Ferran Casals

Genome-wide postnatal changes in immunity following fetal inflammatory response.

Authors:

Daniel Costa Núria Bonet Amanda Solé José Manuel González de Aledo-Castillo Eduard Sabidó Ferran Casals Carlota Rovira Alfons Nadal Jose Luis Marin Teresa Cobo Robert Castelo

FEBS J 2020 Oct 2. Epub 2020 Oct 2.

Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.

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October 2020

The first GHEP-ISFG collaborative exercise on forensic applications of massively parallel sequencing.

Authors:

Pedro A Barrio Óscar García Christopher Phillips Lourdes Prieto Leonor Gusmão Coro Fernández Ferran Casals Jorge M Freitas María Del Carmen González-Albo Pablo Martín Ana Mosquera Isabel Navarro-Vera Manuel Paredes Juan Antonio Pérez Andrea Pinzón Raquel Rasal Jorge Ruiz-Ramírez Bruno R Trindade Antonio Alonso

Forensic Sci Int Genet 2020 Nov 18;49:102391. Epub 2020 Sep 18.

Working Commission on "Massively Parallel Sequencing (MPS): Forensic Applications" of the GHEP-ISFG (The Spanish and Portuguese Speaking Working Group of the International Society for Forensic Genetics), Spain; Biology Service, National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences, Department of Madrid, Spain.

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November 2020

Severe Autoinflammatory Manifestations and Antibody Deficiency Due to Novel Hypermorphic PLCG2 Mutations.

J Clin Immunol 2020 Oct 15;40(7):987-1000. Epub 2020 Jul 15.

Department of Immunology-CDB (esc 4-pl 0), Hospital Clínic, Villarroel, 170, 08036, Barcelona, Spain.

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October 2020

Genetic diagnosis of autoinflammatory disease patients using clinical exome sequencing.

Authors:

Laura Batlle-Masó Anna Mensa-Vilaró Manuel Solís-Moruno Tomàs Marquès-Bonet Juan I Arostegui Ferran Casals

Eur J Med Genet 2020 May 25;63(5):103920. Epub 2020 Mar 25.

Genomics Core Facility, Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona, 08003, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address:

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May 2020

FHLdb: A Comprehensive Database on the Molecular Basis of Familial Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis.

Authors:

Laura Viñas-Giménez Natàlia Padilla Laura Batlle-Masó Ferran Casals Jacques G Rivière Mónica Martínez-Gallo Xavier de la Cruz Roger Colobran

Front Immunol 2020 31;11:107. Epub 2020 Jan 31.

Immunology Division, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron (HUVH), Vall d'Hebron Research Institute (VHIR), Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain.

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January 2020

Historical human remains identification through maternal and paternal genetic signatures in a founder population with extensive genealogical record.

Authors:

Tommy Harding Emmanuel Milot Claudia Moreau Jean-Francois Lefebvre Jean-Sébastien Bournival Hélène Vézina Catherine Laprise Carles Lalueza-Fox Roger Anglada Brad Loewen Ferran Casals Isabelle Ribot Damian Labuda

Am J Phys Anthropol 2020 04 16;171(4):645-658. Epub 2020 Feb 16.

Centre de recherche du CHU Sainte-Justine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada.

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April 2020

Flow Sorting Enrichment and Nanopore Sequencing of Chromosome 1 From a Chinese Individual.

Authors:

Lukas F K Kuderna Manuel Solís-Moruno Laura Batlle-Masó Eva Julià Esther Lizano Roger Anglada Erika Ramírez Alex Bote Marc Tormo Tomàs Marquès-Bonet Òscar Fornas Ferran Casals

Front Genet 2019 9;10:1315. Epub 2020 Jan 9.

Genomics Core Facility, Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona (PRBB), Barcelona, Spain.

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January 2020

Reply to 'No evidence for unknown archaic ancestry in South Asia'.

Authors:

Mayukh Mondal Ferran Casals Partha P Majumder Jaume Bertranpetit

Nat Genet 2018 12;50(12):1637-1639

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

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December 2018

Genomes reveal marked differences in the adaptive evolution between orangutan species.

Authors:

Maja P Mattle-Greminger Tugce Bilgin Sonay Alexander Nater Marc Pybus Tariq Desai Guillem de Valles Ferran Casals Aylwyn Scally Jaume Bertranpetit Tomas Marques-Bonet Carel P van Schaik Maria Anisimova Michael Krützen

Genome Biol 2018 11 15;19(1):193. Epub 2018 Nov 15.

