Mitochondrial DNA

Introduction

Projects:

Identificación de mutaciones en el mtADN en Rattus norvegicus y su posible relación con el desarrollo de hepatocarcinoma

Noé García.

Related references:

· Kazachkova, N., Raposo, M., Montiel, R., Cymbron, T., Bettencourt, C., Silva-Fernandes, A., Silva, S., Maciel, P., Lima, P. 2012. Patterns of mitochondrial DNA damage in blood and brain tissues of a transgenic mouse model of Machado–Joseph disease. Neurodegenerative Diseases (Aceptado, MS No. 201111007). ISSN: 1660-2854.

· Ramos, A., Barbena, E., Mateiu, L., González, M.M., Mairal, Q., Lima, M., Montiel, R., Aluja, M.P., Santos, C. 2011. Nuclear insertions of mitochondrial origin: database updating and usefulness in cancer studies. Mitochondrion. 11(6): 946-953. ISSN: 1567-7249.

· Santos, C., Martínez, M., Lima, M., Hao, Y-J., Simoes, N., Montiel, R.* 2008. Mitochondrial DNA mutations in cancer. A review. Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry. 8(15): 1351-1366. ISSN: 1568-0266.

· Santos, C., Montiel, R., Arruda, A., Alvarez, L., Aluja, Mª.P., Lima, M. 2008. Mutation patterns of mtDNA: empirical inferences for the coding region. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8: 167. ISSN: 1471-2148.

· Montiel, R.*, Lucena, M.A., Medeiros, J., Simoes, N. 2006. The complete mitochondrial genome of the entomopathogenic nematode Steinernema carpocapsae: Insights into nematode mitochondrial DNA evolution and phylogeny. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 62(2): 211-225. ISSN: 0022-2844.

· Santos,C., Lima, M., Montiel, R., Aluja, M.P. 2006. Insights into the biodemographic and genetic structure of the Azores archipelago (Portugal). En: Human Genetic Isolates. C. Calò and G. Vona, Eds. Research Signpost, Kerala. p. 55-70. ISBN: 81-308-0117-5.

· Montiel, R.*, Bettencourt, C., Silva, C., Santos, C., Prata, M.J., Lima M. 2005. Analysis of Y-chromosome variability and its comparison with mtDNA variability reveals different demographic histories between islands in the Azores Archipelago (Portugal). Annals of Human Genetics. 69: 135-144. ISSN: 0003-4800.

· Santos, C., Montiel, R., Sierra, B., Bettencourt, C., Fernandez, E., Alvarez, L., Lima, M., Abade, A., Aluja, Mª.P. 2005. Understanding differences between phylogenetic and pedigree derived mtDNA mutation rate: A model using families from the Azores Islands (Portugal). Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22(6): 1490–1505. ISSN: 0737-4038.

· Santos, C., Montiel, R., Angles, N., Lima, M., Malgosa, A., Abade, A., Aluja, Mª.P. 2004. Determination of Human Caucasian Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroups by Means of a Hierarchical Approach. Human Biology. 76(3): 431-453. ISSN: 0018-7143.

· Santos, C., Lima, M., Montiel, R., Anglés, N., Pires, L., Abade, A., Aluja, M.P. 2003. Genetic structure and origin of peopling in the Azores islands (Portugal): the view from mtDNA. Annals of Human Genetics. 67: 433-456. ISSN: 0003-4800.

· Montiel, R. 2001. “Estudio diacrónico de la variabilidad del DNA mitocondrial en población catalana.” Tesis de Doctorado. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. ISBN: 84-699-7781-4 (disponible en http://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/3641).

· Francalacci, P., Montiel, R., Malgosa, A. 1999. A mitochondrial DNA database: applications to problems of nomenclature and population genetics. En: Genomic diversity: applications in human population genetics. S.S. Papiha, R. Deka, R. Chakraborty, Eds. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York. p. 103-119. ISBN: 0-306-46295-8.