List of works - Luisa Pereira

60,000 years of interactions between Central and Eastern Africa documented by major African mitochondrial haplogroup L2

scientific article

A Genetic Perspective on African Prehistory

A SNaPshot multiplex typing strategy for mtDNA identification of mouse inbred strains

A dispersal of Homo sapiens from southern to eastern Africa immediately preceded the out-of-Africa migration

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

A founder SDHB mutation in Portuguese paraganglioma patients

article

A genetic chronology for the Indian Subcontinent points to heavily sex-biased dispersals

scientific article

A recent shift from polygyny to monogamy in humans is suggested by the analysis of worldwide Y-chromosome diversity

scientific article

A substantial prehistoric European ancestry amongst Ashkenazi maternal lineages

scientific article

A worldwide database of autosomal markers used by the forensic community

Afadin Downregulation by Induces Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition in Gastric Cells

scientific article published on 09 November 2018

An evaluation of the proportion of identical Y-STR haplotypes due to recurrent mutation

Analysis of inter-specific mitochondrial DNA diversity for accurate species identification

Association of STAT4, TGFβ1, SH2B3 and PTPN22 polymorphisms with autoimmune hepatitis

article

CRABP1, C1QL1 and LCN2 are biomarkers of differentiated thyroid carcinoma, and predict extrathyroidal extension

scientific article published on 10 January 2018

Characterizing partial AZFc deletions of the Y chromosome with amplicon-specific sequence markers

scientific article

Co-expression networks between protein encoding mitochondrial genes and all the remaining genes in human tissues

article

Comparing phylogeny and the predicted pathogenicity of protein variations reveals equal purifying selection across the global human mtDNA diversity

scientific article

Corrigendum to “Data for 15 autosomal STR markers (Powerplex 16 System) from two Tunisian populations: Kesra (Berber) and Zriba (Arab)” [Forensic Sci. Int. 147 (2005) 101–106]

scholarly article published in Forensic Science International

Counting the founders: the matrilineal genetic ancestry of the Jewish Diaspora

scientific article published in 2008

Data for 15 autosomal STR markers (Powerplex 16 System) from two Tunisian populations: Kesra (Berber) and Zriba (Arab).

scientific article

Data for Y-chromosome haplotypes defined by 17 STRs (AmpFLSTR Yfiler) in two Tunisian Berber communities

scientific article

Data from complete mtDNA sequencing of Tunisian centenarians: testing haplogroup association and the "golden mean" to longevity

scientific article

Detection of additional structural variation at the FES/FPS system and population data from S. Tomé e Príncipe and North Portugal

scientific article

Differential slave trade to Europe and Brazil from the western and eastern African coasts as registered in the mtDNA pool

article

Dispersals and genetic adaptation of Bantu-speaking populations in Africa and North America

scientific article

Early Holocenic and Historic mtDNA African Signatures in the Iberian Peninsula: The Andalusian Region as a Paradigm

scientific article (publication date: 28 October 2015)

Erratum to: Quantifying the legacy of the Chinese Neolithic on the maternal genetic heritage of Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia

scientific article published on 4 April 2016

Evaluating purifying selection in the mitochondrial DNA of various mammalian species

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Evaluating the forensic informativeness of mtDNA haplogroup H sub-typing on a Eurasian scale

scientific article published in August 2005

Evidence for variable selective pressures at a large secondary structure of the human mitochondrial DNA control region

scientific article

Evidence of Austronesian Genetic Lineages in East Africa and South Arabia: Complex Dispersal from Madagascar and Southeast Asia

article

Extended Northern Portuguese database on 21 autosomal STRs used in genetic identification

article

Extensive Admixture and Selective Pressure Across the Sahel Belt

scientific article

Failed PCR amplifications of MBP-STR alleles due to polymorphism in the primer annealing region

scientific article

Fine Time Scaling of Purifying Selection on Human Nonsynonymous mtDNA Mutations Based on the Worldwide Population Tree and Mother-Child Pairs.

scientific article

From Networks to Trees

GLUT1, MCT1/4 and CD147 overexpression supports the metabolic reprogramming in papillary renal cell carcinoma

scientific article published on 28 December 2016

Genetic Structure of the Western and Eastern African Sahel/Savannah Belt and the Role of Nomadic Pastoralists as Inferred from the Variation of D-Loop Mitochondrial DNA Sequences

