Muiños Gimeno, Margarita (Date of defense: 2009-12-18)
We have investigated genetic variation in microRNA-mediated regulation as a susceptibility factor for anxiety disorders following two different approaches. We first studied two isoforms of the candidate ...
Bosch Fusté, Elena (Date of defense: 2000-02-18)
S'ha estudiat la variabilitat genètica de les poblacions del nord d'Àfrica a partir de l'anàlisi de diverses regions genòmiques per tal d'entendre les poblacions analitzades d'una banda, i comprendre ...
Hernandez-Ferrer, Carles (Date of defense: 2017-11-14)
Las enfermedades complejas se encuentran entre las más comunes y son causadas por una combinación de factores genéticos y ambientales (contaminación ambiental, estilo de vida, etc). Entre las enfermedades ...
Bussotti, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2013-01-23)
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the field of non-coding RNA. This surge is a direct consequence of the discovery of a huge number of new non-coding genes, and of the finding that ...
Flores Bello, André (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)
Basque people have been the focus of many studies in the last decades due to cultural and genetic characteristics that place them as an outlier population within the European landscape. Despite the ...
Morancho Armisen, Beatriz (Date of defense: 2008-06-19)
NFAT5 is the main regulator of an osmoprotective gene program that is switched on by osmotic stress. Hypertonicity causes a harmful increase in the intracellular concentration of inorganic ions and ...
Haber, Marc (Date of defense: 2013-12-05)
Patterns of human genetic diversity suggest that all modern humans originated from a small population in Africa that expanded rapidly 50,000 years ago to occupy the whole world. While moving into new ...
Rodríguez Botigué, Laura (Date of defense: 2012-11-16)
The history of North Africa is extremely complex, and it has been difficult to assess from genetic and archeological data whether early populations were replaced by later migrations or if there has ...
Torruella Loran, Ignasi (Date of defense: 2016-10-28)
Els microRNAs són importants reguladors de gens i destacats contribuïdors a la diversitat fenotípica clarament involucrats en malaltia humana. Hem analitzat la variabilitat genètica en microRNAs i como ...
Dols Icardo, Oriol (Date of defense: 2016-12-15)
There are overwhelming evidences that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are part of a clinical, pathological and genetic continuum. The C9orf72 repeat expansion is ...