanish regions: social and family determinants

  González, Llúcia; Estarlich, Marisa; Murcia, Mario; Larrañaga, Isabel; Barreto, Florencia B.; Santa-Marina, Loreto; Arranz, Enrique; Cirugeda, Lourdes; Simó, Sandra; Rebagliato, Marisa (Elsevier, 2020)

  Objective: Describe the risk of poverty and social exclusion in children aged 8-11 years from Gipuzkoa and Valencia (Spain), through AROPE (At Risk Of Poverty or Social Exclusion) indicators, and evaluate their associated ...
• Nonparticipation selection bias in the MOBI-Kids Study

  Turner, Michelle C.; Gracia-Lavedan, Esther; Langer, Chelsea Eastman; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Albert, Alex; Badia, Francesc; Carretero, Gema; Cardis, Elisabeth (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2019)

  Background: MOBI-Kids is a 14-country case-control study designed to investigate the potential effects of electromagnetic field exposure from mobile telecommunications devices on brain tumor risk in children and young ...
• Characterization of nuclear mitochondrial insertions in the whole genomes of primates

  Dayama, Gargi; Zhou, Weichen; Prado Martínez, Javier, 1987-; Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975-; Mills, Ryan E. (Oxford University Press, 2020)

  The transfer and integration of whole and partial mitochondrial genomes into the nuclear genomes of eukaryotes is an ongoing process that has facilitated the transfer of genes and contributed to the evolution of various ...
• Photorealistic style transfer for video

  Zabaleta, Itziar; Bertalmío, Marcelo (Elsevier, 2021)

  This work proposes an efficient example-based photorealistic style transfer algorithm for video. Given a source unprocessed video and a reference image color graded by an artist, we describe an automatic algorithm to ...
• Do not sound like an announcer: the emphasis strategy in commercials

  Rodero Antón, Emma; Potter, Robert F. (Wiley, 2021)

  Most consumers do not like the speech style that announcers use in marketing messages. The main reason is an exaggerated way of speaking with a strong emphasis. Indeed, announcers tend to stress too many words in commercials, ...
• Health impacts of fine particles under climate change mitigation, air quality control, and demographic change in India

  Dimitrova, Asya, 1988-; Marois, Guillaume; Kiesewetter, Gregor; K.C., Samir; Rafaj, Peter; Tonne, Cathryn (IOP Publishing Ltd., 2021)

  Despite low per capita emissions, with over a billion population, India is pivotal for climate change mitigation globally, ranking as the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases. We linked a previously published ...

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