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    • Wang, Sijia; Lewis, Cecil M.; Jakobsson, Mattias; Ramachandran, Sohini; Ray, Nicolas; Bedoya, Gabriel; Rojas, Winston; Parra, Maria V.; Molina, Julio A.; Gallo, Carla; Mazzotti, Guido; Poletti, Giovanni; Hill, Kim; Hurtado, Ana M.; Labuda, Damian; Klitz, William; Barrant (Public Library of Science, 2007)
      We examined genetic diversity and population structure in the American landmass using 678 autosomal microsatellite markers genotyped in 422 individuals representing 24 Native American populations sampled from North, Central, ...
    • Allnutt, T. R.; Newton, A. C.; Lara, A.; Premoli, A.; Armesto, Juan J.; Vergara, R.; Gardner, M. (Blackwell, 1999)
      Fitzroya cupressoides (alerce, Cupressaceae) is a large and exceptionally long-lived conifer, endemic to a restricted area of southern Chile and neighbouring areas of Argentina. As a result of its high economic value, ...
    • Morales Pisón, Sebastián; Jara Sosa, Lilian Elena Jonasa; Carrasco, Valentina; Gutiérrez Vera, Cristian Alfonso; Reyes, José Miguel; González Hormazábal, Sebastián Patricio; Carreño Márquez, Leandro Javier; Tapia Pineda, Julio César; Contreras Muñoz, Héctor Ruberly (MDPI, 2022)
      MicroRNA-423 (miR-423) is highly expressed in breast cancer (BC). Previously, our group showed that the SNP rs6505162:C>A located in the pre-miR-423 was significantly associated with increased familial BC risk in patients ...
    • Busch, Alexander S.; Hagen, Casper P.; Main, Katharina M.; Pereira Scalabrino, Ana; Corvalán Aguilar, Camila; Almstrup, Kristian; Mericq, Verónica; Juul, Anders (Oxford Academic, 2017)
      Context: Although genetic factors play a pivotal role in male pubertal timing, genome-wide association studies have identified only a few loci. Genetic variation of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) action affects adult ...
    • Elisa Kallio, K. A.; Marchesani, Marja; Vlachopoulou, Efthymia; Mäntylä, Päivi; Paju, Susanna; Buhlin, Kåre; Suominen, Anna L.; Contreras, Johanna; Knuuttila, Matti; Hernandez, Marcela; Huumonen, Sisko; Nieminen, Markku S.; Perola, Markus; Sinisalo, Juha; Lokki, Marja (American Society for Microbiology, 2014)
      Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory disease with a multifactorial etiology. We investigated whether human major histocompatibility complex (MHC) polymorphisms (6p21.3) are associated with periodontal parameters. Parogene ...
    • Vásquez, Mauricio; Torres Pérez, Fernando; Lamborot, Madeleine (2007)
      Allozyme variability was assessed within and between 18 samples of four chromosomal races of the Liolaemus monticola complex: "Southern, 2n=34", "Northern, 2n=38-40", "Multiple Fission, 2n=42-44" and "Northern modified 1, ...
    • Palma Rojas, Claudio; González, Carla; Carrasco, Basilio; Silva Ascencio, Herman; Silva Robledo, Herman (Elsevier, 2017)
      Chia-(Salvia hispanica L.) is a native plant to southern Mexico and northern Guatemala although in these days also is cultivated in others South American countries such as Bolivia and Argentina. This study describes a ...
    • Collado, Gonzalo A.; Salinas, Hugo F.; Méndez, Marco (Springer, 2014)
      Background: The isolated watersheds of the southwestern Andean Altiplano constitute a natural laboratory to study the evolutionary divergence of freshwater biota. Field observations showed that Biomphalaria snails ...
    • Delgadillo, J.; González, H.; Uribe Muñoz, Héctor (Universidad Austral de Chile, 2016)
      Chilean bovine dairy production needs to increase milk solid content. This study evaluates and compares genetic and economic progress of New Zealand Holstein (HoNZ) and New Zealand Jersey-HoNz crossbreed (Fx) using selection ...
