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Doctor Alex Couto Alves

Dr Alex Couto Alves

Senior Lecturer in Statistical Genomics

Accepting applications from PhD students.

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Email: A.Couto-Alves@soton.ac.uk

Tel: +44 23 8059 1083

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Publications Biography
Publications Biography

Publications

55 publications
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1, 5 Anhydroglucitol serum concentration as a biomarker for screening gestational diabetes in early pregnancy
Kátia Cristina Boritza, Izabella Castilhos Ribeiro Dos Santos-Weiss, Alexessander Couto Alves, Rosângela Roginski Réa, Fábio de Oliveira Pedrosa, Emanuel Maltempi de Souza, Geraldo Picheth & Fabiane Gomes De Moraes Rego, 2014, Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), 52(8)
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2013-1042
Type: article
Telomere length in circulating leukocytes is associated with lung function and disease
E. Albrecht, E. Sillanpää, S. Karrasch, A.C. Alves, V. Codd, I. Hovatta, J.L. Buxton, C.P. Nelson, L. Broer, S. Hägg, M. Mangino, G. Willemsen, I. Surakka, M.A.R. Ferreira, N. Amin, B.A. Oostra, H.M. Bäckmand, M. Peltonen, S. Sarna, T. Rantanen, S. Sipilä, T. Korhonen, P.A.F. Madden, C. Gieger, R.A. Jörres, J. Heinrich, J. Behr, R.M. Huber, A. Peters, K. Strauch, H.E. Wichmann, M. Waldenberger, A.I.F. Blakemore, E.J.C. De Geus, D.R. Nyholt, A.K. Henders, P.L. Piirilä, A. Rissanen, P.K.E. Magnusson, A. Viñuela, K.H. Pietiläinen, N.G. Martin, N.L. Pedersen, D.I. Boomsma, T.D. Spector, C.M. Van Duijn, J. Kaprio, N.J. Samani, M.-R. Jarvelin & H. Schulz, 2014, European Respiratory Journal, 43, 983-992
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00046213
Type: article
RAGE receptor and its soluble isoforms in diabetes mellitus complications
Mauren Isfer Anghebem Oliveira, Emanuel Maltempi de Souza, Fábio de Oliveira Pedrosa, Rosângela Roginski Réa, Alexessander Couto Alves, Geraldo Picheth & Fabiane Gomes de Moraes Rego, 2013, Jornal Brasileiro de Patologia e Medicina Laboratorial
DOI: 10.1590/s1676-24442013000200004
Type: article
Genome-wide association studies of asthma in population-based cohorts confirm known and suggested loci and identify an additional association near HLA
Alexessander Couto Alves, Adaikalavan Ramasamy, Mikko Kuokkanen & Sailaja Vedantam, 2012, PLoS ONE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044008
Type: article
Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of single nucleotide polymorphisms in selected genes of the WNT signaling pathway
Alexessander Couto Alves, 2012
Type: conference
Characterization of data analysis methods for information recovery from metabolic 1 H NMR spectra using artificial complex mixtures
Alexessander Couto Alves, Jia V. Li, Isabel Garcia-Perez, Caroline Sands, Coral Barbas, Elaine Holmes & Timothy M.D. Ebbels, 2012, Metabolomics
DOI: 10.1007/s11306-012-0422-8
Type: article
Novel association approach for variable number tandem repeats (VNTR) identifies DOCK5 as a susceptibility gene for severe obesity
J.S. El-Sayed Moustafa, H. Eleftherohorinou, A.J. De Smith, J.C. Andersson-Assarsson, A. Couto Alves, E. Hadjigeorgiou, R.G. Walters, J.E. Asher, L. Bottolo, J.L. Buxton, R. Sladek, D. Meyre, C. Dina, S. Visvikis-Siest, P. Jacobson, L. Sjöström, L.M. Carlsson, A. Walley, M. Falchi, P. Froguel, A.I. Blakemore & L.J. Coin, 2012, Human Molecular Genetics, 21(16), 3727–3738
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/dds187
Type: article
Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies three new risk loci for atopic dermatitis
Alexessander Couto Alves, Lavinia Paternoster, Marie Standl, Chih-Mei Chen & Adaikalavan Ramasamy, 2011, Nature Genetics, 44(2), 187 - 192
DOI: 10.1038/ng.1017
Type: article
Bioinformatics methods for the analysis of metabolic profiles
Alexessander Couto Alves, 2011
Type: thesis
Optimization and evaluation of metabolite extraction protocols for untargeted metabolic profiling of liver samples by UPLC-MS
Perrine Masson, Alexessander Couto Alves, Timothy M.D. Ebbels, Jeremy K. Nicholson & Elizabeth Want, 2010, Analytical Chemistry, 82(18)
DOI: 10.1021/ac101722e
Type: article