Pubblicazioni

2019

Stefania Vai, Andrea Brunelli, Alessandra Modi, Francesca Tassi, Chiara Vergata, Elena Pilli, Martina Lari, Roberta Rosa Susca, Caterina Giostra, Luisella Pejrani Baricco, Elena Bedini, István Koncz, Tivadar Vida, Balázs Gusztáv Mende, Daniel Winger, Zuzana Loskotová, Krishna Veeramah, Patrick Geary, Guido Barbujani, David Caramelli & Silvia Ghirotto. 2019. A genetic perspective on Longobard-Era migrations. European Journal of Human Genetics. In press.

2018

Carlos Eduardo G. Amorim, Stefania Vai, Cosimo Posth, Alessandra Modi, István Koncz, Susanne Hakenbeck, Maria Cristina La Rocca, Balazs Mende, Dean Bobo, Walter Pohl, Luisella Pejrani Baricco, Elena Bedini, Paolo Francalacci, Caterina Giostra, Tivadar Vida, Daniel Winger, Uta von Freeden, Silvia Ghirotto, Martina Lari, Guido Barbujani, Johannes Krause, David Caramelli, Patrick J. Geary & Krishna R. Veeramah. 2018. Understanding 6th-century barbarian social organization and migration through paleogenomics. Nature Communications. 9(1):3547.

Michela Leonardi, Anna Sandionigi, Annalisa Conzato, Stefania Vai, Martina Lari, Francesca Tassi, Silvia Ghirotto, David Caramelli, Guido Barbujani. 2018. The female ancestor's tale: Long-term matrilineal continuity in a nonisolated region of Tuscany. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 167(3): 497-506.

Wibhu Kutanan, Jatupol Kampuansai, Andrea Brunelli, Silvia Ghirotto, Pittayawat Pittayaporn, Sukhum Ruangchai, Roland Schröder, Enrico Macholdt, Metawee Srikummool, Daoroong Kangwanpong, Alexander Hübner, Leonardo Arias Alvis and Mark Stoneking. New insights from Thailand into the maternal genetic history of Mainland Southeast Asia. European Journal of Human Genetics. 26(6): 898-911.

2017

Francesca Tassi, Stefania Vai, Silvia Ghirotto, Martina Lari, Alessandra Modi, Elena Pilli, Andrea Brunelli, Roberta Rosa Susca, Alicja Budnik, Damian Labuda, Federica Alberti, Carles Lalueza-Fox, David Reich, David Caramelli, Guido Barbujani. Genome diversity in the Neolithic Globular Amphorae culture and the spread of Indo-European languages. Proc Royal Soc B. DOI:10.1098/rspb.2017.1540.

Andrea Benazzo, Emiliano Trucchi, James Cahill, Pierpaolo Maisano Delser, Stefano Mona, Matteo Fumagalli, Lynsey Bunnefeld, Luca Cornetti, Silvia Ghirotto, Matteo Girardi, Lino Ometto, Alex Panziera, Omar Rota-Stabelli, Enrico Zanetti, Alexandros Karamanlidis, Claudio Groff, Ladislav Paule, Leonardo Gentile, Carles Vilà, Saverio Vicario, Luigi Boitani, Ludovic Orlando, Slivia Fuselli, Cristiano Vernesi, Beth Shapiro, Paolo Ciucci, Giorgio Bertorelle. Survival and divergence in a small group: the extraordinary genomic history of the endangered Apennine brown bear stragglers. Proc Nat Acad Sci USA. 114 (45): E9589-E9597.