Genetic history of the African Sahelian populations.

scientific article published on 7 December 2017

Genetic signatures of a Mediterranean influence in Iberian Peninsula sheep husbandry

scientific article published on 3 May 2006

Genetic stratigraphy of key demographic events in Arabia

scientific article

Genetic structure of pastoral and farmer populations in the African Sahel

scientific article published on 24 March 2011

Genome-Wide Characterization of Arabian Peninsula Populations: Shedding Light on the History of a Fundamental Bridge between Continents

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Genomic and transcriptomic characterization of the mitochondrial-rich oncocytic phenotype on a thyroid carcinoma background

scientific article published on 6 April 2018

Global human frequencies of predicted nuclear pathogenic variants and the role played by protein hydrophobicity in pathogenicity potential

scientific article published on 21 November 2014

Heterogeneity in coding mtDNA mutation rates: Implications in forensic genetics

article

High-resolution mtDNA evidence for the late-glacial resettlement of Europe from an Iberian refugium

scientific article

Host ancestry and dengue fever: from mapping of candidate genes to prediction of worldwide genetic risk

article

How much more should the Y-STR Haplotype Reference Database increase to reach a pragmatic saturation level?

Human mtDNA haplogroups and reduced male fertility: real association or hidden population substructuring

article

Human neutral genetic variation and forensic STR data

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

IPCAPS: an R package for iterative pruning to capture population structure

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

Icelandic population data for the STR loci in the AMPFlSTR SGM Plus system and the PowerPlex Y-system

scientific article

Identification of mouse inbred strains through mitochondrial DNA single-nucleotide extension

Internal diversification of mitochondrial haplogroup R0a reveals post-last glacial maximum demographic expansions in South Arabia

scientific article published on 19 July 2010

Internal diversification of non-Sub-Saharan haplogroups in Sahelian populations and the spread of pastoralism beyond the Sahara.

scientific article published on 24 July 2017

Is selection at mtDNA really a major concern?

Islands inside an island: reproductive isolates on Jerba island

scientific article

Joint ancestry and association test indicate two distinct pathogenic pathways involved in classical dengue fever and dengue shock syndrome

scientific article published on 15 February 2018

Linking the sub-Saharan and West Eurasian gene pools: maternal and paternal heritage of the Tuareg nomads from the African Sahel

scientific article

Local population structure in Arabian Peninsula revealed by Y-STR diversity

scientific article (publication date: 2009)

Migration of Chadic speaking pastoralists within Africa based on population structure of Chad Basin and phylogeography of mitochondrial L3f haplogroup

scientific article

Mismatch distribution analysis of Y-STR haplotypes as a tool for the evaluation of identity-by-state proportions and significance of matches—the European picture

scientific article published on 01 December 2002

Mitochondrial DNA haplotyping revealed the presence of mixed up benign and neoplastic tissue sections from two individuals on the same prostatic biopsy slide

scientific article published on January 2005

Mitochondrial DNA pseudogenes in the nuclear genome as possible sources of contamination

Mitochondrial DNA signals of late glacial recolonization of Europe from near eastern refugia

scientific article

Mitochondrial genomes from modern horses reveal the major haplogroups that underwent domestication

scientific article (publication date: 14 February 2012)

Mitochondrial portrait of the Cabo Verde archipelago: the Senegambian outpost of Atlantic slave trade

scientific article

Mitochondrial portraits of the Madeira and Açores archipelagos witness different genetic pools of its settlers

scientific article (publication date: December 2003)

MtDNA GeneExtractor: a computer tool for mtDNA gene/region information extraction

scientific article published on 3 December 2008

MtDNA diversity among four Portuguese autochthonous dog breeds: a fine-scale characterisation

scientific article

Multiplex STR genotyping: comparison study, population data and new sequence information

Mutation C11994T in the mitochondrial ND4 gene is not a cause of low sperm motility in Portugal

scientific article published on 22 May 2007

NIS expression in thyroid tumors, relation with prognosis clinicopathological and molecular features

scientific article published in January 2018

Near eastern neolithic genetic input in a small oasis of the Egyptian Western Desert

scientific article (publication date: October 2009)

No evidence for an mtDNA role in sperm motility: data from complete sequencing of asthenozoospermic males

scientific article

OSBPL10, RXRA and lipid metabolism confer African-ancestry protection against dengue haemorrhagic fever in admixed Cubans

scientific article

Origin and spread of human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U7.

