Spínola C, Bruges-Armas J, Brehm A, Spínola H. HLA-A polymorphisms in four ethnic groups from Guinea-Bissau (West Africa) inferred from sequence-based typing. 2008 Tissue Antigens, 72(6):593-8. »PubMed

Sims AM, Timms AE, Bruges-Armas J, Burgos-Vargas R, Chou CT, Doan T, Dowling A, Fialho RN, Gergely P, Gladman DD, Inman R, Kauppi M, Kaarela K, Laiho K, Maksymowych W, Pointon JJ, Rahman P, Reveille JD, Sorrentino R, Tuomilehto J, Vargas-Alarcon G, Wordsworth BP, Xu H, Brown MA; International Genetics of Ankylosing Spondylitis. Prospective meta-analysis of interleukin 1 gene complex polymorphisms confirms associations with ankylosing spondylitis. 2008 Ann Rheum Dis;67(9):1305-9 »PubMed

Díaz-Peña R, Blanco-Gelaz MA, Suárez-Alvarez B, Martínez-Borra J, López-Vázquez A, Alonso-Arias R, Brüges-Armas J, Vidal-Castiñeira JR, López-Larrea C. Activating KIR genes are associated with ankylosing spondylitis in Asian populations. 2008 Hum Immunol;69(7):437-42 »PubMed

Langdahl BL, Uitterlinden AG, Ralston SH, Trikalinos TA, Balcells S, Brandi ML, Scollen S, Lips P, Lorenc R, Obermayer-Pietsch B, Reid DM, Armas JB, Arp PP, Bassiti A, Bustamante M, Husted LB, Carey AH, Pérez Cano R, Dobnig H, Dunning AM, Fahrleitner-Pammer A, Falchetti A, Karczmarewicz E, Kruk M, van Leeuwen JP, Masi L, van Meurs JB, Mangion J, McGuigan FE, Mellibovsky L, Mosekilde L, Nogués X, Pols HA, Reeve J, Renner W, Rivadeneira F, van Schoor NM, Ioannidis JP; APOSS Investigators; DOPS investigators; EPOS investigators; EPOLOS investigators; FAMOS investigators; LASA investigators; ERGO investigators; GENOMOS Study.  Large-scale analysis of association between polymorphisms in the transforming growth factor beta 1 gene (TGFB1) and osteoporosis: the GENOMOS study. 2008 Bone;42(5):969-81 »PubMed

Dutra I, Santos MR, Soares M, Couto AR, Bruges-Armas M, Teixeira F, Monjardino L, Hodgson S, Bruges-Armas J.  Characterisation of human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes in the Azorean population, Terceira island. 2008 Infect Agent Cancer »PubMed

Bettencourt BF, Santos MR, Fialho RN, Couto AR, Peixoto MJ, Pinheiro JP, Spínola H, Mora MG, Santos C, Brehm A, Bruges-Armas J. Evaluation of two methods for computational HLA haplotypes inference using a real dataset. 2008 BMC Bioinformatics »PubMed

Bettencourt C, Fialho RN, Santos C, Montiel R, Bruges-Armas J, Maciel P, Lima M. Segregation distortion of wild-type alleles at the Machado-Joseph disease locus: a study in normal families from the Azores islands (Portugal). 2008 J Hum Genet »PubMed