Dr Marco Ferreira Fernandes
Bioinformatician
Research areas
PostDoc Supervision
- Víctor Velasco-Pardo
Project title: Prediction of Brain Amyloid Positivity from Blood-based Biomarkers to Accelerate Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Research
29/02/24 → 28/03/25
PhD Supervision
- Hasnain Ahmed
Project title: Assessment of the predictive value of plasma proteins in oesophageal adenocarcinoma treatment
2/08/24 → 26/10/25
MSc Supervision
- Bruin Snow
Project title: Predicting Biomarkers of Differential Accelerated Brain Aging between Patients with Alzheimer's Disease
26/05/25 → 12/08/25
- Ece Sagiroglu
Project title: Multi-OMICs Data Integration for Alzheimer's Disease Prediction
26/05/25 → 12/08/25
BSc (Honours) Supervision
- Sukannya Sarwar
Project title: Does insulin resistance change the rate of Alzheimer’s Disease progression?
03/02/24 → 16/04/25
Selected publications
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Open access
Genome-wide association neural networks identify genes linked to family history of Alzheimer's disease
Ghose, U., Sproviero, W., Winchester, L., Amin, N., Zhu, T., Newby, D., Ulm, B. S., Papathanasiou, A., Shi, L., Liu, Q., Fernandes, M., Adams, C., Albukhari, A., Almansouri, M., Choudhry, H., van Duijn, C. & Nevado-Holgado, A., 8 Jan 2025, In: Briefings in Bioinformatics. 26, 1, 10 p., bbae704.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Quantitative proteomics identifies plasma protein alterations that associate with metabolic and thrombotic profile changes after bariatric surgery
Ahmed, H., Fernandes, M. F., Abbas, K., Synowsky, S. A., Shirran, S. L., Ajjan, R. A. & Stewart, A. J., May 2025, In: Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. 27, 5, p. 2647-2657 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Interplay of metabolome and gut microbiome in individuals with major depressive disorder vs control individuals
Amin, N., Liu, J., Bonnechere, B., Mahmoudiandehkordi, S., Arnold, M., Batra, R., Chiou, Y. J., Fernandes, M., Ikram, M. A., Kraaij, R., Krumsiek, J., Newby, D., Nho, K., Radjabzadeh, D., Saykin, A. J., Shi, L., Sproviero, W., Winchester, L., Yang, Y. & Nevado-Holgado, A. J. & 3 others, , 7 Jun 2023, In: JAMA Psychiatry. 80, 6, p. 597-609 13 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Comparative effect of metformin versus sulfonylureas with dementia and Parkinson's disease risk in US patients over 50 with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Newby, D., Linden, A. B., Fernandes, M., Molero, Y., Winchester, L., Sproviero, W., Ghose, U., Li, Q. S., Launer, L. J., Duijn, C. M. V. & Nevado-Holgado, A. J., 15 Sept 2022, In: BMJ Open Diabetes Research and Care. 10, 5, e003036.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Gene Ontology (GO)-driven inference of candidate proteomic markers associated with muscle atrophy conditions
Stalmach, A., Boehm, I., Fernandes, M., Rutter, A., Skipworth, R. J. E. & Husi, H., 27 Aug 2022, In: Molecules. 27, 17, 5514.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Glycosylated clusterin species facilitate Aβ toxicity in human neurons
Foster, E. M., Fernandes, M., Dangla-Valls, A., Hublitz, P., Pangalos, M., Lovestone, S., Ribe, E. M. & Buckley, N. J., 3 Nov 2022, In: Scientific Reports. 12, 18639.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Validation of UK Biobank data for mental health outcomes: a pilot study using secondary care electronic health records
Li, Z., Kormilitzin, A., Fernandes, M., Vaci, N., Liu, Q., Newby, D., Goodday, S., Smith, T., Nevado-Holgado, A. J. & Winchester, L., Apr 2022, In: International Journal of Medical Informatics. 160, 104704.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
High blood pressure and risk of dementia: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study in the UK biobank
Sproviero, W., Winchester, L., Newby, D., Fernandes, M., Shi, L., Goodday, S. M., Prats-Uribe, A., Alhambra, D. P., Buckley, N. J. & Nevado-Holgado, A. J., 15 Apr 2021, In: Biological Psychiatry. 89, 8, p. 817-824 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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ORA, FCS, and PT strategies in functional enrichment analysis
Fernandes, M. & Husi, H., 9 Jul 2021, Proteomics data analysis. Cecconi, D. (ed.). New York, NY: Humana Press Inc., p. 163-178 16 p. (Methods in molecular biology; vol. 2361).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Identification of diagnostic upper gastrointestinal cancer tissue type‑specific urinary biomarkers
Husi, H., Fernandes, M., Skipworth, R. J., Miller, J., Cronshaw, A. D., Fearon, K. C. H. & Ross, J. A., 2019, In: Biomedical Reports. 10, 3, p. 165-174 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review