RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS
Forensic and population genetics

EDUCATION
Jan 2007:
PhD student
Faculty of Medicine and Odontology of the University of Santiago de Compostela; IPATIMUP.
Project: “Bridging the gap between Short Tandem Repeats (STRs) and Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs)”

Oct 2003 – Oct 2006:
MSc student in Forensic Sciences
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto; IPATIMUP.
Thesis theme: “X Chromosome markers: genetic profile of northern Portuguese population and forensic applications”

Out 1994 – Set 1999:
Degree in Biology
Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

van Asch B, Pinheiro R, Pereira R, Alves C, Pereira V, Pereira F, Gusmão L, Amorim, A.
A framework for the development of STR genotyping in domestic animal species: Characterisation and population study of twelve canine X-chromosome loci.
Electrophoresis (accepted).

Gomes I, Prinz M, Pereira R, Meyers C, Mikulasovich RS, Amorim A, Carracedo A, Gusmão L.
Genetic analysis of three US population groups using an X-chromosomal STR decaplex.
Int J Legal Med. 2007. 121:198-203.

Gomes I, Alves C, Maxzud K, Pereira R, Prata MJ, Sánchez-Diz P, Carracedo A, Amorim A, Gusmão L.
Analysis of 10 X-STRs in three African Populations.
Forensic Sci Int: Genetics. 2007. 1: 208-211.

Pereira R, Gomes I, Amorim A, Gusmão, L.
Genetic diversity of 10 X chromosome STRs in northern Portugal.
Int J Legal Med. 2007. 121:192-197.