Publications

2024

Serena Aneli, Camilla Ceccatelli Berti, Alexandru Ionut Gilea, Giovanni Birolo, Giacomo Mutti, Angelo Pavesi, Enrico Baruffini, Paola Goffrini, Cristian Capelli. Functional characterization of archaic-specific variants in mitonuclear genes: insights from comparative analysis in S. cerevisiae. 2024 Hum Mol Genet.

Leonardo Vallini, Carlo Zampieri, Mohamed Javad Shoaee, Eugenio Bortolini, Giulia Marciani, Serena Aneli, Telmo Pievani, Stefano Benazzi, Alberto Barausse, Massimo Mezzavilla, Michael D Petraglia, Luca Pagani. The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal. 2024 Nat Commun

2023

Mezzavilla M, De Pizzol F, Vallini L, Barbiera I, Boattini A, Taccioli C, Pagani L. Changes in human effective population size overlap the beginning and end of a critical time in European medieval history, also characterized by the Black Death epidemic. 2023 Hum Popul Genet Genom

Giacomo Mutti, Gonzalo Oteo-Garcia, Matteo Caldon, Maria Joana Ferreira da Silva, Tânia Minhós, Guy Cowlishaw, Dada Gottelli, Elise Huchard, Alecia Carter, Felipe I. Martinez, Alessandro Raveane, Cristian Capelli. Assessing the recovery of Y chromosome microsatellites with population genomic data using Papio and Theropithecus genomes.2023 Scientific Reports. 

Daniels RJ, D'Amato ME, Lesaoana M, Kasu M, Ehlers K, Chauke PA, Lecheko P, Challis S, Rockett K, Montinaro F, González-Santos M, Capelli C. "Genetic heritage of the Baphuthi highlights an over-ethnicized notion of "Bushman" in the Maloti-Drakensberg, southern Africa." 2023 Am J Hum Genet


Evelyn Jagoda, Davide Marnetto, Gayani Senevirathne, Victoria Gonzalez, Kaushal Baid, Francesco Montinaro, Daniel Richard, Darryl Falzarano, Emmanuelle V LeBlanc, Che C Colpitts, Arinjay Banerjee, Luca Pagani, Terence D Capellini 

Regulatory dissection of the severe COVID-19 risk locus introgressed by Neanderthals 2023 https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.71235 

2022

Santander, C., Molinaro, L., Mutti, G., Martínez, F.I., Mathe, J., Ferreira da Silva, M.J., Caldon, M., Oteo-Garcia, G., Aldeias, V., Archer, W., Bamford, M., Biro, D., Bobe, R., Braun, D.R., Hammond, P., Lüdecke, T., Pinto, M.J., Meira Paulo, L., Stalmans, M., Regala, F.T., Bertolini, F., Moltke, I., Raveane, A., Pagani, L., Carvalho, S., Capelli, C.

Genomic variation in baboons from central Mozambique unveils complex evolutionary relationships with other Papio species 2022 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-01999-7


Aneli, S., Mezzavilla, M., Bortolini, E., Pirastu, N., Girotto, G., Spedicati, B., Berchialla, P., Gasparini, P., Pagani, L.

Impact of cultural and genetic structure on food choices along the Silk Road 2022 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209311119


Pärna, K., Nolte, I.M., Snieder, H., Fischer, K., Marnetto, D., Pagani, L.

A Principal Component Informed Approach to Address Polygenic Risk Score Transferability Across European Cohorts 2022 https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.899523


Raveane, A., Molinaro, L., Aneli, S., Capodiferro, M.R., de Gennaro, L., Ongaro, L., Rambaldi Migliore, N., Soffiati, S., Scarano, T., Torroni, A., Achilli, A., Ventura, M., Pagani, L., Capelli, C., Olivieri, A., Bertolini, F., Semino, O., Montinaro, F.

Assessing temporal and geographic contacts across the Adriatic Sea through the analysis of genome-wide data from Southern Italy 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygeno.2022.110405


Vallini, L., Marciani, G., Aneli, S., Bortolini, E., Benazzi, S., Pievani, T., Pagani, L.

Genetics and Material Culture Support Repeated Expansions into Paleolithic Eurasia from a Population Hub out of Africa 2022 https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evac045


Marnetto, D., Pankratov, V., Mondal, M., Montinaro, F., Pärna, K., Vallini, L., Molinaro, L., Saag, L., Loog, L., Montagnese, S., Costa, R., Metspalu, M., Eriksson, A., Pagani, L.

