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Fast SARS-CoV-2 detection protocol based on RNA precipitation and RT-qPCR in nasopharyngeal swab samples (2020) Xabier Guruceaga, Amanda Sierra, Daniel Marino, Izortze Santin, Jon Ander Nieto-Garai, Jose Ramon Bilbao, Maier Lorizate, Patricia Aspichueta, coBIG (COVID19 Basque Inter-institutional Group), Ugo Mayor medRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.26.20081307

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BRAF V600E mutational load as a prognosis biomarker in malignant melanoma (2020) Sevilla A, Morales MC, Ezkurra PA, Rasero J, Velasco V, Cancho-Galan G, Sanchez-Diez A, Mujika K, Penas C, Smith I, Asumendi A, Cortes JM, Boyano MD, Alonso S. PLoS ONE 15:e0230136

Genomic analyses of human European diversity at the southwestern edge: isolation, African influence and disease associations in the Canary Islands (2018) Beatriz Guillen-Guio, Jose M Lorenzo-Salazar, Rafaela Gonzalez-Montelongo, Ana Diaz-de Usera, Itahisa Marcelino-Rodriguez, Almudena Corrales, Antonio Cabrera de Leon, Santos Alonso, Carlos Flores Mol Biol Evol 35:3010-3026

Identification of a novel locus associated with skin colour in African-admixed populations (2017) Natalia Hernandez-Pacheco, Carlos Flores, Santos Alonso, Celeste Eng, Angel C. Y. Mak, Scott Hunstman, Donglei Hu, Marquitta J. White, Sam S. Oh, Kelley Meade, Harold J. Farber, Pedro C. Avila, Denise Serebrisky, Shannon M. Thyne, Emerita Brigino-Buenaventura, William Rodriguez-Cintron, Saunak Sen, Rajesh Kumar, Michael Lenoir, Jose R. Rodriguez-Santana, Esteban G. Burchard & Maria Pino-Yanes. Sci Reports. 7:445487

Sex-specific genetic effects associated with pigmentation, sensitivity to sunlight, and melanoma in a population of Spanish origin (2016) Hernando B, Ibarrola-Villava M, Fernandez LP, Peña-Chilet M, Llorca-Cardeñosa M, Oltra SS, Alonso S, Boyano MD, Martinez-Cadenas C, Ribas G. Biol Sex Differ. 18;7:17

The mitogenome of a 35,000-year-old Homo sapiens from Europe supports a Palaeolithic back-migration to Africa (2016) M. Hervella, E. M. Svensson, A. Alberdi, T. Günther, N. Izagirre, A. R. Munters, S. Alonso, M. Ioana, F. Ridiche, A. Soficaru, M. Jakobsson, M. G. Netea, C. de-la-Rua. Sci Reports 6, Article number: 25501

Melanocytes from dark and light skin respond differently after ultraviolet B irradiation: effect of kerartinocyte –conditioned medium (2015) López S, Alonso S, García de Galdeano A, Smith-Zubiaga I. Photodermatology, Photoimmunology & Photomedicine 31:149-158

Comparison of transcriptional profiles of melanocytes from dark and light skinned individuals under basal conditions and following ultraviolet-B radiation (2015) Saioa López, Isabel Smith-Zubiaga, Alicia García de Galdeano, María Dolores Boyano, Oscar García, Jesús Gardeazábal, Conrado Martinez-Cadenas, Neskuts Izagirre, Concepción de la Rúa, Santos Alonso PLoS ONE 10(8):e0134911

Evaluation of European coeliac disease risk variants in a North Indian population (2015) Sabyasachi Senapati, Javier Gutierrez-Achury, Ajit Sood, Vandana Midha, Agata Szperl, Jihane Romanos, Alexandra Zhernakova, Lude Franke, Santos Alonso, B.K Thelma, Cisca Wijmenga and Gosia Trynka. European Journal of Human Genetics 23, 530–53 82

The interplay between natural selection and suceptibility to melanoma on allele 374F of SLC45A2 gene in a South European Population (2014) Lopez S, García O, Yurrebaso I, Flores C, Marialbert Acosta-Herrera, Hua Chen, Jesús Gardeazabal, Jesús María Careaga, María Dolores Boyano, Ana Sánchez, Juan Antonio Ratón-Nieto, Arrate Sevilla, Isabel Smith-Zubiaga, Alicia García de Galdeano, Conrado Martinez-Cadenas, Neskuts Izagirre, Concepción de la Rúa, Santos Alonso. PLoS ONE 9(8): e10436

Convergent evolution in European and Rroma populations reveals pressure exerted by plague on Toll-like receptors (2014) Laayouni H1, Oosting M, Luisi P, Ioana M, Alonso S, Ricaño-Ponce I, Trynka G, Zhernakova A, Plantinga TS, Cheng SC, van der Meer JW, Popp R, Sood A, Thelma BK, Wijmenga C, Joosten LA, Bertranpetit J, Netea MG. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111:2668-73

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Simultaneous purifying selection on the ancestral MC1R allele and positive selection on the melanoma-risk allele V60L in South Europeans (2013) C Martínez-Cadenas*, S López*, G Ribas3, C Flores, O García, A Sevilla, I Smith-Zubiaga, M Ibarrola-Villaba, M Pino-Yanes, J Gardeazabal, MD Boyano, A García de Galdeano, N Izagirre, C de la Rúa and S Alonso. Mol Biol Evol 30:2654-2665