Human genetic disorders: linking mendelian and complex diseases

• Autores: Nino Spataro
• Directores de la Tesis: Elena Bosch (dir. tes.)
• Lectura: En la Universitat Pompeu Fabra ( España ) en 2016
• Idioma: español
• Tribunal Calificador de la Tesis: Adolfo López de Munain Arregui (presid.), L. A. Pérez Jurado (secret.), Óscar Lao Grueso (voc.)
• Programa de doctorado: Programa de Doctorado en Biomedicina por la Universidad Pompeu Fabra
• Materias:
  • Ciencias de la vida
    • Biología humana
      • Genética humana
    • Biología vegetal (botánica)
• Enlaces
  • Tesis en acceso abierto en: TDX
• Resumen

  • From Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”, many years elapsed before human diseases were considered in an evolutionary framework. Besides theoretical and empirical advances, we are far from the complete understanding of disease aetiology. Highly penetrant disorders with Mendelian inheritance are mostly explained by the mutation-selection balance model, which is insufficient to describe the selective pressures acting on the full set of alleles related to diseases. We show in the first two papers that Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies provide a unique opportunity to investigate variation and contribute to the understanding of the genetic architecture of disease. Besides exploring the role of rare and copy number variants in Parkinson’s disease (PD), we demonstrate the functional relation between Mendelian and idiopathic PD. In the last paper, we report that variation in genes previously related to Mendelian disorders has a more important role in driving complex disease susceptibility than genes associated only to complex diseases.