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Bioinformatics Specialist- Associated Professor at UTRGV School of Medicine
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Subject Matter Expertise
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Work Experience
Assistant Professor
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
December 2018 - Present 
Assistant Professor
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
November 2015 - Present
Education
PHD (Bioinformatics)
University of Sao Paulo
January 2010 - April 2010
PHD
University of Sao Paulo
January 2006 - April 2010
Certifications
- Certification details not provided.
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jun, Goo and Manning, Alisa and Almeida, Marcio and Zawistowski, Matthew and Wood, Andrew R and Teslovich, Tanya M and Fuchsberger, Christian and Feng, Shuang and Cingolani, Pablo and Gaulton, Kyle J and others(2018). Evaluating the contribution of rare variants to type 2 diabetes and related traits using pedigrees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 379--384. National Acad Sciences
Lake, Nicole J and Taylor, Rachael L and Trahair, Hugh and Harikrishnan, KN and Curran, Joanne E and Almeida, Marcio and Kulkarni, Hemant and Mukhamedova, Nigora and Hoang, Anh and Low, Hann and others(2017). TRAK2, a novel regulator of ABCA1 expression, cholesterol efflux and HDL biogenesis. European heart journal. 38. (48). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 3579--3587. Oxford University Press
Knowles, Emma EM and Kent Jr, Jack W and McKay, D Reese and Sprooten, Emma and Mathias, Samuel R and Curran, Joanne E and Carless, Melanie A and de Almeida, Marcio AA and Harald, HH Goring and Dyer, Tom D and others(2016). Genome-wide linkage on chromosome 10q26 for a dimensional scale of major depression. Journal of affective disorders. 191. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 123--131. Elsevier
Nicholson, Alexandra M and Finch, NiCole A and Almeida, Marcio and Perkerson, Ralph B and Van Blitterswijk, Marka and Wojtas, Aleksandra and Cenik, Basar and Rotondo, Sergio and Inskeep, Venette and Almasy, Laura and others(2016). Prosaposin is a regulator of progranulin levels and oligomerization. Nature communications. 7. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 11992. Nature Publishing Group
Mathias, Samuel R and Knowles, Emma EM and Kent Jr, Jack W and Mckay, D Reese and Curran, Joanne E and de Almeida, Marcio AA and Dyer, Thomas D and G{\"o}ring, Harald HH and Olvera, Rene L and Duggirala, Ravi and others(2016). Recurrent major depression and right hippocampal volume: a bivariate linkage and association study. Human brain mapping. 37. (1). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 191--202.
Knowles, Emma EM and McKay, D Reese and Kent Jr, Jack W and Sprooten, Emma and Carless, Melanie A and Curran, Joanne E and de Almeida, Marcio AA and Dyer, Thomas D and G{\"o}ring, Harald HH and Olvera, Rene L and others(2015). Pleiotropic locus for emotion recognition and amygdala volume identified using univariate and bivariate linkage. American Journal of Psychiatry. 172. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 190--199. American Psychiatric Association Arlington, VA
Kos, Mark Z and Carless, Melanie A and Peralta, Juan and Blackburn, August and Almeida, Marcio and Roalf, David and Pogue-Geile, Michael F and Prasad, Konasale and Gur, Ruben C and Nimgaonkar, Vishwajit and others(2015). Exome sequence data from multigenerational families implicate AMPA receptor trafficking in neurocognitive impairment and schizophrenia risk. Schizophrenia bulletin. 42. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 288--300. Oxford University Press US
Blackburn, August and Almeida, Marcio and Dean, Angela and Curran, Joanne E and Johnson, Matthew P and Moses, Eric K and Abraham, Lawrence J and Carless, Melanie A and Dyer, Thomas D and Kumar, Satish and others(2015). Effects of copy number variable regions on local gene expression in white blood cells of Mexican Americans. European Journal of Human Genetics. 23. (9). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1229. Nature Publishing Group
Wood, Andrew R and Tuke, Marcus A and Nalls, Mike and Hernandez, Dena and Gibbs, J Raphael and Lin, Haoxiang and Xu, Christopher S and Li, Qibin and Shen, Juan and Jun, Goo and others(2014). Whole-genome sequencing to understand the genetic architecture of common gene expression and biomarker phenotypes. Human molecular genetics. 24. (5). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1504--1512. Oxford University Press
Toledo, Rodrigo Almeida and Hatanaka, Roxanne and Louren{\c{c}}o, Delmar M and Lindsey, Susan C and Camacho, Cleber P and Almeida, Marcio and Lima-Jr, Jose Viana and Sekiya, Tomoko and Garralda, Elena and Naslavsky, Michel and others(2014). Comprehensive assessment of the disputed RET Y791F shows no association with MTC susceptibility. Endocrine-related cancer. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString ERC--14. Soc Endocrinology
Knowles, Emma EM and Carless, Melanie A and de Almeida, Marcio AA and Curran, Joanne E and McKay, D Reese and Sprooten, Emma and Dyer, Thomas D and G{\"o}ring, Harald H and Olvera, Rene and Fox, Peter and others(2014). Genome-wide significant localization for working and spatial memory: Identifying genes for psychosis using models of cognition. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics. 165. (1). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 84--95.