Ancestral genomic contributions to complex traits in contemporary Europeans 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.046


Aneli, S., Saupe, T., Montinaro, F., Solnik, A., Molinaro, L., Scaggion, C., Carrara, N., Raveane, A., Kivisild, T., Metspalu, M., Scheib, C.L., Pagani, L.

The Genetic Origin of Daunians and the Pan-Mediterranean Southern Italian Iron Age Context 2022 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msac014


González-Santos, M., Montinaro, F.,Grollemund, R., Marnetto, D., Atadzhanov, M., May, C. A.,Mabunda, N., Maret, P. d., Oosthuizen, O., Oosthuizen, E., & Capelli, C.

Exploring the relationships between genetic,linguistic and geographic distances in Bantu-speakingpopulations

https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24589

2021

Ongaro, L., Mondal, M., Flores, R., Marnetto, D., Molinaro, L., Alarcón-Riquelme, M.E., Moreno-Estrada, A., Mabunda, N., Ventura, M., Tambets, K., Hellenthal, G., Capelli, C., Kivisild, T., Metspalu, M., Pagani, L., Montinaro, F.
Continental-scale genomic analysis suggests shartied post-admixture adaptation in the Americas 2021 https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddab177

Montinaro, F., Pankratov, V., Yelmen, B., Pagani, L., Mondal, M.
Revisiting the out of Africa event with a deep-learning approach 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.09.006

Ongaro, L., Molinaro, L., Flores, R., Marnetto, D., Capodiferro, M.R., Alarcón-Riquelme, M.E., Moreno-Estrada, A., Mabunda, N., Ventura, M., Tambets, K., Achilli, A., Capelli, C., Metspalu, M., Pagani, L., Montinaro, F.
Evaluating the impact of sex-biased genetic admixture in the americas through the analysis of haplotype data 2021 https://doi.org/10.3390/genes12101580

Aneli, S., Caldon, M., Saupe, T., Montinaro, F., Pagani, L.
Through 40,000 years of human presence in Southern Europe: the Italian case study 2021 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00439-021-02328-6

Saupe, T., Montinaro, F., Scaggion, C., Carrara, N., Kivisild, T., D'Atanasio, E., Hui, R., Solnik, A., Lebrasseur, O., Larson, G., Alessandri, L., Arienzo, I., De Angelis, F., Rolfo, M.F., Skeates, R., Silvestri, L., Beckett, J., Talamo, S., Dolfini, A., Miari, M., Metspalu, M., Benazzi, S., Capelli, C., Pagani, L., Scheib, C.L.
Ancient genomes reveal structural shifts after the arrival of Steppe-related ancestry in the Italian Peninsula 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.022

Bortolini, E., Pagani, L., Oxilia, G., Posth, C., Fontana, F., Badino, F., Saupe, T., Montinaro, F., Margaritora, D., Romandini, M., Lugli, F., Papini, A., Boggioni, M., Perrini, N., Oxilia, A., Cigliano, R.A., Barcelona, R., Visentin, D., Fasser, N., Arrighi, S., Figus, C., Marciani, G., Silvestrini, S., Bernardini, F., Menghi Sartorio, J.C., Fiorenza, L., Cecchi, J.M., Tuniz, C., Kivisild, T., Gianfrancesco, F., Peresani, M., Scheib, C.L., Talamo, S., D'Esposito, M., Benazzi, S.
Early Alpine occupation backdates westward human migration in Late Glacial Europe 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.078

Molinaro, L., Marnetto, D., Mondal, M., Ongaro, L., Yelmen, B., Lawson, D.J., Montinaro, F., Pagani, L.
A Chromosome-Painting-Based Pipeline to Infer Local Ancestry under Limited Source Availability 2021 https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab025

Yelmen, B., Marnetto, D., Molinaro, L., Flores, R., Mondal, M., Pagani, L.
Improving Selection Detection with Population Branch Statistic on Admixed Populations 2021 https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evab039

Yelmen, B., Decelle, A., Ongaro, L., Marnetto, D., Tallec, C., Montinaro, F., Furtlehner, C., Pagani, L., Jay, F.
Creating artificial human genomes using generative neural networks 2021 https://doi.org/10.1371/JOURNAL.PGEN.1009303