scientific article published on 07 April 2017

Out of Arabia-The settlement of Island Soqotra as revealed by mitochondrial and Y chromosome genetic diversity

scientific article

Pattern of mtDNA variation in three populations from São Tomé e Príncipe

scientific article published in January 2004

Phylogeny of the mtDNA haplogroup U6. Analysis of the sequences observed in North Africa and Iberia

article

Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in Southern Arabia from the perspective of human mtDNA variation

scientific article

PopAffiliator: online calculator for individual affiliation to a major population group based on 17 autosomal short tandem repeat genotype profile

scientific article published on 16 June 2010

Population expansion in the North African late Pleistocene signalled by mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6

scientific article (publication date: 21 December 2010)

Population genetics-informed meta-analysis in seven genes associated with risk to dengue fever disease

scientific article published on 16 April 2018

Population history of the Red Sea--genetic exchanges between the Arabian Peninsula and East Africa signaled in the mitochondrial DNA HV1 haplogroup

scientific article (publication date: August 2011)

Population structure of modern-day Italians reveals patterns of ancient and archaic ancestries in Southern Europe

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

Post-last glacial maximum expansion from Iberia to North Africa revealed by fine characterization of mtDNA H haplogroup in Tunisia

scientific article

Predicting sampling saturation of mtDNA haplotypes: an application to an enlarged Portuguese database

scientific article published on 11 February 2004

Pros and cons in the use of SNPs in forensic kinship investigation: a comparative analysis with STRs

article

QmihR: Pipeline for Quantification of Microbiome in Human RNA-seq

scholarly article by Bruno Cavadas et al published 2017 in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

Quantifying the legacy of the Chinese Neolithic on the maternal genetic heritage of Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia

scientific article published on 13 February 2016

Radiocarbon Dating the Beginning of the Neolithic in Iberia: New Results, New Problems

Reconciling evidence from ancient and contemporary genomes: a major source for the European Neolithic within Mediterranean Europe

scientific article published in March 2017

Reconstructing an African haploid genome from the 18th century.

scientific article published on 15 January 2018

Regional differences in the distribution of the sub-Saharan, West Eurasian, and South Asian mtDNA lineages in Yemen

scientific article

RepeatAround: a software tool for finding and visualizing repeats in circular genomes and its application to a human mtDNA database

scientific article published on 14 June 2006

Resolving the ancestry of Austronesian-speaking populations

scientific article published on 18 January 2016

Response to Yao et al

Results of the 1999-2000 collaborative exercise and proficiency testing program on mitochondrial DNA of the GEP-ISFG: an inter-laboratory study of the observed variability in the heteroplasmy level of hair from the same donor

scientific article

STR data (CD4, CSF1PO, F13A01, FES/FPS, MBPB, TH01, TPOX) from North Portugal

scientific article

Sampling efficiency for Amerindian female lineages

Specificity of mtDNA-directed PCR—influence of NUclear MTDNA insertion (NUMT) contamination in routine samples and techniques

scientific article published on 14 September 2007

Standardisation of nomenclature for dog mtDNA D-loop: a prerequisite for launching a Canis familiaris database.

scientific article

Subdividing mtDNA haplogroup H based on coding-region polymorphisms—a study in Iberia

article published in 2004

TERT, BRAF, and NRAS in Primary Thyroid Cancer and Metastatic Disease

scientific article published on 6 March 2017

The Arabian cradle: mitochondrial relicts of the first steps along the southern route out of Africa

scientific article

The Comoros Show the Earliest Austronesian Gene Flow into the Swahili Corridor

scientific article published in January 2018

The Expansion of mtDNA Haplogroup L3 within and out of Africa

scientific article

The Islamization of Iberian Peninsula: A demographic shift or a cultural change? Search for an answer using extant and ancient DNA from Mértola (Southeast Portugal)

article

The dawn of human matrilineal diversity

scientific article

The diversity present in 5140 human mitochondrial genomes

scientific article published on 7 May 2009

The first modern human dispersals across Africa

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

The genetic impact of the lake chad basin population in North Africa as documented by mitochondrial diversity and internal variation of the L3e5 haplogroup

scientific article

The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people

scientific article

The matrilineal ancestry of Ashkenazi Jewry: portrait of a recent founder event ⬇️

scientific article

The mtDNA catalogue of all Portuguese autochthonous goat (Capra hircus) breeds: high diversity of female lineages at the western fringe of European distribution