Hannes Rathmann, Hugo Reyes-Centeno, Silvia Ghirotto, Nicole Creanza, Tsunehiko Hanihara & Katerina Harvati. 2017. Reconstructing human population history from dental phenotypes. Scientific Reports. 7: 12495

Neus Solé-Morata, Patricia Villaescusa, Carla García-Fernández, Neus Font-Porterias, María José Illescas, Laura Valverde, Francesca Tassi, Silvia Ghirotto, Claude Férec, Karen Rouault, Susana Jiménez-Moreno, Begoña Martínez-Jarreta, Maria Fátima Pinheiro, María T. Zarrabeitia, Ángel Carracedo, Marian M. de Pancorbo & Francesc Calafell. Analysis of the R1b-DF27 haplogroup shows that a large fraction of Iberian Y-chromosome lineages originated recently in situ. Scientific Reports. 7(1):7341

Andrea Brunelli, Jatupol Kampuansai, Mark Seielstad, Khemika Lomthaisong, Daoroong Kangwanpong, Silvia Ghirotto*, Wibhu Kutanan*. Y chromosomal evidence on the origin of northern Thai people. PlosOne. 12(7):e0181935.

Alessandra Modi, Francesca Tassi, Roberta Rosa Susca, Stefania Vai, Ermanno Rizzi, Gianluca De Bellis, Carlo Lugliè, Guido Barbujani, David Caramelli and Silvia Ghirotto. Complete mitochondrial sequences from Mesolithic Sardinia. Scientific Reports. 7:42869.

Wibhu Kutanan, Jatupol Kampuansai, Metawee Srikummool, Daoroong Kangwanpong, Silvia Ghirotto, Andrea Brunelli, Mark Stoneking. Complete mitochondrial genomes of Thai and Lao populations indicate an ancient origin of Austroasiatic groups and demic diffusion in the spread of Tai–Kadai languages. Human Genetics. 136(1):85-98.

Jatupol Kampuansai, Wibhu Kutanan, Francesca Tassi, Massupa Kaewgahya, Silvia Ghirotto and Daoroong Kangwanpong. Effect of migration patterns on maternal genetic structure: a case of Tai-Kadai migration from China to Thailand. Journal of Human Genetics. 62(2):223-228.

Hugo Reyes-Centeno, Silvia Ghirotto, Katerina Harvati. Genomic validation of the differential preservation of population history in modern human cranial anatomy. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 162(1):170-179.

2016

Irene Lobon, Serena Tucci, Marc de Manuel, Silvia Ghirotto, Andrea Benazzo, Javier Prado-Martinez, Belen Lorente-Galdos, Kiwoong Nam, Marc Dabad, Jessica Hernandez-Rodriguez, David Comas, Arcadi Navarro, Mikkel H. Schierup, Aida M. Andres, Guido Barbujani, Christina Hvilsom, Tomas Marques-Bonet. Demographic history of the genus Pan inferred from whole mitochondrial genome reconstructions. Genome Biology and Evolution. 8(6):2020-30.

Irene Dall’Ara, Silvia Ghirotto, Selene Ingusci, Giulia Bagarolo, Cristiano Bertolucci and Guido Barbujani. Demographic history and adaptation account for clock gene diversity in humans. Heredity. 117(3):165-72

Giuseppe Longobardi, Andrea Ceolin, Aaron Ecay, Silvia Ghirotto, Cristina Guardiano, Monica-Alexandrina Irimia, Dimitris Michelioudakis, Nina Radkevich, Davide Pettener, Donata Luiselli & Guido Barbujani. Formal linguistics as a cue to demographic history. J Anthropol Sci. 94:147-55

Silvia Ghirotto*, Francesca Tassi*, Guido Barbujani, Linda Pattini, Caroline Hayward, Peter Vollenweider, Murielle Bochud, Luca Rampoldi, and Olivier Devuyst. The Uromodulin Gene Locus Shows Evidence of Pathogen Adaptation through Human Evolution. J Am Soc Nephrol. 27(10).

Cesare de Filippo, Felix M. Key, Silvia Ghirotto, Andrea Benazzo, Juan R. Meneu, Antje Weihmann, NISC Comparative Sequence Program, Genís Parra, Eric D. Green, Aida M. Andrés. Recent Selection Changes in Human Genes under Long-Term Balancing Selection. Mol Biol Evol. 33(6):1435-47.

2015

Francesca Tassi*, Silvia Ghirotto*, Massimo Mezzavilla, Sibelle Torres Vilaça, Lisa De Santi, and Guido Barbujani.  Early human dispersal from Africa: genomic evidence for multiple waves of migration. Investig Genet. 6(1):13.

