We conducted a genome-wide association study in a large population of infertile men due to unexplained spermatogenic failure (SPGF). More than seven million genetic variants were analysed in 1,274 SPGF cases and 1,951 unaffected controls from two independent European cohorts. Two genomic regions were associated with the most severe histological pattern of SPGF, defined by Sertoli cell-only (SCO) phenotype, name...
The excessive tutelage of Political History over the study of medieval materials, frequently results in attempts to link directly the archeological record with an historical conjuncture, generally disruptive. One example is the tendency to assume that some characteristics of Islamic pottery were exclusive to the time frame of the Muslim domain, submitting the material culture to a political and institutio...
Objective: To evaluate whether SOHLH2 intronic variation contributes to the genetic predisposition to male infertility traits, including severe oligospermia (SO) and different nonobstructive azoospermia (NOA) clinical phenotypes. Design: Genetic association study. Setting: Not applicable. Patient(s): Five hundred five cases (455 infertile patients diagnosed with NOA and 50 with SO) and 1,050 healthy controls fr...
O presente artigo apresenta uma primeira síntese da presença de cerâmicas islâmicas no território setentrional do Garb “português” partindo da pesquisa bibliográfica, com o objectivo de expor e discutir as presenças / ausências de cerâmicas correlacionáveis com protótipos islâmicos entre os séculos VIII e XII, comparando as realidades conhecidas a norte e a sul do Douro. A partir do seu mapeamento tentar-se-á d...
The western end of al-Andalus is characterized by a striking distance from the main power centers and by a certain archaism of material culture. Pottery reflects rather well the evolution of these relations of power and exchange with other regions of al-Andalus, as well as the levels of interconnectivity of the different territories with the commercial networks of the western Mediterranean. The pottery "green a...
En este trabajo de homenaje a Manuel Acién Almansa, el grupo CIGA reúne un conjunto de objetos con elementos iconográficos destacados, interpretando su simbolismo y el significado que su ornamentación tuvo en los territorios más occidentales de al-Andalus, una región periférica donde la cerámica fue un instrumento importante de transmisión de mensajes desde los centros de poder de al-Andalus.
The first references on Islamic pottery in Portugal go back to the end of the nineteenth century. The modest evolution of the research until the 1980s was replaced by the development of the studies on this subject, pressed forward by the fundamental projects of Mértola and Silves. In the 1990s, this development was intensified and, in the last decade, the number, diversity and geographical dispersion of studies...