scientific article published on July 2005

The trans-Saharan slave trade - clues from interpolation analyses and high-resolution characterization of mitochondrial DNA lineages

scientific article

Usefulness of microchip electrophoresis for the analysis of mitochondrial DNA in forensic and ancient DNA studies

scientific article published on December 2006

VWA STR genotyping: further inconsistencies between Perkin-Elmer and Promega kits

scientific article published in October 2001

Y chromosome haplotypes in the Madeira archipelago population

Y-chromosomal STR haplotypes in three ethnic groups and one cosmopolitan population from Tunisia

scientific article (publication date: August 2005)

Y-chromosomal diversity in Europe is clinal and influenced primarily by geography, rather than by language

scientific article

Y-chromosome mismatch distributions in Europe.

scientific article

mtDNA diversity in Sudan (East Africa)

mtDNA lineages in two Tunisian Berber communities: Comparing diversities between villages and towns

scholarly article by S. Frigi et al published April 2006 in International Congress Series

mtDNA phylogeny and evolution of laboratory mouse strains

scientific article

List of works by Luisa Pereira

60,000 years of interactions between Central and Eastern Africa documented by major African mitochondrial haplogroup L2

A Genetic Perspective on African Prehistory

A SNaPshot multiplex typing strategy for mtDNA identification of mouse inbred strains

A dispersal of Homo sapiens from southern to eastern Africa immediately preceded the out-of-Africa migration

A founder SDHB mutation in Portuguese paraganglioma patients

A genetic chronology for the Indian Subcontinent points to heavily sex-biased dispersals

A recent shift from polygyny to monogamy in humans is suggested by the analysis of worldwide Y-chromosome diversity

A substantial prehistoric European ancestry amongst Ashkenazi maternal lineages

A worldwide database of autosomal markers used by the forensic community

Afadin Downregulation by Induces Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition in Gastric Cells

An evaluation of the proportion of identical Y-STR haplotypes due to recurrent mutation

Analysis of inter-specific mitochondrial DNA diversity for accurate species identification

Association of STAT4, TGFβ1, SH2B3 and PTPN22 polymorphisms with autoimmune hepatitis

CRABP1, C1QL1 and LCN2 are biomarkers of differentiated thyroid carcinoma, and predict extrathyroidal extension

Characterizing partial AZFc deletions of the Y chromosome with amplicon-specific sequence markers

Co-expression networks between protein encoding mitochondrial genes and all the remaining genes in human tissues

Comparing phylogeny and the predicted pathogenicity of protein variations reveals equal purifying selection across the global human mtDNA diversity

Corrigendum to “Data for 15 autosomal STR markers (Powerplex 16 System) from two Tunisian populations: Kesra (Berber) and Zriba (Arab)” [Forensic Sci. Int. 147 (2005) 101–106]

Counting the founders: the matrilineal genetic ancestry of the Jewish Diaspora

Data for 15 autosomal STR markers (Powerplex 16 System) from two Tunisian populations: Kesra (Berber) and Zriba (Arab).

Data for Y-chromosome haplotypes defined by 17 STRs (AmpFLSTR Yfiler) in two Tunisian Berber communities

Data from complete mtDNA sequencing of Tunisian centenarians: testing haplogroup association and the "golden mean" to longevity

Detection of additional structural variation at the FES/FPS system and population data from S. Tomé e Príncipe and North Portugal

Differential slave trade to Europe and Brazil from the western and eastern African coasts as registered in the mtDNA pool

Dispersals and genetic adaptation of Bantu-speaking populations in Africa and North America

Early Holocenic and Historic mtDNA African Signatures in the Iberian Peninsula: The Andalusian Region as a Paradigm

Erratum to: Quantifying the legacy of the Chinese Neolithic on the maternal genetic heritage of Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia

Evaluating purifying selection in the mitochondrial DNA of various mammalian species

Evaluating the forensic informativeness of mtDNA haplogroup H sub-typing on a Eurasian scale

Evidence for variable selective pressures at a large secondary structure of the human mitochondrial DNA control region

Evidence of Austronesian Genetic Lineages in East Africa and South Arabia: Complex Dispersal from Madagascar and Southeast Asia

Extended Northern Portuguese database on 21 autosomal STRs used in genetic identification

Extensive Admixture and Selective Pressure Across the Sahel Belt

Failed PCR amplifications of MBP-STR alleles due to polymorphism in the primer annealing region

Fine Time Scaling of Purifying Selection on Human Nonsynonymous mtDNA Mutations Based on the Worldwide Population Tree and Mother-Child Pairs.

