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    A multilayered post-GWAS assessment on genetic susceptibility to pancreatic cancer

    Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a complex disease in which both non-genetic and genetic factors interplay. To date, 40 GWAS hits have been associated with PC risk in individuals of European descent, explaining 4.1% ...

    Evangelina López de Maturana, Juan Antonio Rodríguez, Lola Alonso in Genome Medicine (2021)

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    Reply to: Retesting the influences of mutation accumulation and antagonistic pleiotropy on human senescence and disease

    Juan Antonio Rodríguez, Xavier Farré, Gerard Muntané in Nature Ecology & Evolution (2019)

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    Antagonistic pleiotropy and mutation accumulation influence human senescence and disease

    Senescence has long been a public health challenge as well as a fascinating evolutionary problem. There is neither a universally accepted theory for its ultimate causes, nor a consensus about what may be its i...

    Juan Antonio Rodríguez, Urko M. Marigorta, David A. Hughes in Nature Ecology & Evolution (2017)

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    Combining Multiple Hypothesis Testing with Machine Learning Increases the Statistical Power of Genome-wide Association Studies

    The standard approach to the analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) is based on testing each position in the genome individually for statistical significance of its association with the phenotype u...

    Bettina Mieth, Marius Kloft, Juan Antonio Rodríguez, Sören Sonnenburg in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    Genomic analysis of the blood attributed to Louis XVI (1754–1793), king of France

    A pyrographically decorated gourd, dated to the French Revolution period, has been alleged to contain a handkerchief dipped into the blood of the French king Louis XVI (1754–1793) after his beheading but recen...

    Iñigo Olalde, Federico Sánchez-Quinto, Debayan Datta in Scientific Reports (2014)

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    Derived immune and ancestral pigmentation alleles in a 7,000-year-old Mesolithic European

    A complete pre-agricultural European human genome from a ∼7,000-year-old Mesolithic skeleton suggests the existence of a common genomic signature across western and central Eurasia from the Upper Paleolithic t...

    Iñigo Olalde, Morten E. Allentoft, Federico Sánchez-Quinto, Gabriel Santpere in Nature (2014)