RESEARCH ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS
- Population Genetics
- Study of Y chromosome markers in human populations

EDUCATION 
2008 at present:
PhD student
“Ethnicity and genetics in Sub-Saharan Africa” University of Santiago de Compostela
2006:
Traineeship in population genetics, IPATIMUP
2002/2006:
Degree in Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto.
 
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Fregel R, Gomes V, Gusmão L, González AM, Cabrera VM, Amorim A, Larruga JM.
Demographic history of Canary Islands male gene-pool: replacement of native lineages by European.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2009, 9:181.

Gomes V, Alves C, Amorim A, Carracedo A, Sánchez-Diz P, Gusmão L.
Nilotes from Karamoja, Uganda: Haplotype data defined by 17 Y-chromosome STRs.
Forensic Science International: Genetics 2009, 3: e127-e128.

Gomes I, Pereira V, Gomes V, Prata MJ, Pinto Nádia, Carracedo A, Amorim A, Gusmão L.
The Karimojong from Uganda: genetic characterization using an X-STR decaplex system.
Forensic Science International: Genetics 2009, 3(4):e127-8.

Gomes V,Sánchez-Diz P,Alves C,Gomes I,Amorim A,Carracedo A,Gusmão L.
Population data defined by 15 autosomal STR loci in Karamoja population (Uganda) using AmpF/STR Identifiler kit.
Forensic Science International: Genetics 2009, 3:e55-e58.

Gusmão A, Gusmão L, Gomes V, Alves C, Calafell F, Amorim A, Prata MJ.
A perspective on the history of the Iberian Gypsies provided by phylogeographic analysis of Y-chromosome lineages.
Annals of Human Genetics 2008 Mar;72(Pt 2):215-27.

Alves C, Gomes V, Prata MJ, Amorim A, Gusmão L.
Population data for Y-Chromosome haplotypes defined by 17 STRs (AmpFISTR YFILER) in Portugal.
Forensic Science International 2007, 171:250-5.

RESEARCH PROJECTS
PTDC/ANT/70413/2006
“A comunidade cigana portuguesa: a história demográfica à luz dos padrões de diversidade genética.”