From Networks to Trees

GLUT1, MCT1/4 and CD147 overexpression supports the metabolic reprogramming in papillary renal cell carcinoma

Genetic Structure of the Western and Eastern African Sahel/Savannah Belt and the Role of Nomadic Pastoralists as Inferred from the Variation of D-Loop Mitochondrial DNA Sequences

Genetic history of the African Sahelian populations.

Genetic signatures of a Mediterranean influence in Iberian Peninsula sheep husbandry

Genetic stratigraphy of key demographic events in Arabia

Genetic structure of pastoral and farmer populations in the African Sahel

Genome-Wide Characterization of Arabian Peninsula Populations: Shedding Light on the History of a Fundamental Bridge between Continents

Genomic and transcriptomic characterization of the mitochondrial-rich oncocytic phenotype on a thyroid carcinoma background

Global human frequencies of predicted nuclear pathogenic variants and the role played by protein hydrophobicity in pathogenicity potential

Heterogeneity in coding mtDNA mutation rates: Implications in forensic genetics

High-resolution mtDNA evidence for the late-glacial resettlement of Europe from an Iberian refugium

Host ancestry and dengue fever: from mapping of candidate genes to prediction of worldwide genetic risk

How much more should the Y-STR Haplotype Reference Database increase to reach a pragmatic saturation level?

Human mtDNA haplogroups and reduced male fertility: real association or hidden population substructuring

Human neutral genetic variation and forensic STR data

IPCAPS: an R package for iterative pruning to capture population structure

Icelandic population data for the STR loci in the AMPFlSTR SGM Plus system and the PowerPlex Y-system

Identification of mouse inbred strains through mitochondrial DNA single-nucleotide extension

Internal diversification of mitochondrial haplogroup R0a reveals post-last glacial maximum demographic expansions in South Arabia

Internal diversification of non-Sub-Saharan haplogroups in Sahelian populations and the spread of pastoralism beyond the Sahara.

Is selection at mtDNA really a major concern?

Islands inside an island: reproductive isolates on Jerba island

Joint ancestry and association test indicate two distinct pathogenic pathways involved in classical dengue fever and dengue shock syndrome

Linking the sub-Saharan and West Eurasian gene pools: maternal and paternal heritage of the Tuareg nomads from the African Sahel

Local population structure in Arabian Peninsula revealed by Y-STR diversity

Migration of Chadic speaking pastoralists within Africa based on population structure of Chad Basin and phylogeography of mitochondrial L3f haplogroup

Mismatch distribution analysis of Y-STR haplotypes as a tool for the evaluation of identity-by-state proportions and significance of matches—the European picture

Mitochondrial DNA haplotyping revealed the presence of mixed up benign and neoplastic tissue sections from two individuals on the same prostatic biopsy slide

Mitochondrial DNA pseudogenes in the nuclear genome as possible sources of contamination

Mitochondrial DNA signals of late glacial recolonization of Europe from near eastern refugia

Mitochondrial genomes from modern horses reveal the major haplogroups that underwent domestication

Mitochondrial portrait of the Cabo Verde archipelago: the Senegambian outpost of Atlantic slave trade

Mitochondrial portraits of the Madeira and Açores archipelagos witness different genetic pools of its settlers

MtDNA GeneExtractor: a computer tool for mtDNA gene/region information extraction

MtDNA diversity among four Portuguese autochthonous dog breeds: a fine-scale characterisation

Multiplex STR genotyping: comparison study, population data and new sequence information

Mutation C11994T in the mitochondrial ND4 gene is not a cause of low sperm motility in Portugal

NIS expression in thyroid tumors, relation with prognosis clinicopathological and molecular features

Near eastern neolithic genetic input in a small oasis of the Egyptian Western Desert

No evidence for an mtDNA role in sperm motility: data from complete sequencing of asthenozoospermic males

OSBPL10, RXRA and lipid metabolism confer African-ancestry protection against dengue haemorrhagic fever in admixed Cubans

Origin and spread of human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U7.

Out of Arabia-The settlement of Island Soqotra as revealed by mitochondrial and Y chromosome genetic diversity