Fernanda SG Kehdy, Wagner CS Magalhães, Mateus H Gouveia, Andrea Horimoto, Bernardo LHorta, Marilia O Scliar, Giordano B Soares-Souza, Moara Machado, Thiago P Leal, Fernanda Rodrigues-Soares, RennanMoreira, Gilderlánio S Araújo, RoxanaZamudio, Hanaisa de Pla e Sant Anna, Hadassa Santos, NúbiaEsteban, Rosemeire L. Fiaccone,Camila A Figueiredo, ThiagoMagalhães da Silva, Gustavo Nunes de Oliveira Costa, Sandra Beleza, Douglas E Berg, Lilia Cabrera, GuilhermeDebortoli, Denise Duarte, Silvia Ghirotto, Robert H Gilman, Vanessa F Gonçalves, Andrea R Marrero, Yara CN Muniz, Hansi Weissensteiner, Meredith Yeager, Laura C Rodrigues, Maria Fernanda Lima-Costa, MauricioBarreto, Alexandre Pereira, Maíra R Rodrigues, Eduardo Tarazona-Santos and The Brazilian EPIGEN Project Consortium. Origin and dynamics of admixture in Brazilians and its effect on the pattern of deleterious mutations. ProcNatlAcadSci USA. 112, 8696-701.

Giuseppe Longobardi, Silvia Ghirotto, Cristina Guardiano, Andrea Ceolin, Francesca Tassi, Andrea Benazzo, and Guido Barbujani. Across language families: Genome diversity mirrors grammar within Europe. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 157, 630-40.

Chiara Batini, Pille Hallast, Daniel Zadik, Pierpaolo Maisano Delser, Andrea Benazzo, Silvia Ghirotto, Eduardo Arroyo, Walter Bodmer, Gianpiero Cavalleri, Peter de Knijff, Berit Myhre Dupuy, Turi E. King, Adolfo López de Munain, Jelena Milasin, Andrea Novelletto, Horolma Pamjav, Antti Sajantila, Asli Tolun, Bruce Winney, Mark A. Jobling. Large-scale recent expansion of European patrilineages shown by population resequencing. Nature Communications. 19, 6:715.

Andrea Benazzo, Silvia Ghirotto, Sibelle Torres Vilaca and Sean M Hoban. Using ABC and microsatellite data to detect multiple introductions of invasive species from a single source. Heredity. 115, 262-72.

Suparat Srithawong, Metawee Srikummool, Pittayawat Pittayaporn, Silvia Ghirotto, Panuwan Chanthawannakul, Jie Sun, Arthur Eisenberg, Ranajit Chakraborty and Wibhu Kutanan. Genetic and Linguistic Correlation of Kra-Dai Speaking Groups in Thailand. Journal of Human Genetics. 60, 371-80.

Martina Lari, Fabio Di Vincenzo, Andrea Borsato, Silvia Ghirotto, Mario Micheli, Carlotta Balsamo, Carmine Collina, Gianluca De Bellis, Giacomo Giacobini, Elena Gigli, John C. Hellstrom, Antonella Lannino, Alessandra Modi, Alessandro Pietrelli, Elena Pilli, Antonio Profico, Oscar Ramirez, Ermanno Rizzi, Stefania Vai, Donata Venturo, Marcello Piperno, CarlesLalueza Fox, Guido Barbujani , David Caramelli & Giorgio Manzi. The Neanderthal in the karst: dating, paleogenetics and morphology of the skeleton from Altamura (Italy). Journal of Human Evolution. 82, 88-94.

Stefania Vai*, Silvia Ghirotto*, Elena Pilli, Francesca Tassi, Martina Lari, Ermanno Rizzi, CarlesLalueza-Fox, Laura Matas-Lalueza, Oscar Ramirez, Alessandro Achilli, Anna Olivieri, Antonio Torroni, Caterina Giostra, Elena Bedini, Luisella Pejrani Baricco, Alberto Piazza, KrishnaVeeramah, Patrick Geary, David Caramelli, and Guido Barbujani. Genealogical relationships between early medieval and modern inhabitants of Piedmont. PLoS ONE10(1):e0116801.

