Dr. Sánchez obtained her PhD at our laboratory in 2002 with the Thesis entitled "Hereditary hemochromatosis: study of the HFE gene and its mutations in the Spanish population". Mayka received the 2005 Social Council Award "Antoni Caparrós" of the University of Barcelona for the best thesis work that makes a significant contribution to the transfer of knowledge to society. Subsequently she performed her Post-Doctoral training with Prof. Matthias W. Hentze, in the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany. She is currently Junior Group Leader at the Cancer and Iron research laboratory in the Institute of Predictive and Personalized Medicine of Cancer (IMPPC) in Barcelona.
The publications that derived from her doctoral studies while in our team are listed below:
Publications
9: Oliva R, Novials A, Sánchez M, Villa M, Ingelmo M, Recasens M, Ascaso C, Bruguera M, Gomis R.
The HFE gene is associated to an earlier age of onset and to the presence of diabetic nephropathy in diabetes mellitus type 2.
Endocrine. 2004 Jul;24(2):111-4
8: Sánchez M, Villa M, Ingelmo M, Sanz C, Bruguera M, Ascaso C, Oliva R.
Population screening for hemochromatosis: a study in 5370 Spanish blood donors.
J Hepatol. 2003 Jun;38(6):745-50
7: Sánchez M, Bruguera M, Rodés J, Oliva R.
Complete characterization of the 3' region of the human and mouse hereditary hemochromatosis HFE gene and detection of novel splicing forms.
Blood Cells Mol Dis. 2001 Jan-Feb;27(1):35-43
6: Oliva R, Sánchez M, Bruguera M, Rodés J.
[Clinical usefulness of the detection of mutations of the HFE gene in hemochromatosis].
Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2000 Nov;23(9):433-5
5: Sánchez M, Bruguera M, Quintero E, Barrio Y, Mazzara R, Rodés J, Oliva R.
Hereditary hemochromatosis in Spain.
Genet Test. 2000;4(2):171-6
4: Sánchez M, Queralt R, Bruguera M, Rodés J, Oliva R.
Cloning, sequencing and characterization of the rat hereditary hemochromatosis promoter: comparison of the human, mouse and rat HFE promoter regions.
Gene. 1998 Dec 28;225(1-2):77-87
3: Sánchez M, Bruguera M, Bosch J, Rodés J, Ballesta F, Oliva R.
Prevalence of the Cys282Tyr and His63Asp HFE gene mutations in Spanish patients with hereditary hemochromatosis and in controls.
J Hepatol. 1998 Nov;29(5):725-8
2: Margarit E, Guillén A, Rebordosa C, Vidal-Taboada J, Sánchez M, Ballesta F, Oliva R.
Identification of conserved potentially regulatory sequences of the SRY gene from 10 different species of mammals.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1998 Apr 17;245(2):370-7
1: Vidal-Taboada JM, Bergoñón S, Sánchez M, López-Acedo C, Groet J, Nizetic D, Egeo A, Scartezzini P, Katsanis N, Fisher EM, Delabar JM, Oliva R.
High resolution physical mapping and identification of transcribed sequences in the Down syndrome region-2.
Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1998 Feb 13;243(2):572-8