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Pérez Enciso, Miguel
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ICREA Research Professor at UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Life & Medical Sciences
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I am a Biologist (BSc 1986, Universidad Complutense, Madrid), and obtained my PhD in 1990 in Genetics. After that I moved to the USA and France during three years to carry out post doctoral studies, specializing in Bayesian Statistics applied to Animal Breeding and Quantitative Genetics. I worked in Institut Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentaria (IRTA) from 1993 - 1999 and at INRA (Toulouse, France) from 1999 til 2003, when I became ICREA researcher.
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Research Interest
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Most of the genes that are of socio economic importance, e.g., genes responsible for a given disease susceptibility or that makes Iberian pig meat taste good, are very difficult to find because their effects are usually small and confounded. My main area of research is to develop statistical and computational tools that help us to identify these genes, now through the use of high throughput sequencing technology. I am also concerned with studying how man has shaped the pattern of genetic variation in livestock species, mainly in the pig, through domestication and artificial selection. A topic of particular interest is how domestic animals have adapted to extreme environment conditions (e.g., altitude, tropics) in a very short period of time.
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KeyWords
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Quantitative and Statistical Genetics, Biometry, Animal Breeding
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