• Epigenome-wide meta-analysis of blood DNA methylation in newborns and children identifies numerous loci related to gestational age

  Merid, Simon Kebede; Kogevinas, Manolis; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; Melén, Erik (BioMed Central, 2020)

  Background: Preterm birth and shorter duration of pregnancy are associated with increased morbidity in neonatal and later life. As the epigenome is known to have an important role during fetal development, we investigated ...
• Conjugacy properties of time-evolving Dirichlet and gamma random measures

  Papaspiliopoulos, Omiros; Ruggiero, Matteo; Spanò, Dario (The Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society, 2016)

  We extend classic characterisations of posterior distributions under Dirichlet process and gamma random measures priors to a dynamic framework. We consider the problem of learning, from indirect observations, two families ...
• Gut bacterial ClpB-like gene function is associated with decreased body weight and a characteristic microbiota profile

  Arnoriaga Rodríguez, María; Mayneris Perxachs, Jordi; Burokas, Aurelijus, 1982-; Pérez Brocal, Vicente; Moya, Andrés; Portero Otín, Manuel; Ricart, Wifredo; Maldonado, Rafael, 1961-; Fernández Real, Jose M. (BioMed Central, 2020)

  Background: The chaperone ClpB, a bacterial protein, is a conformational antigen-mimetic of α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (α-MSH) implicated in body weight regulation in mice. We here investigated the potential associations ...
• Personal exposure to particulate air pollution and vascular damage in peri-urban South India

  Ranzani, Otavio; Milà, Carles; Sanchez, Margaux; Bhogadi, Santhi; Kulkarni, Bharati; Balakrishnan, Kalpana; Sambandam, Sankar; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Marshall, Julian D.; Kinra, Sanjay; Tonne, Cathryn (Elsevier, 2020)

  Objective: Air pollution is a leading preventable risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Previous studies mostly relied on concentrations at residence, which might not represent personal exposure. Personal air pollution ...
• Cord blood DNA methylation reflects cord blood C-reactive protein levels but not maternal levels: a longitudinal study and meta-analysis

  Yeung, Edwina H.; Guan, Weihua; Zeng, Xuehuo; Salas Díaz, Lucas Andrés, 1980-; Mumford, Sunni L.; Prado Bert, Paula de; van Meel, Evelien R.; Malmberg, Anni; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Duijts, Liesbeth; Felix, Janine Frédérique; Czamara, Darina; Hämäläinen, Esa; Binder, Elisabeth B.; Räikkönen, Katri; Lahti, Jari; London, Stephanie J.; Silver, Robert M.; Schisterman, Enrique F. (BioMed Central, 2020)

  Background: Prenatal inflammation has been proposed as an important mediating factor in several adverse pregnancy outcomes. C-reactive protein (CRP) is an inflammatory cytokine easily measured in blood. It has clinical ...
• Attenuated epigenetic suppression of muscle stem cell necroptosis is required for efficient regeneration of dystrophic muscles

  Sreenivasan, Krishnamoorthy; Ianni, Alessandro; Künne, Carsten; Strilic, Boris; Günther, Stefan; Perdiguero, Eusebio, 1968-; Krüger, Marcus; Spuler, Simone; Offermanns, Stefan; Gómez del Arco, Pablo; Redondo, Juan Miguel; Muñoz Cánoves, Pura, 1962-; Kim, Johnny; Braun, Thomas (Elsevier, 2020)

  Somatic stem cells expand massively during tissue regeneration, which might require control of cell fitness, allowing elimination of non-competitive, potentially harmful cells. How or if such cells are removed to restore ...
• Methodology handbook: ethnography and data analysis

  Feixa, Carles, 1962-; Sánchez García, José; Soler-i-Martí, Roger; Ballesté Isern, Eduard; Hansen, Nele; Brisley, Adam (Universitat Pompeu FabraEuropean Research Council, 2020)
• k-Best hidden Markov model decoding for unit selection in concatenative sound synthesis

  Nuanáin, Cárthach Ó; Jordà Puig, Sergi; Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964- (Springer, 2018)

  Concatenative synthesis is a sample-based approach to sound creation used frequently in speech synthesis and, increasingly, in musical contexts. Unit selection, a key component, is the process by which sounds are chosen ...
• Drum rhythm spaces: from global models to style-specific maps

  Gómez Marín, Daniel; Jordà Puig, Sergi; Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964- (Springer, 2018)

  This paper presents two experiments carried out to find rhythm descriptors that allow the organization of drum patterns in spaces resembling subjects similarity sensations. We revisit rhythm spaces published by Alf Gabrielsson ...
• Neural mechanisms mediating degrees of strategic uncertainty

