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Ana María Aransay Bañares

  • Email: amaransay@cicbiogune.es
  • Phone: 944 061 325 (EXT.4421)
  • Address: Parque Tecnológico de Vizcaya
    Ed. 502 Derio (Vizcaya)
Ana M. Aransay received her B.Sc. degree in Biology (speciality: Fundamental Biology) from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in 1992. She obtained her Ph.D. at the Department of Clinical Bacteriology, Parasitology, Zoonoses and Geographical Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Crete (Greece), under the supervision of Prof. Yannis Tselentis. During the Ph.D. (granted by the Basque Government) she became familiarized with Molecular Biology techniques (isoenzymes, cloning, sequencing, PCR, PCR-RFLP, etc.) and also with diagnosis, typing, phylogeny and epidemiological studies. After receiving her PhD in 1999 she obtained two consecutive post-doctoral research grants from the Basque Country Government to carry out a project on population genetics of vectors of parasitic diseases. The post-doctoral research work was performed from 1999 to 2004, first at Entomology Department of the Natural history Museum of London (U.K.), under the supervision of Dr. Paul D. Ready and later at the National Centre of Microbiology of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III in Madrid (Spain), under the supervision of Dr. Ricardo Molina. Today she is in charge of the Genotyping platform at the Functional Genomics Department of CIC bioGUNE.

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Selected Publications

Rodríguez-Ezpeleta N, Álvarez-Busto J, Imaz L, Regueiro M, Azcárate M, Bilbao R, Iriondo M, Gil A, Estonba A, Aransay AM; High-density SNP genotyping detects homogeneity of Spanish and French Basques, and confirms their genomic distinctiveness from other European populations. Hum Genet In press, (2010).


Aransay, A.M., Matthiesen, R. and Regueiro M.M.; High throughput SNP discovery pipeline. Bioinformatics Methods in Clinical Research. Series: Methods in Molecular Biology (Humana Press Inc.) 593, (2010).


Otaegui D., Zuriarrain O., Castillo-Triviño T., Ruíz-Martinez J., Aransay A.M., Olaskoaga J., Marti-Masso J.F. and Lopez de Munain A. ; Association between SYNAPSIN III gene promoter SNPs and multiple sclerosis in Basque patients. Multiple Sclerosis Journal 15, 1, 124-8 (2009).


Collao, X., Palacios, G., Sanbonmatsu. S., Pérez-Ruiz, M., Negredo. A.I., Navarro-Marí, J.M., Grandadam, M., Aransay, A.M., Lipkin, W.I., Tenorio, A. and Sánchez-Seco M.P.; Phylogenetic analysis of Toscana virus reveals great diversity. Emerging Infectious Diseases 15, 574-574 (2009).


Santin, I., Castellanos-Rubio, A., Aransay, A.M., Gutierrez, G., Gaztambide, S., Rica, I., Vicario, J.L., Noble, J.A., Castaño, L. and Bilbao, J.R.; Exploring the diabetogenicity of the HLA-B18-DR3 CEH: independent association with T1D genetic risk close to HLA-DOA.. Genes and Immunity 10, 6, 596-600 (2009).


Hackenberg, M., Sturm, M., Langenberger, D., Falcón-Pérez, J.M. and Aransay, A.M.; miRanalyzer: a microRNA detection and analysis tool for next-generation sequencing experiments. Nucl. Acids Res. 37, W68-W76 (2009).


Castellanos-Rubio, A., Martin-Pagola, A., Santín, I., Hualde, I., Aransay, A.M., Castaño, L., Vitoria, J.C. and Bilbao, J.R.; Combined functional and positional genetic information for the identification of susceptibility genes in celiac disease. J. Gastroenterology 134, 3, 738-746 (2008).


Santín, I., Castellanos-Rubio, A., Aransay, A.M., Castaño, L., Vitoria, J.C. and Bilbao, J.R.; The functional R620W variant of the PTPN22 gene is associated with celiac disease. Tissue Antigens 71, 3, 247-9 (2008).


Martínez-Chantar M.L., Vázquez-Chantada M., Ariz U., Martínez N., Varela M., Luka Z., Capdevila A., Rodriguez J., Aransay A.M., Matthiesen R., Yang H., Calvisi D.F., Esteller M,. Fraga M., Lu S.C., Wagner C., Mato J.M.; Loss of the Glycine N-Methyltransferase Gene Leads to Steatosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Mice. Hepatology 47, 4, 1191-9 (2008).


Castellanos-Rubio, A., Martin-Pagola, A., Santín, I., Hualde, I., Aransay, A.M., Castaño, L., Vitoria, J.C. and Bilbao, J.R.; Reply to Letter (No Evidence in a Large UK Collection for Celiac Disease Risk Variants Reported by a Spanish Study). Gastroenterology 134,1630-1631 (2008).


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