Evolutionary Genetics Group, Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zürich, Switzerland.

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November 2018

Unexpected relevant role of gene mosaicism in patients with primary immunodeficiency diseases.

Authors:

Anna Mensa-Vilaró María Bravo García-Morato Oscar de la Calle-Martin Clara Franco-Jarava María Teresa Martínez-Saavedra Luis I González-Granado Eva González-Roca Jose Luis Fuster Laia Alsina Osvaldo M Mutchinick Angélica Balderrama-Rodríguez Eduardo Ramos Consuelo Modesto Pablo Mesa-Del-Castillo Norberto Ortego-Centeno Daniel Clemente Alejandro Souto Natalia Palmou Agustín Remesal Kieron S Leslie Enrique Gómez de la Fuente Luz Yadira Bravo Gallego Josep María Campistol Naouel Guirat Dhouib Mohamed Bejaoui Lívia Almeida Dutra Maria Teresa Terreri Catalina Mosquera Tatiana González Jerónima Cañellas José María García-Ruiz de Morales Carine H Wouters María Teresa Bosque Weng Tarng Cham Santiago Jiménez-Treviño Jaime de Inocencio Markéta Bloomfield Rebeca Pérez de Diego Natalia Martínez-Pomar Rebeca Rodríguez-Pena Cecilia González-Santesteban Pere Soler-Palacín Ferran Casals Jordi Yagüe Luis M Allende José Carlos Rodríguez-Gallego Roger Colobran Laura Martínez-Martínez Eduardo López-Granados Juan I Aróstegui

J Allergy Clin Immunol 2019 01 29;143(1):359-368. Epub 2018 Sep 29.

Department of Immunology-CDB, Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address:

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January 2019

Evaluating the Genetics of Common Variable Immunodeficiency: Monogenetic Model and Beyond.

Front Immunol 2018 14;9:636. Epub 2018 May 14.

Servei de Genòmica, Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

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June 2019

Phenotype, penetrance, and treatment of 133 cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4-insufficient subjects.

Authors:

Charlotte Schwab Annemarie Gabrysch Peter Olbrich Virginia Patiño Klaus Warnatz Daniel Wolff Akihiro Hoshino Masao Kobayashi Kohsuke Imai Masatoshi Takagi Ingunn Dybedal Jamanda A Haddock David M Sansom Jose M Lucena Maximilian Seidl Annette Schmitt-Graeff Veronika Reiser Florian Emmerich Natalie Frede Alla Bulashevska Ulrich Salzer Desirée Schubert Seiichi Hayakawa Satoshi Okada Maria Kanariou Zeynep Yesim Kucuk Hugo Chapdelaine Lenka Petruzelkova Zdenek Sumnik Anna Sediva Mary Slatter Peter D Arkwright Andrew Cant Hanns-Martin Lorenz Thomas Giese Vassilios Lougaris Alessandro Plebani Christina Price Kathleen E Sullivan Michel Moutschen Jiri Litzman Tomas Freiberger Frank L van de Veerdonk Mike Recher Michael H Albert Fabian Hauck Suranjith Seneviratne Jana Pachlopnik Schmid Antonios Kolios Gary Unglik Christian Klemann Carsten Speckmann Stephan Ehl Alan Leichtner Richard Blumberg Andre Franke Scott Snapper Sebastian Zeissig Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles Lisa Giulino-Roth Olivier Elemento Gregor Dückers Tim Niehues Eva Fronkova Veronika Kanderová Craig D Platt Janet Chou Talal A Chatila Raif Geha Elizabeth McDermott Su Bunn Monika Kurzai Ansgar Schulz Laia Alsina Ferran Casals Angela Deyà-Martinez Sophie Hambleton Hirokazu Kanegane Kjetil Taskén Olaf Neth Bodo Grimbacher

J Allergy Clin Immunol 2018 12 4;142(6):1932-1946. Epub 2018 May 4.

Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI), Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Institute of Immunology and Transplantation, Royal Free Hospital, University College London, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address:

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December 2018

Morphometric, Behavioral, and Genomic Evidence for a New Orangutan Species.

Curr Biol 2017 11;27(22):3576-3577

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November 2017

Morphometric, Behavioral, and Genomic Evidence for a New Orangutan Species.

