Dr. Esther Pomares
Coordinator of the Genetics Department
Genetics Department
Instituto de MicrocirugÃa Ocular de Barcelona
Spain
Biography
Coordinator in the Genetics Department at the Ocular Microsurgery Institute. Master’s Degree in Experimental Biology, Diploma in Advanced Studies on the Genetics Programme and Doctor of Genetics, with honours, from the University of Barcelona. Patron of the IMO Foundation since 2014. Her specialty is the genetic diagnosis and study of the molecular bases of eye diseases. She received a Training of Research Staff (FPI) grant and a CIBERER pre-doctoral contract at the UB. Later, she was working on the CIBERER post-doctoral contract, also at the University of Barcelona..
Research Interest
genetic diagnosis and study of the molecular bases of eye diseases
Publications
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Pomares E, Marfany G, Gonzà lez-Duarte R (2012) High-throughput approaches for the genetic diagnosis of retinal dystrophies. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 723: 329-335.
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Pomares E, Burés-Jelstrup A, Ruiz-Nogales S, Corcóstegui B, González-Duarte R, et al. (2012) Nonsense-mediated decay as the molecular cause for autosomal recessive bestrophinopathy in two unrelated families. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science 53: 532-537.
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De Castro-Miró M,Pomares E, Lorés L, Tonda R, Dopazo J, et al. (2014) Combined genetic and high-throughput strategies for molecular diagnosis of inherited retinal dystrophies 2: e88410.