  Nagel, Rosemarie; Brovelli, Andrea; Heinemann, Frank; Coricelli, Giorgio (Oxford University Press, 2018)

  In social interactions, strategic uncertainty arises when the outcome of one’s choice depends on the choices of others. An important question is whether strategic uncertainty can be resolved by assessing subjective ...
• Matching information

  Chade, Hector; Eeckhout, Jan (Wiley, 2018)

  We analyze the optimal allocation of experts to teams, where experts differ in the precision of their information, and study the assortative matching properties of the resulting assignment. The main insight is that in ...
• Does the oxidative stress play a role in the associations between outdoor air pollution and persistent asthma in adults? Findings from the EGEA study

  Havet, Anaïs; Li, Zhen; Zerimech, Farid; Sanchez, Margaux; Siroux, Valérie; Le Moual, Nicole; Brunekreef, Bert; Künzli, Nino; Jacquemin Leonard, Bénédicte; Varraso, Raphaëlle; Matran, Regis; Nadif, Rachel (BioMed Central, 2019)

  Background: Evidences that oxidative stress plays a role in the associations between outdoor air pollution and asthma are growing. We aimed to study the role of plasma fluorescent oxidation products levels (FlOPs; an ...
• Trihalomethanes in drinking water and bladder cancer burden in the European Union

  Evlampidou, Iro; Font-Ribera, Laia; Kogevinas, Manolis; Villanueva Belmonte, Cristina (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), 2020)

  Background: Trihalomethanes (THMs) are widespread disinfection by-products (DBPs) in drinking water, and long-term exposure has been consistently associated with increased bladder cancer risk. Objective: We assessed THM ...
• Associations of black carbon with lung function and airway inflammation in schoolchildren

  Paunescu, Alexandra-Cristina; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Ferrero, Amparo; Pañella, Pau; Bougas, Nicolas; Beydon, Nicole; Just, Jocelyne; Lezmi, Guillaume; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Ballester Díez, Ferran; Momas, Isabelle (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background: Few studies have investigated the 24-hour respiratory health effects of personal black carbon (BC) and ultrafine particles (UFP) exposure in schoolchildren. The objective of this study was to investigate these ...
• Organophosphate pesticide metabolite concentrations in urine during pregnancy and offspring attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and autistic traits

  van den Dries, Michiel; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Pronk, Anjoeka; Spaan, Suzanne; El Marroun, Hanan; Jusko, Todd A.; Longnecker, Matthew P.; Ferguson, Kelly K.; Tiemeier, Henning (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background: Prenatal exposure to organophosphate (OP) pesticides has been associated with altered neuronal cell development and behavioral changes in animal offspring. However, the few studies investigating the association ...
• A decade of structural variants: description, history and methods to detect structural variation

  Escaramís, Geòrgia; Docampo, Elisa; Rabionet, Raquel (Oxford University Press, 2015)

  In the past decade, the view on genomic structural variation (SV) has been changed completely. SVs, previously considered rare events, are now recognized as the largest source of interindividual genetic variation affecting ...
• Moment bounds for some fractional stochastic heat equations on the ball

  Nualart, Eulàlia (The Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society, 2018)

  In this paper, we obtain upper and lower bounds for the moments of the solution to a class of fractional stochastic heat equations on the ball driven by a Gaussian noise which is white in time and has a spatial correlation ...
• “Betting on nature” or “betting on others”: anti-coordination induces uniquely high levels of entropy

  Chierchia, Gabriele; Nagel, Rosemarie; Coricelli, Giorgio (Nature Research, 2018)

  Uncertainty in the form of risk or ambiguity can arise from the interaction with nature and other players, while strategic uncertainty arises only in interactions with others. Here, we systematically compare binary decisions ...
• Functional roles and redundancy of demersal Barents Sea fish: ecological implications of environmental change

  Aune, Magnus; Aschan, Michaela M; Greenacre, Michael; Dolgov, Andrey V.; Fossheim, Maria; Primicerio, Raul (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018)

  When facing environmental change and intensified anthropogenic impact on marine ecosystems, extensive knowledge of how these systems are functioning is required in order to manage them properly. However, in high-latitude ...
• Lack of association between particulate air pollution and blood glucose levels and diabetic status in peri-urban India

  Curto Tirado, Ariadna, 1987-; Ranzani, Otavio; Milà, Carles; Sanchez, Margaux; Marshall, Julian D.; Kulkarni, Bharati; Bhogadi, Santhi; Kinra, Sanjay; Wellenius, Gregory A.; Tonne, Cathryn (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background: Limited evidence exists on the effect of particulate air pollution on blood glucose levels. We evaluated the associations of residential and personal levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and black carbon ...

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