Demidov, German (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
Germline copy-number variants (CNVs), as well as somatic copy-number alterations (CNAs), play an important role in many phenotypic traits, including genetic diseases and cancer. Next Generation Sequencing ...
Han, Sojung (Date of defense: 2019-10-16)
Bonobos are an interesting species to study due to their unique evolutionary features such as a peaceful social nature and hypersexual behavior. The prolonged exaggerated sexual swelling in females ...
Valles Ibáñez, Guillem de (Date of defense: 2016-11-16)
Human genomes have been found to harbor an unexpected number of ~100 loss-of-function (LoF) variants, with ~20 of them in an homozygous state, in most cases without a visible effect despite its potential ...
García Pérez, Raquel (Date of defense: 2019-01-29)
The evolution of the human phenotype involved gene regulatory innovations. Comparative functional epigenomic studies are a powerful tool with potential to shed light on many long-standing questions ...
Manuel Montero, Marc de (Date of defense: 2018-12-11)
Els nostres parents més propers, els ximpanzés i els bonobos, tenen una història demogràfica complexa. En aquest estudi, hem analitzat els genomes sencers de 75 ximpanzés i bonobos nascuts en 10 països ...
Prado Martínez, Javier (Date of defense: 2014-12-22)
Els grans simis són els nostres parents evolutius més propers i com a tals són la millor eina per entendre els nostres orígens més recents. Mitjançant la genòmica comparativa ara podem estudiar en ...
Carvalho, Tiago Loureiro de (Date of defense: 2016-01-21)
Genetic variation in humans and the great apes has been amply explored using a wide variety of markers, among them tandem repeats (TRs). Because of the nature of TRs, highly variable in length due to ...
Hernando Herráez, Irene (Date of defense: 2015-07-24)
DNA methylation is a crucial epigenetic modification involved in numerous biological processes. However, despite its functional importance, the evolutionary history of this modification and the mechanisms ...
Hernández Rodríguez, Jéssica (Date of defense: 2018-06-08)
The innovation of genomics has progressed at pace with the development of high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies. Prior to the outbreak of next-generation sequencing, retrieving genetic information ...