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    • Espinosa, Yazmín; Martín, Camila San; Torres, Alejandro A.; Farfán, Mauricio J.; Torres, Juan P.; Avadhanula, Vasanthi; Piedra, Pedro A.; Tapia, Lorena I. (MDPI AG, 2017)
      © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.The clinical impact of viral factors (types and viral loads) during respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection is still controversial, especially regarding newly ...
    • Bangera, Rama; Correa, Katharina; Lhorente, Jean Paul; Figueroa, René; Yáñez López, José (BioMed Central Ltd., 2017)
      © 2017 The Author(s). Background: Salmon Rickettsial Syndrome (SRS) caused by Piscirickettsia salmonis is a major disease affecting the Chilean salmon industry. Genomic selection (GS) is a method wherein genome-wide markers ...
    • van der Deen, Margaretha; Akech, Jacqueline; Lapointe, David; Gupta, Sneha; Young, Daniel W.; Montecino, Martín A.; Galindo Díaz, Mario; Lian, Jane B.; Stein, Janet L.; Stein, Gary S.; van Wijnen, Andre J. (2012-02-10)
      Runt-related transcription factors (RUNX1, RUNX2, and RUNX3) are key lineage-specific regulators of progenitor cell growth and differentiation but also function pathologically as cancer genes that contribute to tumorigenesis. ...
    • Ferrada Rubio, Valentina; Herrera Bustos, Cinthya (Universidad de Chile, 2010)
      La enfermedad de Chagas persiste como un problema de salud pública en Latinoamérica. Es producida por el protozoo flagelado Trypanosoma cruzi, el cual ha sido clasificado en 6 Unidades de Tipificación Discreta (DTUs), Tc ...
    • Dufey, Estefanie; Bravo San Pedro, José; Eggers Aracena, Cristián; González Quiroz, Matías; Urra Zúñiga, Hery; Sagredo Campos, Alfredo; Sepúlveda Alvarado, Denisse; Pihán Najle, Philippe; Carreras Sureda, Armando; Hazari, Younis; Sagredo, Eduardo A.; Gutiérrez, Daniela; Valls, Cristian; Papaioannou, Alexandra; Acosta Alvear, Diego; Campos, Gisela; Domingos, Pedro M.; Pedeux, Rémy; Chevet, Eric; Álvarez, Alejandra R.; Godoy, Patricio; Walter, Peter; Glavic Maurer, Álvaro; Kroemer, Guido; Hetz Flores, Claudio (Nature, 2020)
      The molecular connections between homeostatic systems that maintain both genome integrity and proteostasis are poorly understood. Here we identify the selective activation of the unfolded protein response transducer IRE1 ...
    • Venegas Santos, Mauricio; Poniachik Teller, Jaime; Fuster, Francisco; Hurtado Heim, Carmen; Villanueva, Rodrigo A.; Brahm Barril, Javier (2015)
    • Santos M, José Luis; Martínez H, José Alfredo; Martínez-González, Miguel Ángel (2007)
      Epidemiological methods are increasingly used to assess the role of genetic factors and their interaction with environmental factors, in the occurrence of diseases in populations. Nutrition is one of the most relevant ...
    • Aguirre,; Fuentes,; Celedón, (2014)
      Llamas and alpacas are domesticated South American camelids (SACs) important to ancestral population in the Altiplano region, and to different communities worldwide where they have been introduced. These ungulates have ...
    • Carrasco Álvarez, Ximena; Rothhammer Achondo, Paula; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Henríquez B., Hugo; Chakraborty, Ranajit; Aboitiz Domínguez, Francisco Javier; Rothhammer Engel, Francisco (WILEY-LISS, 2006-01-05)
      Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, ADHD [MIM 126452], is a common, highly heritable neurobiological disorder of childhood onset, characterized by hyperactivity, impulsiveness, and/or inattentiveness. As part of an ...
    • Ili, Carmen G.; Brebi, Priscilla; López, Jaime; García, Patricia; Leal, Pamela; Suarez, Eugenio; Roa, Juan C. (2011)
      Infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for 99.7% of cervical cancers, the second most prevalent neoplasia in women worldwide and the fifth leading cause of death by cancer in this population. In Chile, ...
