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Insights into the Middle Eastern paternal genetic pool in Tunisia: high prevale...
Elkamel, S; Marques, SL; Alvarez, L; Gomes, V; Boussetta, S; Mourali-Chebil, S; Khodjet-El-Khil, H; Cherni, L; Benammar-Elgaaied, A; João Prata, MTo obtain refreshed insights into the paternal lineages of Tunisian populations, Y-chromosome diversity was assessed in two populations belonging to an Arab genealogical lineage, Kairouan and Wesletia, as well as in four Tunisian Andalusian populations, Testour, Slouguia, Qalaat-El-Andalous and El Alia. The Arabs from Kairouan revealed 73.47% of E-M81 and close affinities with Berber groups, indicating they are...
Genome-wide scan for five brain oscillatory phenotypes identifies a new qtl ass...
Rebelo, MÂ; Gómez, C; Gomes, I; Poza, J; Martins, S; Maturana-Candelas, A; Ruiz-Gómez, SJ; Durães, L; Sousa, P; Figueruelo, M; Rodríguez, M; Pita, CBrain waves, measured by electroencephalography (EEG), are a powerful tool in the investigation of neurophysiological traits and a noninvasive and cost-effective alternative in the diagnostic of some neurological diseases. In order to identify novel Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs) for brain wave relative power (RP), we collected resting state EEG data in five frequency bands (d, ¿, a, ß1, and ß2) and genome-wide...
Middle eastern genetic legacy in the paternal and maternal gene pools of Chuetas
Ferragut, JF; Ramon, C; Castro, JA; Amorim, A; Alvarez, L; Picornell, AChuetas are a group of descendants of Majorcan Crypto-Jews (Balearic Islands, Spain) who were socially stigmatized and segregated by their Majorcan neighbours until recently; generating a community that, although after the seventeenth century no longer contained Judaic religious elements, maintained strong group cohesion, Jewishness consciousness, and endogamy. Collective memory fixed 15 surnames as a most impo...
Genes from the TAS1R and TAS2R families of taste receptors: Looking for signatu...
Valente, C; Alvarez, L; Marques, PI; Gusmão, L; Amorim, A; Seixas, S; Prata, MJTaste perception is crucial in monitoring food intake and, hence, is thought to play a significant role in human evolution. To gain insights into possible adaptive signatures in genes encoding bitter, sweet, and umami taste receptors, we surveyed the available sequence variation data from the 1000 Genomes Project Phase 3 for TAS1R (TAS1R1-3) and TAS2R (TAS2R16 and TAS2R38) families. Our study demonstrated that ...