Browsing by Author "Vicuña, Lucas"

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    Adaptation to Extreme Environments in an Admixed Human Population from the Atacama Desert
    (2019) Vicuña, Lucas; Fernández, Mario I.; Vial, Cecilia; Valdebenito, Patricio; Chaparro, Eduardo; Espinoza, Karena; Ziegler, Annemarie; Bustamante, Alberto; Eyheramendy Duerr, Susana
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    Correction to: Novel loci and mapuche genetic ancestry are associated with pubertal growth traits in Chilean boys (Human Genetics, (2021), 10.1007/s00439-021-02290-3)
    (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021) Vicuña, Lucas; Norambuena, Tomás; Miranda, José Patricio; Eyheramendy, Susana; Pereira, Ana; Mericq, Verónica; Ongaro, Linda; Montinaro, Francesco; Lorenzoni Santos, José Guillermo
    © 2021, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.Several typos were introduced in the original article and they have been corrected. The original article has been revised.
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    Galectin-8 binds to LFA-1, blocks its interaction with ICAM-1 and is counteracted by anti-Gal-8 autoantibodies isolated from lupus patients
    (2013) Vicuña, Lucas; Pardo, Evelyn; Curkovic, Cristóbal; Doger, Remziye; Oyanadel, Claudia; Metz Baer, Claudia Andrea; Massardo Vega, Loreto; González de la Rosa, Alfonso; Soza Gajardo, Andrea
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    Galectin-8 mediates fibrogenesis induced by cyclosporine in human gingival fibroblasts
    (2020) Patricio C. Smith; Metz Baer, Claudia Andrea; Peña, Adely de la; Oyanadel, Claudia; Ávila, Patricio; Arancibia, Rodrigo; Vicuña, Lucas; Retamal Villarroel, Claudio Enrique; Barake Sabbagh, M. Francisca; González de la Rosa, Alfonso; Soza Gajardo, Andrea
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    New insights from GWAS on BMI-related growth traits in a longitudinal cohort of admixed children with Native American and European ancestry
    (CELL PRESS, 2023) Vicuña, Lucas; Barrientos, Esteban; Norambuena, Tomás; Alvares, Danilo; Gana Ansaldo, Juan Cristóbal; Leiva Yamaguchi, Valeria; Meza, Cristian; Lorenzoni Santos, José Guillermo; Mericq, Verónica; Pereira, Ana; Eyheramendy, Susana
    Body-mass index (BMI) is a hallmark of adiposity. In contrast with adulthood, the genetic architecture of BMI during childhood is poorly understood. The few genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on children have been performed almost exclusively in Europeans and at single ages. We performed cross-sectional and longitudinal GWAS for BMI-related traits on 904 admixed children with mostly Mapuche Native American and European ancestries. We found regulatory variants of the immune gene HLA-DQB3 strongly associated with BMI at 1.5 - 2.5 years old. A variant in the sex-determining gene DMRT1 was associated with the age at adiposity rebound (Age-AR) in girls (P = 9.8 x 10(-9)). BMI was significantly higher in Mapuche than in Europeans between 5.5 and 16.5 years old. Finally, Age-AR was significantly lower (P = 0.004) by 1.94 years and BMI at AR was significantly higher (P = 0.04) by 1.2 kg/m(2), in Mapuche children compared with Europeans.
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    Postadmixture Selection on Chileans Targets Haplotype Involved in Pigmentation, Thermogenesis and Immune Defense against Pathogens
    (2020) Vicuña, Lucas ; Klimenkova, Olga ; Norambuena, Tomás; Martinez, Felipe I.; Fernandez, Mario I.; Shchur, Vladimir ; Eyheramendy, Susana ; Yi, Soojin
    Detection of positive selection signatures in populations around the world is helping to uncover recent human evolutionary history as well as the genetic basis of diseases. Most human evolutionary genomic studies have been performed in European, African, and Asian populations. However, populations with Native American ancestry have been largely underrepresented. Here, we used a genome-wide local ancestry enrichment approach complemented with neutral simulations to identify postadmixture adaptations underwent by admixed Chileans through gene flow from Europeans into local Native Americans. The top significant hits (P=2.4x10(-7)) are variants in a region on chromosome 12 comprising multiple regulatory elements. This region includes rs12821256, which regulates the expression of KITLG, a well-known gene involved in lighter hair and skin pigmentation in Europeans as well as in thermogenesis. Another variant from that region is associated with the long noncoding RNA RP11-13A1.1, which has been specifically involved in the innate immune response against infectious pathogens. Our results suggest that these genes were relevant for adaptation in Chileans following the Columbian exchange.