Curr Biol 2017 Nov 2;27(22):3487-3498.e10. Epub 2017 Nov 2.

Evolutionary Genetics Group, Department of Anthropology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland. Electronic address:

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November 2017

The impact of endogenous content, replicates and pooling on genome capture from faecal samples.

Authors:

Jessica Hernandez-Rodriguez Mimi Arandjelovic Jack Lester Cesare de Filippo Antje Weihmann Matthias Meyer Samuel Angedakin Ferran Casals Arcadi Navarro Linda Vigilant Hjalmar S Kühl Kevin Langergraber Christophe Boesch David Hughes Tomas Marques-Bonet

Mol Ecol Resour 2018 Mar 4;18(2):319-333. Epub 2017 Dec 4.

Departament de Ciencies Experimentals i de la Salut, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (Universitat Pompeu Fabra/CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.

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March 2018

Length and repeat-sequence variation in 58 STRs and 94 SNPs in two Spanish populations.

Authors:

Ferran Casals Roger Anglada Núria Bonet Raquel Rasal Kristiaan J van der Gaag Jerry Hoogenboom Neus Solé-Morata David Comas Francesc Calafell

Forensic Sci Int Genet 2017 09 16;30:66-70. Epub 2017 Jun 16.

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC), Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08003 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Electronic address:

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September 2017

Y-chromosomal sequences of diverse Indian populations and the ancestry of the Andamanese.

Authors:

Mayukh Mondal Anders Bergström Yali Xue Francesc Calafell Hafid Laayouni Ferran Casals Partha P Majumder Chris Tyler-Smith Jaume Bertranpetit

Hum Genet 2017 05 25;136(5):499-510. Epub 2017 Apr 25.

Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Doctor Aiguader 88 (PRBB), 08003, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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May 2017

Detection of genomic rearrangements from targeted resequencing data in Parkinson's disease patients.

Authors:

Nino Spataro Ana Roca-Umbert Laura Cervera-Carles Mònica Vallès Roger Anglada Javier Pagonabarraga Berta Pascual-Sedano Antònia Campolongo Jaime Kulisevsky Ferran Casals Jordi Clarimón Elena Bosch

Mov Disord 2017 01 7;32(1):165-169. Epub 2016 Nov 7.

Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

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January 2017

An assessment of a massively parallel sequencing approach for the identification of individuals from mass graves of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).

Authors:

Francesc Calafell Roger Anglada Núria Bonet Mercedes González-Ruiz Gemma Prats-Muñoz Raquel Rasal Carles Lalueza-Fox Jaume Bertranpetit Assumpció Malgosa Ferran Casals

Electrophoresis 2016 10 5;37(21):2841-2847. Epub 2016 Sep 5.

Genomics Core Facility, Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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October 2016

Natural Selection in the Great Apes.

Authors:

Alexander Cagan Christoph Theunert Hafid Laayouni Gabriel Santpere Marc Pybus Ferran Casals Kay Prüfer Arcadi Navarro Tomas Marques-Bonet Jaume Bertranpetit Aida M Andrés

Mol Biol Evol 2016 12 30;33(12):3268-3283. Epub 2016 Oct 30.

Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

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December 2016

Chimpanzee genomic diversity reveals ancient admixture with bonobos.

Science 2016 10 27;354(6311):477-481. Epub 2016 Oct 27.

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, Doctor Aiguader 88, Barcelona, Catalonia 08003, Spain. National Centre for Genomic Analysis-Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08028 Barcelona, Spain. Institucio Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Catalonia 08010, Spain.

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October 2016

Genomic analysis of Andamanese provides insights into ancient human migration into Asia and adaptation.

Authors:

Mayukh Mondal Ferran Casals Tina Xu Giovanni M Dall'Olio Marc Pybus Mihai G Netea David Comas Hafid Laayouni Qibin Li Partha P Majumder Jaume Bertranpetit

Nat Genet 2016 09 25;48(9):1066-70. Epub 2016 Jul 25.

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

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September 2016

Genetic Load of Loss-of-Function Polymorphic Variants in Great Apes.

Authors:

Guillem de Valles-Ibáñez Jessica Hernandez-Rodriguez Javier Prado-Martinez Pierre Luisi Tomàs Marquès-Bonet Ferran Casals

Genome Biol Evol 2016 Mar 26;8(3):871-7. Epub 2016 Mar 26.