Massimo Mezzavilla and Silvia Ghirotto. NeON: an R package to estimate human effective population size and divergence time from patterns of linkage disequilibrium between SNPs. J Comput Sci Syst Biol. 8, 037-044.

2014

Marilia O Scliar, Mateus H Gouveia, Andrea Benazzo, Silvia Ghirotto, Nelson J Fagundes, Thiago P Leal, Wagner CS Magalhães, Latife Pereira, Maira R Rodrigues, Giordano Soares-Souza, Lilia Cabrera, Douglas Berg, Robert H Gilman, Giorgio Bertorelle, Eduardo Tarazona-Santos. Amazon Yunga Natives split from Andeans less than 5000 YBP: implications for South American prehistory. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14, 174.

Wibhu Kutanan, Silvia Ghirotto, Giorgio Bertorelle, SuparatSrithawong, KanokpornSrithongdaeng, NattaponPonlatham, and DaoroongKangwanpong. Geography has more influence than language on maternal genetic structure of various Northeastern Thai ethnicities. Journal of Human Genetics. 59, 512-520.

Hugo Reyes-Centeno, Silvia Ghirotto, Florent Détroit, Dominique Grimaud-Hervé, Guido Barbujani, and Katerina Harvati. Genomic and Cranial Phenotype Data Support Multiple Modern Human Dispersals from Africa and a Southern Route into Asia. ProcNatlAcadSci USA. 111, 7248-53.

2013

Guido Barbujani, Silvia Ghirotto, Francesca Tassi. Nine things to remember about human genome diversity. Tissue Antigens. 82, 155-164.

Francesca Tassi, Silvia Ghirotto, David Caramelli and Guido Barbujani. Genetic Evidence Does Not Support An Etruscan Origin In Anatolia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 152,  11-18

Silvia Ghirotto, Francesca Tassi, Erica Fumagalli, Vincenza Colonna, Anna Sandionigi, Martina Lari, Stefania Vai, Emmanuele Petiti, Giorgio Corti, Ermanno Rizzi, Gianluca De Bellis, David Caramelli and Guido Barbujani. Origins and evolution of the Etruscans’ DNA. PLoS One. 8(2):e55519

2011

Silvia Ghirotto, Luca Penso-Dolfin and Guido Barbujani. Genomic evidence for an African expansion of anatomically-modern humans by a Southern route. Human Biology. 83, 77-489.

Silvia Ghirotto, Francesca Tassi, Andrea Benazzo, Guido Barbujani. No evidence of Neandertal admixture in Cro-Magnoid and modern European mitochondrial genomes. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 146, 242-52

2010

Guido Barbujani and Silvia Ghirotto. Origin of the Tuscans. Standard Article in: "ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE SCIENCES".

Silvia Ghirotto, Stefano Mona, Andrea Benazzo, Francesco Paparazzo, David Caramelli, Guido Barbujani. Inferring Genealogical Processes from Patterns of Bronze-Age and Modern DNA variation in Sardinia. MolecularBiology and Evolution. 27, 875-86.

2009

Silvia Guimaraes, Silvia Ghirotto, Andrea Benazzo, Lucio Milani, Martina Lari, Elena Pilli, Elena Pecchioli, Francesco Mallegni, Barbara Lippi, Francesca Bertoldi, Sauro Gelichi, Antonella Casoli, Elise M. S. Belle, David Caramelli, Guido Barbujani. Genealogical discontinuities among Etruscan, Medieval and contemporary Tuscans. Molecular Biology and Evolution.26, 2157-66

Elise M. S. Belle, Andrea Benazzo, Silvia Ghirotto, Vincenza Colonna, Guido Barbujani. Comparing models on the genealogical relationships among Neandertal, Cro-Magnoid and modern Europeans by serial coalescent simulations. Heredity.102, 218-25.