Dr. Ana Sofia dos Santos Teixeira
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Research AssociateContact details T: +44 (0)1865 287519 |
Ana has a Degree in Biology (Licenciatura- BSc) from the Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Portugal). She worked for a year as a research assistant at the Institute of Pathology and Molecular Immunology of University of Porto (IPATIMUP, Portugal) before starting her Ph.D. at University College London on genetic susceptibility to gastric diseases with Prof Dallas Swallow. She subsequently got a placement as a DNA data bank manager with the Medical research Council and in 2007 joined Cancer research UK as a postdoctoral researcher working in colorectal cancer with Prof Ian Tomlinson. Ana joined the Genomics group in March 2009 and is currently working in the profiling of transcription factor binding sites applying high throughput platforms to the study of Protein-DNA interactions.
Recent Publications
Howarth K, Ranta S, Winter E, Teixeira A, Schaschl H, Harvey JJ, Rowan A, Jones A, Spain S, Clark S, Guenther T, Stewart A, Silver A, Tomlinson I. (2009) A mitotic recombination map proximal to the APC locus on chromosome 5q and assessment of influences on colorectal cancer risk. BMC Med Genet 10: 54 [PMID: 19515250]
Houlston RS, Webb E, Broderick P, Pittman AM, Di Bernardo MC, Lubbe S, Chandler I, Vijayakrishnan J, Sullivan K, Penegar S; Colorectal Cancer Association Study Consortium, Carvajal-Carmona L, Howarth K, Jaeger E, Spain SL, Walther A, Barclay E, Martin L, Gorman M, Domingo E, Teixeira AS; CoRGI Consortium, Kerr D, Cazier JB, Niittymäki I, Tuupanen S, Karhu A, Aaltonen LA, Tomlinson IP, Farrington SM, Tenesa A, Prendergast JG, Barnetson RA, Cetnarskyj R, Porteous ME, Pharoah PD, Koessler T, Hampe J, Buch S, Schafmayer C, Tepel J, Schreiber S, Völzke H, Chang-Claude J, Hoffmeister M, Brenner H, Zanke BW, Montpetit A, Hudson TJ, Gallinger S; International Colorectal Cancer Genetic Association Consortium, Campbell H, Dunlop MG. (2008) Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data identifies four new susceptibility loci for colorectal cancer. Nat Genet 40(12): 1426-35 [PMID: 19011631]
Ng W, Loh AX, Teixeira AS, Pereira SP, Swallow DM. (2008) Genetic regulation of MUC1 alternative splicing in human tissues. Br J Cancer 99: 978-85 [PMID: 19238635]
Broderick P, Carvajal-Carmona L, Pittman AM, Webb E, Howarth K, Rowan A, Lubbe S, Spain S, Sullivan K, Fielding S, Jaeger E, Vijayakrishnan J, Kemp Z, Gorman M, Chandler I, Papaemmanuil E, Penegar S, Wood W, Sellick G, Qureshi M, Teixeira A, Domingo E, Barclay E, Martin L, Sieber O; CORGI Consortium, Kerr D, Gray R, Peto J, Cazier JB, Tomlinson I, Houlston RS. (2007) A genome-wide association study shows that common alleles of SMAD7 influence colorectal cancer risk. Nat Genet 39(11): 1315-7 [PMID: 17934461]
Reis CA, Teixeira A, David L (2004) Role of mucins in Helicobacter pylori adhesion to the gastric mucosa. Helicobacter 9(2): 181 (letter to the editor) [PMID: 15068421]