Servei de Genòmica, Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

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March 2016

Mendelian genes for Parkinson's disease contribute to the sporadic forms of the disease.

Authors:

Nino Spataro Francesc Calafell Laura Cervera-Carles Ferran Casals Javier Pagonabarraga Berta Pascual-Sedano Antònia Campolongo Jaime Kulisevsky Alberto Lleó Arcadi Navarro Jordi Clarimón Elena Bosch

Hum Mol Genet 2015 Apr 11;24(7):2023-34. Epub 2014 Dec 11.

Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08003 Barcelona, Spain,

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April 2015

Population and genomic lessons from genetic analysis of two Indian populations.

Authors:

Garima Juyal Mayukh Mondal Pierre Luisi Hafid Laayouni Ajit Sood Vandana Midha Peter Heutink Jaume Bertranpetit B K Thelma Ferran Casals

Hum Genet 2014 Oct 1;133(10):1273-87. Epub 2014 Jul 1.

Department of Genetics, University of Delhi South Campus, New Delhi, 110 021, India.

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October 2014

Whole-exome sequencing reveals a rapid change in the frequency of rare functional variants in a founding population of humans.

PLoS Genet 2013 26;9(9):e1003815. Epub 2013 Sep 26.

Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

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March 2014

Selective constraint, background selection, and mutation accumulation variability within and between human populations.

Authors:

Alan Hodgkinson Ferran Casals Youssef Idaghdour Jean-Christophe Grenier Ryan D Hernandez Philip Awadalla

BMC Genomics 2013 Jul 23;14:495. Epub 2013 Jul 23.

Sainte Justine Research Centre, Department of Pediatrics, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.

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July 2013

Great ape genetic diversity and population history.

Authors:

Javier Prado-Martinez Peter H Sudmant Jeffrey M Kidd Heng Li Joanna L Kelley Belen Lorente-Galdos Krishna R Veeramah August E Woerner Timothy D O'Connor Gabriel Santpere Alexander Cagan Christoph Theunert Ferran Casals Hafid Laayouni Kasper Munch Asger Hobolth Anders E Halager Maika Malig Jessica Hernandez-Rodriguez Irene Hernando-Herraez Kay Prüfer Marc Pybus Laurel Johnstone Michael Lachmann Can Alkan Dorina Twigg Natalia Petit Carl Baker Fereydoun Hormozdiari Marcos Fernandez-Callejo Marc Dabad Michael L Wilson Laurie Stevison Cristina Camprubí Tiago Carvalho Aurora Ruiz-Herrera Laura Vives Marta Mele Teresa Abello Ivanela Kondova Ronald E Bontrop Anne Pusey Felix Lankester John A Kiyang Richard A Bergl Elizabeth Lonsdorf Simon Myers Mario Ventura Pascal Gagneux David Comas Hans Siegismund Julie Blanc Lidia Agueda-Calpena Marta Gut Lucinda Fulton Sarah A Tishkoff James C Mullikin Richard K Wilson Ivo G Gut Mary Katherine Gonder Oliver A Ryder Beatrice H Hahn Arcadi Navarro Joshua M Akey Jaume Bertranpetit David Reich Thomas Mailund Mikkel H Schierup Christina Hvilsom Aida M Andrés Jeffrey D Wall Carlos D Bustamante Michael F Hammer Evan E Eichler Tomas Marques-Bonet

Nature 2013 Jul 3;499(7459):471-5. Epub 2013 Jul 3.

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, PRBB, Doctor Aiguader 88, Barcelona, Catalonia 08003, Spain.

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July 2013

Exome sequencing identifies mutations in the gene TTC7A in French-Canadian cases with hereditary multiple intestinal atresia.

J Med Genet 2013 May 19;50(5):324-9. Epub 2013 Feb 19.

Centre de Recherche du CHU Ste-Justine, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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May 2013

Long-standing balancing selection in the THBS4 gene: influence on sex-specific brain expression and gray matter volumes in Alzheimer disease.

Authors:

Rachele Cagliani Franca R Guerini Raquel Rubio-Acero Francesca Baglio Diego Forni Cristina Agliardi Ludovica Griffanti Matteo Fumagalli Uberto Pozzoli Stefania Riva Elena Calabrese Martin Sikora Ferran Casals Giacomo P Comi Nereo Bresolin Mario Cáceres Mario Clerici Manuela Sironi

Hum Mutat 2013 May 2;34(5):743-53. Epub 2013 Apr 2.