    • Rubio Astudillo, Julia; Montes, Christian; Castro, Álvaro; Álvarez, Catalina; Olmedo, Blanca; Muñoz, Marisol; Tapia, Eduardo; Reyes, Fernando; Ortega, Marcelo; Sánchez, Evelyn; Miccono, María; Dalla Costa, Lorenza; Martinelli, Lucia; Malnoy, Mickael; Prieto, Humberto (Springer, 2015)
      The fungi Botrytis cinerea and Erysiphe necator are responsible for gray mold and powdery mildew diseases, respectively, which are among the most devastating diseases of grapes. Two endochitinase (ech42 and ech33) genes ...
    • Arizmendi, Claudia; Zuleta, Verónica; Ruiz-Dubreuil, Gladys; Godoy Herrera, Raúl (SPRINGER, 2008-09)
      To understand the genetics and evolution of foraging in larvae of Drosophila funebris, we examined two strains reared at different breeding sites in the wild. Larvae of the Til-Til strain breed in necrotic cactus tissue, ...
    • Cifuentes Guzmán, Víctor; Hermosilla, Germán; Martínez, Claudio; León, Ruben; Pincheira, Guido; Jiménez, Antonio (1997)
      In this work we establish the chromosomal composition of a wild-type, one astaxanthin and two β-carotene overproducer strains of the red yeast Phaffin rhodozyma. The method used has been pulsed field gel electrophoresis, ...
    • Yáñez López, José; Houston, Ross D.; Newman, Scott (Frontiers Media, 2014)
      Infectious and parasitic diseases generate large economic losses in salmon farming. A feasible and sustainable alternative to prevent disease outbreaks may be represented by genetic improvement for disease resistance. To ...
    • Neumann, Hartmut P.; Young, William F.; Krauss, Tobias; Bayley, Jean Pierre; Schiavi, Francesca; Opocher, Giuseppe; Boedeker, Carsten C.; Tirosh, Amit; Castinetti, Frederic; Ruf, Juri; Beltsevich, Dmitry; Walz, Martin; Groeben, Harald Thomas; Von Dobschuetz, Ernst; Gim (BioScientifica Ltd., 2018)
      © 2018 Society for Endocrinology Published by Bioscientifica Ltd. Although the authors of the present review have contributed to genetic discoveries in the field of pheochromocytoma research, we can legitimately ask whether ...
    • González Wevar, Claudio; Rosenfeld Sekulovic, Sebastián; Segovia Cortés, Nicolás; Hune, Mathias; Gérard, Karin; Ojeda, Jaime; Mansilla Muñoz, Andrés; Brickle, Paul; Díaz, Angie; Poulin, Elie (Public Library Science, 2016)
      Glacial episodes of the Quaternary, and particularly the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) drastically altered the distribution of the Southern-Hemisphere biota, principally at higher latitudes. The irregular coastline of Patagonia ...
    • Vásquez González, Mauricio Antonio (Universidad de Chile, 2001)
    • Passalacqua H., Cristóbal; Castillo Taucher, Silvia; Aravena Cerda, Teresa (Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, 2010)
      Colon cancer (CC) is a prevalent disease, with 800,000 new cases annually worldwide. In Chile the mortality is 6.2 per 100,000 inhabitants, which has increased in recent years, being more common in developed countries. ...
    • Salinas Calderón, Valeria Macarena (Universidad de Chile, 2016)
      Las enfermedades psiquiátricas presentan una alta prevalencia y causan alta discapacidad. Debido a la dificultad e importancia en la definición de fenotipos en enfermedades complejas, como las enfermedades mentales, ...
    • Trujillo Osorio, Nicolás Alejandro (Universidad de Chile, 2011)
      Nuestro objetivo era comprender la particularidad de la teoría kantiana del genio dentro del contexto de la historia de la estética, particularmente, la historia del problema de la creatividad artística. Al respecto hemos ...
    • Rojas, R.; Chateau, R.; Gaete, C.; Muñoz, C. (Churchill Livingstone, 2018)
      Genioglossus muscle advancement (GMA) was reported in 1993 as an option for the surgical treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS), in the context of phase I of the Stanford University (Powell Riley) protocol. ...