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Victoria Alvarez

Victoria Alvarez

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Genetics

D-Index
63
Citations
31654
World Ranking
2828
National Ranking
41

Overview

Victoria Alvarez is affiliated with the University of Oviedo in Spain and has a research focus spanning medicine, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work primarily addresses neurological and genetic aspects of disease, especially neurodegenerative conditions and infectious diseases.

The main fields of study for Victoria Alvarez include:

  • Medicine
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Their research subfields encompass:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Neurology
  • Genetics
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Physiology

Victoria Alvarez has contributed extensively to topics such as:

  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies

The scientist's published research appears in several prominent venues including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • British Journal of Surgery
  • Nature Communications
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia
  • Nature Genetics

Frequent collaborators of Victoria Alvarez include the following researchers, with whom they have coauthored extensively:

  • Merçé Boada
  • Itziar de Rojas
  • Pablo García-González
  • Pau Pástor
  • María J. Bullido

Representative recent publications illustrate the focus on neurodegenerative and infectious diseases:

  • New insights into the genetic etiology of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, 2022, Nature Genetics
  • Angiotensin-converting enzymes (ACE, ACE2) gene variants and COVID-19 outcome, 2020, Gene
  • Finding genetically-supported drug targets for Parkinson's disease using Mendelian randomization of the druggable genome, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Identification of Candidate Parkinson Disease Genes by Integrating Genome-Wide Association Study, Expression, and Epigenetic Data Sets, 2021, JAMA Neurology
  • New insights on the genetic etiology of Alzheimer's and related dementia, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Meta-analysis of 74,046 individuals identifies 11 new susceptibility loci for Alzheimer's disease

    Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Carla A Ibrahim-Verbaas;Denise Harold;Adam C Naj

  • Genome-wide association study indentifies variants at CLU and CR1 associated with Alzheimer’s disease

    J Lambert;S Heath;G Even;D Campion

  • Identification of novel risk loci, causal insights, and heritable risk for Parkinson's disease: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

    Mike A Nalls;Cornelis Blauwendraat;Costanza L Vallerga;Karl Heilbron

  • Common variants at ABCA7, MS4A6A/MS4A4E, EPHA1, CD33 and CD2AP are associated with Alzheimer's disease.

    Paul Hollingworth;Denise Harold;Rebecca Sims;Amy Gerrish

  • Gene-wide analysis detects two new susceptibility genes for Alzheimer's disease.

    Valentina Escott-Price;Céline Bellenguez;Li-San Wang;Seung-Hoan Choi

  • Rare coding variants in PLCG2, ABI3, and TREM2 implicate microglial-mediated innate immunity in Alzheimer's disease

    Rebecca Sims;Sven J. Van Der Lee;Adam C. Naj;Céline Bellenguez;Céline Bellenguez

  • APOE and Alzheimer disease: a major gene with semi-dominant inheritance

    E Genin;D Hannequin;D Wallon;K Sleegers

  • A novel Alzheimer disease locus located near the gene encoding tau protein

    G. Jun;C. A. Ibrahim-Verbaas;M. Vronskaya;J-C Lambert;J-C Lambert;J-C Lambert

  • Common variants in Alzheimer's disease and risk stratification by polygenic risk scores

    Itziar de Rojas;Itziar de Rojas;Sonia Moreno-Grau;Sonia Moreno-Grau;Niccolo Tesi;Benjamin Grenier-Boley

  • Angiotensin-converting enzymes (ACE, ACE2) gene variants and COVID-19 outcome.

    Juan Gómez;Guillermo M. Albaiceta;Marta García-Clemente;Carlos López-Larrea

  • Mutations in filamin C cause a new form of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    Rafael Valdés-Mas;Ana Gutiérrez-Fernández;Juan Gómez;Eliecer Coto

  • Profile of microRNAs in the plasma of Parkinson’s disease patients and healthy controls

    Lucía F. Cardo;Eliecer Coto;Lorena de Mena;Renée Ribacoba

  • Genome-wide haplotype association study identifies the FRMD4A gene as a risk locus for Alzheimer's disease.

    Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Jean-Charles Lambert;Benjamin Grenier-Boley;Benjamin Grenier-Boley;Benjamin Grenier-Boley;Denise Harold;Diana Zelenika

  • Mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms and risk of Parkinson's disease in Spanish population

    Cecilia Huerta;Mónica G. Castro;Eliecer Coto;Marta Blázquez

  • Identification of Candidate Parkinson Disease Genes by Integrating Genome-Wide Association Study, Expression, and Epigenetic Data Sets

    Demis A. Kia;David Zhang;Sebastian Guelfi;Claudia Manzoni

  • LRRK2 R1441G in Spanish patients with Parkinson's disease.

    Ignacio F. Mata;Julie P. Taylor;Jennifer Kachergus;Mary Hulihan

  • Assessing the role of the TREM2 p.R47H variant as a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia.

    Agustín Ruiz;Oriol Dols-Icardo;María J. Bullido;Pau Pastor

  • Evidence of the association of BIN1 and PICALM with the AD risk in contrasting European populations

    Jean Charles Lambert;Jean Charles Lambert;Jean Charles Lambert;Diana Zelenika;Mikko Hiltunen;Vincent Chouraki;Vincent Chouraki;Vincent Chouraki

  • Mitochondria function associated genes contribute to Parkinson's Disease risk and later age at onset.

    Billingsley Kj;Barbosa Ia;Bandrés-Ciga S;Quinn Jp

  • Mutational screening of the mortalin gene (HSPA9) in Parkinson's disease.

    Lorena De Mena;Eliecer Coto;Elena Sánchez-Ferrero;René Ribacoba

Frequent Co-Authors

Eliecer Coto
Eliecer Coto University of Oviedo
Julio Bobes
Julio Bobes University of Oviedo
Pau Pastor
Pau Pastor University of Navarra
Vincent Chouraki
Vincent Chouraki University of Lille
Carlos López-Larrea
Carlos López-Larrea Central University Hospital of Asturias
María J. Bullido
María J. Bullido Spanish National Research Council
Kevin Morgan
Kevin Morgan University of Nottingham
Sandro Sorbi
Sandro Sorbi University of Florence
Florence Pasquier
Florence Pasquier University of Lille

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