Scientific Institute IRCCS E. Medea, Bosisio Parini, Italy.

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May 2013

Rare allelic forms of PRDM9 associated with childhood leukemogenesis.

Genome Res 2013 Mar 5;23(3):419-30. Epub 2012 Dec 5.

Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Montreal H3C 3J7, Canada.

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March 2013

Genetics. Human genetic variation, shared and private.

Authors:

Ferran Casals Jaume Bertranpetit

Science 2012 Jul;337(6090):39-40

IBE-Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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July 2012

Next-generation sequencing approaches for genetic mapping of complex diseases.

Authors:

Ferran Casals Youssef Idaghdour Julie Hussin Philip Awadalla

J Neuroimmunol 2012 Jul 27;248(1-2):10-22. Epub 2012 Jan 27.

Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-Justine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

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July 2012

A targeted association study of immunity genes and networks suggests novel associations with placental malaria infection.

Authors:

Martin Sikora Hafid Laayouni Clara Menendez Alfredo Mayor Azucena Bardaji Betuel Sigauque Mihai G Netea Ferran Casals Jaume Bertranpetit

PLoS One 2011 19;6(9):e24996. Epub 2011 Sep 19.

Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), CEXS-UPF-PRBB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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February 2012

Genetic adaptation of the antibacterial human innate immunity network.

Authors:

Ferran Casals Martin Sikora Hafid Laayouni Ludovica Montanucci Aura Muntasell Ross Lazarus Francesc Calafell Philip Awadalla Mihai G Netea Jaume Bertranpetit

BMC Evol Biol 2011 Jul 11;11:202. Epub 2011 Jul 11.

Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), CEXS - UPF - PRBB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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July 2011

Variation in genome-wide mutation rates within and between human families.

Authors:

Donald F Conrad Jonathan E M Keebler Mark A DePristo Sarah J Lindsay Yujun Zhang Ferran Casals Youssef Idaghdour Chris L Hartl Carlos Torroja Kiran V Garimella Martine Zilversmit Reed Cartwright Guy A Rouleau Mark Daly Eric A Stone Matthew E Hurles Philip Awadalla

Nat Genet 2011 Jun 12;43(7):712-4. Epub 2011 Jun 12.

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK.

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June 2011

Similarity in recombination rate estimates highly correlates with genetic differentiation in humans.

Authors:

Hafid Laayouni Ludovica Montanucci Martin Sikora Marta Melé Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio Belén Lorente-Galdos Kate M McGee Jan Graffelman Philip Awadalla Elena Bosch David Comas Arcadi Navarro Francesc Calafell Ferran Casals Jaume Bertranpetit

PLoS One 2011 Mar 28;6(3):e17913. Epub 2011 Mar 28.

IBE, Institute of Evolutionary Biology UPF-CSIC, CEXS-UPF-PRBB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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March 2011

A population genetic approach to mapping neurological disorder genes using deep resequencing.

Authors:

Rachel A Myers Ferran Casals Julie Gauthier Fadi F Hamdan Jon Keebler Adam R Boyko Carlos D Bustamante Amelie M Piton Dan Spiegelman Edouard Henrion Martine Zilversmit Julie Hussin Jacklyn Quinlan Yan Yang Ronald G Lafrenière Alexander R Griffing Eric A Stone Guy A Rouleau Philip Awadalla

PLoS Genet 2011 Feb 24;7(2):e1001318. Epub 2011 Feb 24.

Department of Pediatrics, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.

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February 2011

Recent human evolution has shaped geographical differences in susceptibility to disease.

Authors:

Urko M Marigorta Oscar Lao Ferran Casals Francesc Calafell Carlos Morcillo-Suárez Rui Faria Elena Bosch François Serra Jaume Bertranpetit Hernán Dopazo Arcadi Navarro

BMC Genomics 2011 Jan 24;12:55. Epub 2011 Jan 24.

Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), PRBB, Doctor Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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January 2011

Direct measure of the de novo mutation rate in autism and schizophrenia cohorts.

Am J Hum Genet 2010 Sep;87(3):316-24

Department of Pediatrics, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

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September 2010

Decay of linkage disequilibrium within genes across HGDP-CEPH human samples: most population isolates do not show increased LD.

