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Luísa Pereira

Luísa Pereira

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
61
Citations
11602
World Ranking
11494
National Ranking
45

Overview

Luísa Pereira is affiliated with the University of Porto in Portugal and has a research focus spanning medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work concentrates on genetics, infectious diseases, surgery, molecular biology, and rheumatology, addressing topics such as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, forensic and genetic research, COVID-19 clinical studies, rheumatoid arthritis research and therapies, Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies, genetic associations, epidemiology, and SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing.

Among recent publications, Luísa Pereira is the author of the 2021 paper titled "African genetic diversity and adaptation inform a precision medicine agenda", published in Nature Reviews Genetics. Other notable recent papers in the broader research network include:

  • "Extracellular Vesicles from Pancreatic Cancer Stem Cells Lead an Intratumor Communication Network (EVNet) to fuel tumour progression" (2022, Gut)
  • "Chitinase 3-like-1 and fibronectin in the cargo of extracellular vesicles shed by human macrophages influence pancreatic cancer cellular response to gemcitabine" (2020, Cancer Letters)
  • "Papuan mitochondrial genomes and the settlement of Sahul" (2020, Journal of Human Genetics)
  • "Dynamics of a Dual SARS-CoV-2 Lineage Co-Infection on a Prolonged Viral Shedding COVID-19 Case: Insights into Clinical Severity and Disease Duration" (2021, Microorganisms)

Frequently collaborating co-authors include Bruno Cavadas, Nicole Pedro, Verónica Fernandes, Maria Salomé Gomes, and Ana C. Magalhães. This collaboration network highlights an interdisciplinary approach spanning multiple research dimensions.

The venues where the scientist has most frequently published include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Microorganisms, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Viruses, and Scientific Reports. These journals reflect a broad engagement with infectious diseases, molecular biology, and immunology fields.

Best Publications

  • Y-Chromosomal Diversity in Europe Is Clinal and Influenced Primarily by Geography, Rather than by Language

    Zoë H. Rosser;Tatiana Zerjal;Matthew E. Hurles;Maarja Adojaan

  • The dawn of human matrilineal diversity.

    Doron M. Behar;Richard Villems;Himla Soodyall;Jason Blue-Smith

  • The genome-wide structure of the Jewish people

    Doron M. Behar;Bayazit Yunusbayev;Bayazit Yunusbayev;Mait Metspalu;Ene Metspalu

  • The Expansion of mtDNA Haplogroup L3 within and out of Africa

    Pedro Soares;Farida Alshamali;Joana B. Pereira;Joana B. Pereira;Verónica Fernandes;Verónica Fernandes

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

    Alessandro Achilli;Anna Olivieri;Pedro Soares;Hovirag Lancioni

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

    Etienne Patin;Etienne Patin;Marie Lopez;Marie Lopez;Rebecca Grollemund;Rebecca Grollemund;Paul Verdu

  • Mitochondrial DNA Signals of Late Glacial Recolonization of Europe from Near Eastern Refugia

    Maria Pala;Maria Pala;Maria Pala;Anna Olivieri;Alessandro Achilli;Alessandro Achilli;Matteo Accetturo

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

    Luísa Pereira;Martin B. Richards;Ana Goios;Antonio Alonso

  • Prehistoric and historic traces in the mtDNA of Mozambique: insights into the Bantu expansions and the slave trade

    Luísa Pereira;Vincent Macaulay;Antonio Torroni;Antonio Torroni;Rosaria Scozzari

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

    António Amorim;Luísa Pereira

  • The Matrilineal Ancestry of Ashkenazi Jewry: Portrait of a Recent Founder Event

    Doron M. Behar;Ene Metspalu;Toomas Kivisild;Alessandro Achilli

  • The Arabian Cradle: Mitochondrial Relicts of the First Steps along the Southern Route out of Africa

    Verónica Fernandes;Verónica Fernandes;Farida Alshamali;Marco Alves;Marta D. Costa;Marta D. Costa

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

    Doron M. Behar;Ene Metspalu;Toomas Kivisild;Toomas Kivisild;Saharon Rosset

  • Diversity of mtDNA lineages in Portugal: not a genetic edge of European variation.

    L. Pereira;M. J. Prata;A. Amorim

  • The Diversity Present in 5140 Human Mitochondrial Genomes

    Luísa Pereira;Fernando Freitas;Verónica Fernandes;Joana B. Pereira

  • Genetic Signatures of a Mediterranean Influence in Iberian Peninsula Sheep Husbandry

    Filipe Pereira;Simon J. M. Davis;Luísa Pereira;Brian McEvoy

  • Resolving the ancestry of Austronesian-speaking populations

    Pedro A. Soares;Pedro A. Soares;Pedro A. Soares;Jean A. Trejaut;Teresa Rito;Teresa Rito;Bruno Cavadas;Bruno Cavadas

  • The first modern human dispersals across Africa.

    Teresa Rito;Martin B. Richards;Verónica Fernandes;Verónica Fernandes;Farida Alshamali

  • Comparing Phylogeny and the Predicted Pathogenicity of Protein Variations Reveals Equal Purifying Selection across the Global Human mtDNA Diversity

    Luísa Pereira;Pedro Soares;Predrag Radivojac;Biao Li

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

    Miguel Melo;Adriana Gaspar da Rocha;Adriana Gaspar da Rocha;Rui Batista;João Vinagre

Frequent Co-Authors

António Amorim
António Amorim University of Lisbon
Martin B. Richards
Martin B. Richards University of Huddersfield
Leonor Gusmão
Leonor Gusmão Rio de Janeiro State University
Vincent Macaulay
Vincent Macaulay University of Glasgow
Anavaj Sakuntabhai
Anavaj Sakuntabhai Institut Pasteur
Antonio Torroni
Antonio Torroni University of Pavia
Paula Soares
Paula Soares University of Porto
David C. Samuels
David C. Samuels Vanderbilt University
Richard Villems
Richard Villems University of Tartu

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