News and Publications

Stay up to date with the latest discoveries, collaborations, and scientific achievements from the MXB.

This section highlights our ongoing progress in building one of the largest genomic resources in Latin America, along with key milestones in data generation, analysis, and international collaboration.

Here you will find news, publications, and announcements related to our research, training activities, and partnerships. Together, these updates reflect the MXB’s mission to advance genomic science, strengthen local research capacity, and contribute to a more inclusive understanding of human diversity and health.

Latest News

DEC 2025

Interview about MXB in "On Humans" podcast

Andrés Moreno-Estrada, CINVESTAV, Mexico

OCT 2025

Poster presentation at ASHG 2025 (Boston, USA)

Carmina Barberena-Jonas, CINVESTAV, Mexico

Board 2017F: MexVar database for expanding Latin American precision medicine illustrates striking clinical genetic variation in the Mexican Biobank.

OCT 2025

Interview about MexVar in RARE Revolution Magazine

Andres Moreno-Estrada, Carmina Barberena-Jonas, CINVESTAV, Mexico

OCT 2025

Interview about MXB in "De chicharos y habas" podcast

Mashaal Sohail, CCG, Mexico

AUG 2025

Interview about MerVar in "De chicharos y habas" podcast

Carmina Barberena-Jonas, CINVESTAV, Mexico

JUL 2025

Poster presentation at SMBE 2025 (Beijing, China)

Carmina Barberena-Jonas, CINVESTAV, Mexico

S27-P11: Unraveling 500 Years of Evolutionary History and Admixture Through IBD Genomic Analyses in the Mexican Biobank.

JUL 2023

Oral presentations on MXB data at SMBE 2023 (Ferrara, Italy)

Carmina Barberena-Jonas, UGA, Mexico

Analyzing IBD segments in the MX Biobank to track the genetic structure of Mexico through time.

JUL 2023

SMBE Graduate Student Excellence Award at SMBE 2023

Santiago Medina-Muñoz, CINVESTAV, Mexico

Demographic modeling of admixed Latin American populations from whole genomes.

NOV 2018

Workshop on Large-Scale Genomic Data Analyses

CINVESTAV, Mexico

Focused on the practical analysis of GWAS data in structured populations.

JUN 2018

Poster presentations at the Closing the Genome Research Gap symposium (Montreal)

Maria Jose Palma-Martinez & Andres Jimenez-Kaufmann, CINVESTAV

Building Capacity for Big Data Science & Imputation performance in Latin Americans.

Scientific Publications