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    • Morales, Sebastián; De Mayo, Tomas; Gulppi, Felipe Andrés; González Hormazábal, Patricio; Carrasco, Valentina; Reyes, José Miguel; Gómez, Fernando; Waugh, Enrique; Jara, Lilian (MDPI AG, 2018)
      © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Breast cancer (BC) is one of the most frequent tumors affecting women worldwide. microRNAs (miRNAs) single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) likely contribute to BC ...
    • Acuña, M.; Eeaton, L.; Cifuentes, L.; Massardo, D. (BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, 2006-06)
      Aims Thymidylate synthase (TYMS) is an important target enzyme for the fluoropyrimidines. The TYMS gene enhancer region possesses tandemly repeated (TSER) sequences that are polymorphic in humans and different among ethnic ...
    • Acuña, Mónica; Pinto, Eric; Olivares, Paulina; Ríos, Carolina (S. Karger AG, 2017)
      © 2017 S. Karger AG, Basel. Objectives: It is known that the interindividual and interethnic variability of the genetic polymorphisms of CYP2D6 plays an important role in the presentation of adverse drug reactions and ...
    • Acuña, M.; Eaton, L.; Cifuentes, L. (2004)
      We estimated the frequencies of PON1 and PON2 variants (linked genes) in two hospital samples taken from the northern (San José Hospital, SJH) and eastern (Clínica Las Condes, CLC) parts of Santiago, Chile, using the ...
    • 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, ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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, ...
    • 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, ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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. ...
    • Gaete, Leonardo; Tchernitchin, Andrei N.; Bustamante, Rodrigo; Villena, Joan; Lemus, Igor; Gidekel, Manuel; Cabrera, Gustavo; Carrillo, Omar (2011)
      Sex hormone replacement therapy helps improve quality of life in climacteric women. However, estrogen-induced cell proliferation in the uterus and mammary gland increases the risk for cancer in these organs. The lower ...
    • Kajon, Adriana E.; Larrañaga, Carmen; Suárez, Mónica; Wadell, Göran; Avendaño, Luis F. (1994)
      In a study designed to evaluate the genetic variability of adenovirus strains associated with infantile cases of respiratory disease requiring hospitalization, a collection of 136 adenovirus isolates obtained in the Roberto ...
    • Kajon, Adriana E.; Vicente Suárez, M.; Avendaño, L. F.; Hortal, M.; Wadell, G. (Springer-Verlag, 1993)
      A collection of 148 adenovirus strains of subgenus C collected in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay were studied by restriction enzyme analysis of genomic DNA with endonucleases Bam HI, Bgl II, Bst EII, Eco RI, Hind III, Kpn ...
    • Biscarini, Filippo; Nazzicari, Nelson; Bink, Marco; Arús, Pere; Aranzana, Maria José; Verde, Ignazio; Micali, Sabrina; Pascal, Thierry; Quilot-Turion, Benedicte; Lambert, Patrick; Da Silva Linge, Cassia; Pacheco, Igor; Bassi, Daniele; Stella, Alessandra; Rossini, Laura (BioMed Central Ltd., 2017)
      © 2017 The Author(s). Background: Highly polygenic traits such as fruit weight, sugar content and acidity strongly influence the agroeconomic value of peach varieties. Genomic Selection (GS) can accelerate peach yield and ...
    • Villanueva, Pia; Newbury, Dianne F.; Jara, Lilian; Barbieri Ortiz, Zulema de,; Mirza, Ghazala; Palamino, Hernán M.; Fernández, María Angélica; Cazier, Jean Baptiste; Monaco, Anthony P.; Palomino, Hernán (2011)
      Specific language impairment (SLI) is an unexpected deficit in the acquisition of language skills and affects between 5 and 8% of pre-school children. Despite its prevalence and high heritability, our understanding of the ...
    • Adhikari, Kaustubh; Reales, Guillermo; Smith, Andrew J.P.; Konka, Esra; Palmen, Jutta; Quinto Sánchez, Mirsha; Acuña Alonzo, Víctor; Jaramillo, Claudia; Arias, William; Fuentes, Macarena; Pizarro, María; Barquera Lozano, Rodrigo; Macín Pérez, Gastón; Gómez Valdés, Jorge; Villamil Ramírez, Hugo; Hunemeier, Tábita; Ramallo, Virginia; Silva de Cerqueira, Caio C.; Hurtado, Malena; Villegas, Valeria; Granja, Vanessa; Gallo, Carla; Poletti, Giovanni; Schuler Faccini, Lavinia; Salzano, Francisco M.; Bortolini, Maria Cátira; Canizales Quinteros, Samuel; Rothhammer Engel, Francisco; Bedoya, Gabriel; Calderón, Rosario; Rosique, Javier; Cheeseman, Michael; Bhutta, Mahmood F.; Humphries, Steve E.; González José, Rolando; Headon, Denis; Balding, David; Ruiz Linares, Andrés (Nature Publishing, 2015)
      Here we report a genome-wide association study for non-pathological pinna morphology in over 5,000 Latin Americans. We find genome-wide significant association at seven genomic regions affecting: lobe size and attachment, ...
    • Matamala, José Manuel; Arias Carrasco, Raul; Sánchez, Carolina; Uhrig, Markus; Bargsted, Leslie; Matus, Soledad; Maracaja Coutinho, Vinicius; Abarzua, Sebastián; Van Zundert, Brigitte; Verdugo Latorre, Renato; Manque, Patricio; Hetz Flores, Claudio (Elsevier, 2018)
      The occurrence of mutations of TDP-43, FUS, and C9ORF72 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) suggests pathogenic alterations to RNA metabolism and specifically to microRNA (miRNA) biology. Moreover, several ALS-related ...
    • Bravo, Verónica; Katz Zondek, Assaf; Porte, Lorena; Weitzel, Thomas; Varela, Carmen; González Escalona, Narjol; BlondelI, Carlos J. (Public Library Science, 2021)
      Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli are the leading cause of human gastroenteritis in the industrialized world and an emerging threat in developing countries. The incidence of campylobacteriosis in South America ...
    • Salinas, F.; Mandakovic Seyler, Dinka; Urzúa Tobar, Ulises; Massera, A.; Miras, S.; Combina, M.; Ganga, M. Angélica; Martínez, C. (2010)
      Aims: To study genomic and phenotypic changes in wine yeasts produced in short time periods analysing yeast strains possibly derived from commercial strains recently dispersed. Methods and Results: We conducted a genomic ...