This paper identifies a FOXO/Tribbles mRNA signature that predicts poor survival in glioma patients, particularly in grade 4 gliomas, across multiple cohorts.

Oncology Research Featuring Preclinical and Clinical Cancer Therapeutics · Jan 1, 2026Peer-reviewedCancer Biology

Germline Allelic Expression of Genes at 17q22 Locus Associates with Risk of Breast Cancer

Filipa Esteves, Joana M. Xavier, Anthony M. Ford, Cátia Rocha, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Carlos Caldas, Suet‐Feung Chin, Ana-Teresa Maia

The paper identifies risk alleles at the 17q22 locus associated with breast cancer by analyzing allelic expression ratios in case-control studies.

European Journal of Cancer · Jun 27, 2022Peer-reviewedGenetic & Genomic Medicine

Mapping of cis-regulatory variants by differential allelic expression analysis identifies candidate causal variants and target genes of 41 breast cancer risk loci

Joana M. Xavier, Ramiro Magno, Roslin Russell, Bernardo P. de Almeida, Ana Jacinta-Fernandes, André Besouro-Duarte, Mark Dunning, Shamith Samarajiwa, Martin O’Reilly, António M. Maia, Cátia Rocha, Nordiana Rosli, Bruce A.J. Ponder, Ana-Teresa Maia

medRxiv · Mar 8, 2022 · PreprintGenetic & Genomic Medicine

quincunx: an R package to query, download and wrangle PGS Catalog data

Ramiro Magno, Isabel Duarte, Ana-Teresa Maia

quincunx provides an R interface to query and manage polygenic score data from the PGS Catalog.

Bioinformatics · Jul 12, 2021Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

gwasrapidd: an R package to query, download and wrangle GWAS Catalog data

Ramiro Magno, Ana-Teresa Maia

gwasrapidd is an R package that provides access to the GWAS Catalog REST API for retrieving and analyzing GWAS data.

Bioinformatics · Aug 1, 2019Peer-reviewedBioinformatics