Bellis, Claire and Kulkarni, Hemant and Mamtani, Manju and Kent Jr, Jack W and Wong, Gerard and Weir, Jacquelyn M and Barlow, Christopher K and Diego, Vincent and Almeida, Marcio and Dyer, Thomas D and others(2014). Human plasma lipidome is pleiotropically associated with cardiovascular risk factors and death. Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics. 7. (6). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 854--863. Am Heart Assoc
Kulkarni, Hemant and Meikle, Peter J and Mamtani, Manju and Weir, Jacquelyn M and Almeida, Marcio and Diego, Vincent and Peralta, Juan Manuel and Barlow, Christopher K and Bellis, Claire and Dyer, Thomas D and others(2014). Plasma lipidome is independently associated with variability in metabolic syndrome in Mexican American families. Journal of lipid research. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString jlr--M044065. ASBMB
Stein, Jason L and Medland, Sarah E and Vasquez, Alejandro Arias and Hibar, Derrek P and Senstad, Rudy E and Winkler, Anderson M and Toro, Roberto and Appel, Katja and Bartecek, Richard and Bergmann, {\O}rjan and others(2012). Identification of common variants associated with human hippocampal and intracranial volumes. Nature genetics. 44. (5). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 552. Nature Publishing Group
Castillo, Hozana A and Cravo, Roberta M and Azambuja, Ana P and Sim{\~o}es-Costa, Marcos S and Sura-Trueba, Sylvia and Gonzalez, Jose and Slonimsky, Esfir and Almeida, Karla and Abreu, Jos{\'e} G and de Almeida, Marcio A Afonso and others(2010). Insights into the organization of dorsal spinal cord pathways from an evolutionarily conserved raldh2 intronic enhancer. Development. 137. (3). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 507--518. Oxford University Press for The Company of Biologists Limited
CONFERENCE PAPER
Friedrichs, Stefanie and Malzahn, D{\"o}rthe and Pugh, Elizabeth W and Almeida, Marcio and Liu, Xiao Qing and Bailey, Julia N(2016). Filtering genetic variants and placing informative priors based on putative biological function. BMC genetics. 17. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString S8.
Blangero, John and Teslovich, Tanya M and Sim, Xueling and Almeida, Marcio A and Jun, Goo and Dyer, Thomas D and Johnson, Matthew and Peralta, Juan M and Manning, Alisa and Wood, Andrew R and others(2016). Omics-squared: human genomic, transcriptomic and phenotypic data for Genetic Analysis Workshop 19. BMC proceedings. 10. (7). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 20.
Peralta, Juan M and Almeida, Marcio and Kent, Jack W and Blangero, John(2014). A variance component-based gene burden test. BMC proceedings. 8. (1). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString S49.
Almasy, Laura and Dyer, Thomas D and Peralta, Juan M and Jun, Goo and Wood, Andrew R and Fuchsberger, Christian and Almeida, Marcio A and Kent, Jack W and Fowler, Sharon and Blackwell, Tom W and others(2014). Data for Genetic Analysis Workshop 18: human whole genome sequence, blood pressure, and simulated phenotypes in extended pedigrees. BMC proceedings. 8. (1). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString S2.
BOOK CHAPTER
Blangero, John and Diego, Vincent P and Dyer, Thomas D and Almeida, Marcio and Peralta, Juan and Kent Jr, Jack W and Williams, Jeff T and Almasy, Laura and G{\"o}ring, Harald HH(2013). A kernel of truth: statistical advances in polygenic variance component models for complex human pedigrees. Advances in genetics. 81. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1--31. Elsevier
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