    • O'Dowd, Brian F.; Rothhammer Engel, Francisco; Israel Jacard, Yedy (1990)
      Using the polymerase chain reaction to amplify genomic DNA from hair roots, we have examined the mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2) genotypes of 28 individuals from the South American Mapuche Indians. We have ...
    • Rivolta, Carina M.; Olcese, María C.; Belforte, Fiorella S.; Chiesa, Ana; Gruñeiro-Papendieck, Laura; Iorcansky, Sonia; Herzovich, Viviana; Cassorla Goluboff, Fernando; Gauna, Alicia; Gonzalez-Sarmiento, Rogelio; Targovnik, Héctor M. (2009)
      Thyroid Hormone Receptor β (THRB) defects, typically transmitted as autosomal dominant traits, cause Resistance to Thyroid Hormone (RTH). We analyzed the THRB gene in thirteen South American patients with clinical evidence ...
    • Mejía-Jaramillo, Ana María; Agudelo-Uribe, Luz Adriana; Dib, Juan Carlos; Ortiz, Sylvia; Solari Illescas, Aldo; Triana-Chávez, Omar (BioMed Central Ltd., 2014)
      Background: Chagas disease is a neglected illness caused by the Trypanosoma cruzi parasite, which widely affects American communities. This study attempted to identify T. cruzi genotypes circulating in four indigenous ...
    • Diez, Cristina; Lorenz, Virginia; Ortiz, Silvia; González, Verónica; Racca, Andrea; Bontempi, Iván; Manattini, Silvia; Solari Illescas, Aldo; Marcipar, Iván (2010)
      We have evaluated blood samples of chronic and congenital Trypanosoma cruzi -infected patients from the city of Reconquista located in the northeast of Argentina where no information was previously obtained about the ...
    • Tapia, Cecilia; Correa, Néstor (Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2014)
    • Tapia, Cecilia; Amaro, José (Sociedad Chilena de Infectologia, 2014)
    • Seelenfreund, A.; Fonseca, E.; Llona, F.; Lera Marques, Lydia; Sinclaire, C.; Rees, C. (2009)
      Petrographic analysis and geochemical characterization studies were carried out on vitreous dacite and/or rhyodacite artefacts from Formative period archaeological sites in the upper Salado River Basin in the Atacama Desert, ...
    • Fuentes, Macarena; Pulgar, Iván; Gallo, Carla; Bortolini, María; Canizales Quinteros, Samuel; Bedoya, Gabriel; González José, Rolando; Ruiz Linares, Andrés; Rothhammer Engel, Francisco (Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2014)
      Background: The geographical distribution of genes plays a key role in genetic epidemiology. The Chilean population has three major stem groups (Native American, European and African). Aim: To estimate the regional rate ...
    • Wang, Sijia; Ray, Nicolas; Rojas, Winston; Parra, Maria V.; Bedoya, Gabriel; Gallo, Carla; Poletti, Giovanni; Mazzotti, Guido; Hill, Kim; Hurtado, Ana M.; Camrena, Beatriz; Nicolini, Humberto; Klitz, William; Barrantes, Ramiro; Molina, Julio A.; Freimer, Nelson B.; Cátira Bortolini, María; Salzano, Francisco M.; Petzl-Erler, Maria L.; Tsuneto, Luiza T.; Dipierri, José E.; Alfaro, Emma L.; Bailliet, Graciela; Bianchi, Néstor O.; Llop Romero, Elena; Rothhammer Engel, Francisco; Excoffier, Laurent; Ruiz Linares, Andrés (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2008-03)
      The large and diverse population of Latin America is potentially a powerful resource for elucidating the genetic basis of complex traits through admixture mapping. However, no genome-wide characterization of admixture ...
    • Velásquez, Nelson A. (Elsevier Masson SAS, 2014)
      © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.Geographic variation of traits may represent the first step for evolutionary divergence potentially leading to speciation. Signals are behavioral traits of particular interest for the study of variation ...