Authors:

Elena Bosch Hafid Laayouni Carlos Morcillo-Suarez Ferran Casals Andrés Moreno-Estrada Anna Ferrer-Admetlla Michelle Gardner Araceli Rosa Arcadi Navarro David Comas Jan Graffelman Francesc Calafell Jaume Bertranpetit

BMC Genomics 2009 Jul 28;10:338. Epub 2009 Jul 28.

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC), Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Parc de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

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July 2009

Interrogating 11 fast-evolving genes for signatures of recent positive selection in worldwide human populations.

Authors:

Andrés Moreno-Estrada Kun Tang Martin Sikora Tomàs Marquès-Bonet Ferran Casals Arcadi Navarro Francesc Calafell Jaume Bertranpetit Mark Stoneking Elena Bosch

Mol Biol Evol 2009 Oct 3;26(10):2285-97. Epub 2009 Jul 3.

Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (UPF-CSIC), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

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October 2009

A natural history of FUT2 polymorphism in humans.

Authors:

Anna Ferrer-Admetlla Martin Sikora Hafid Laayouni Anna Esteve Francis Roubinet Antoine Blancher Francesc Calafell Jaume Bertranpetit Ferran Casals

Mol Biol Evol 2009 Sep 1;26(9):1993-2003. Epub 2009 Jun 1.

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), CEXS-UPF-PRBB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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September 2009

A variant in the gene FUT9 is associated with susceptibility to placental malaria infection.

Authors:

Martin Sikora Anna Ferrer-Admetlla Hafid Laayouni Clara Menendez Alfredo Mayor Azucena Bardaji Betuel Sigauque Inacio Mandomando Pedro L Alonso Jaume Bertranpetit Ferran Casals

Hum Mol Genet 2009 Aug 21;18(16):3136-44. Epub 2009 May 21.

Institute of Evolutionary Biology (UPF-CSIC), CEXS-UPF-PRBB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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August 2009

Human pseudogenes of the ABO family show a complex evolutionary dynamics and loss of function.

Authors:

Ferran Casals Anna Ferrer-Admetlla Martin Sikora Anna Ramírez-Soriano Tomàs Marquès-Bonet Stéphanie Despiau Francis Roubinet Francesc Calafell Jaume Bertranpetit Antoine Blancher

Glycobiology 2009 Jun 13;19(6):583-91. Epub 2009 Feb 13.

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF), CEXS-UPF-PRBB, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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June 2009

Balancing selection is the main force shaping the evolution of innate immunity genes.

Authors:

Anna Ferrer-Admetlla Elena Bosch Martin Sikora Tomàs Marquès-Bonet Anna Ramírez-Soriano Aura Muntasell Arcadi Navarro Ross Lazarus Francesc Calafell Jaume Bertranpetit Ferran Casals

J Immunol 2008 Jul;181(2):1315-22

Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Unitat de Biologia Evolutiva, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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July 2008

Is there selection for the pace of successive inactivation of the arpAT gene in primates?

Authors:

Ferran Casals Anna Ferrer-Admetlla Josep Chillarón David Torrents Manuel Palacín Jaume Bertranpetit

J Mol Evol 2008 Jul 20;67(1):23-8. Epub 2008 Jun 20.

Evolutionary Biology Unit, Department of Experimental Sciences and Health, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 08003 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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July 2008

SNP analysis to results (SNPator): a web-based environment oriented to statistical genomics analyses upon SNP data.

Authors:

Carlos Morcillo-Suarez Josep Alegre Ricardo Sangros Elodie Gazave Rafael de Cid Roger Milne Jorge Amigo Anna Ferrer-Admetlla Andrés Moreno-Estrada Michelle Gardner Ferran Casals Anna Pérez-Lezaun David Comas Elena Bosch Francesc Calafell Jaume Bertranpetit Arcadi Navarro

Bioinformatics 2008 Jul 30;24(14):1643-4. Epub 2008 May 30.

Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Barcelona, Spain.

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July 2008

Evolutionary analysis of genes of two pathways involved in placental malaria infection.

Authors:

Martin Sikora Anna Ferrer-Admetlla Alfredo Mayor Jaume Bertranpetit Ferran Casals

Hum Genet 2008 May 4;123(4):343-57. Epub 2008 Mar 4.

Evolutionary Biology Unit, Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Biomedical Research Park, Carrer Dr Aiguader 88, 08003, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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May 2008