• Silvia Perretti, Maria Teresa Vizzari, Patricia Santos, Enrico Tassani, Andrea Benazzo, Silvia Ghirotto*, Guido Barbujani*, 2025
    Inference of human pigmentation from ancient DNA by genotype likelihood
    bioRxiv

  • Rajiv Boscolo Agostini, Maria Teresa Vizzari, Andrea Benazzo, Silvia Ghirotto, 2024.
    Disentangling the worldwide invasion process of Halyomorpha halys through approximate Bayesian computation
    Heredity, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41437-024-00735-9.

  • Maria Teresa Vizzari*, Silvia Ghirotto*, Rajiv Boscolo Agostini, Pierpaolo Maisano Delser, Lara Cassidy, Andrea Manica, and Andrea Benazzo, 2024
    Low-ABC: a robust demographic Inference from low-coverage whole-genome data through ABC.
    bioRxiv

  • Hannes Rathmann*, Maria Teresa Vizzari*, Judith Beier, Shara Bailey, Silvia Ghirotto, Katerina Harvati. 2024.
    Human population dynamics in Upper Paleolithic Europe inferred from fossil dental phenotypes.
    Science Advances. adn8129.

  • Andrej Evteev, Taisiya Syutkina, Alexandra Grosheva, Patrícia Santos, Silvia Ghirotto, Tsunehiko Hanihara, Mark Hubbe, Lumila Paula Menéndez. 2024.
    Disparate and parallel craniofacial climatic adaptations in native populations of Asia, North America, and South America.
    Journal of Anatomy. 10.1111/joa.14115.

  • Filipa F. Vale, Richard J. Roberts, Ichizo Kobayashi, …, Rajiv Boscolo Agostini, Silvia Ghirotto, Zilia Y. Muñoz-Ramírez, Roberto C. Torres, Daniel Falush, Kaisa Thorell, Ikuo Uchiyama, Jones Kristie. 2024.
    Gene content, phage cycle regulation model and prophage inactivation disclosed by prophage genomics in the Helicobacter pylori Genome Project.
    Gut Microbes. Article number 2379440.

  • Roberto Biello*, Silvia Ghirotto*, Daniel J. Schmidt, Silvia Fuselli, David T. Roberts, Tom Espinoza, Jane M. Hughes, & Giorgio Bertorelle. 2024.
    Unravelling the mystery of endemic versus translocated populations of the endangered Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri).
    Molecular Ecology. 33:e17266.

  • Kaisa Thorell, Zilia Y. Muñoz-Ramírez, Difei Wang, Santiago Sandoval-Motta, Rajiv Boscolo Agostini, Silvia Ghirotto, Roberto C. Torres, Judith Romero-Gallo, Uma Krishna, Richard M. Peek, M. Blanca Piazuelo, Naïma Raaf, 2023.
    The Helicobacter pylori Genome Project: insights into H. pylori population structure from analysis of a worldwide collection of complete genomes.
    Nature Communications. 14, 8184 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-43562-y

  • Hannes Rathmann, Silvia Perretti, Valentina Porcu, Tsunehiko Hanihara, G. Richard Scott, Joel D. Irish, Hugo Reyes-Centeno, Silvia Ghirotto, Katerina Harvati. 2023.
    Inferring human neutral genetic variation from craniodental phenotypes.
    PNAS Nexus. 2(7), pgad217. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad217

  • Alessandra Modi*, Maria Teresa Vizzari*, Giulio Catalano, Rajiv Boscolo Agostini, Stefania Vai, Martina Lari, Chiara Vergata, Valentina Zaro, Lucia Liccioli, Mariaelena Fedi, Serena Barone, Lorenzo Nigro, Hovirag Lancioni, Alessandro Achilli, Luca Sineo, David Caramelli & Silvia Ghirotto. 2022.
    Genetic structure and differentiation from early bronze age in the mediterranean island of sicily: Insights from ancient mitochondrial genomes.
    Frontiers in Genetics. 13:945227. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.945227

  • Stefania Sarno*, Rajiv Boscolo Agostini*, Sara De Fanti, Gianmarco Ferri, Silvia Ghirotto, Giorgia Modenini, Davide Pettener, Alessio Boattini. 2021.
    Y-chromosome variability and genetic history of Commons from Northern Italy.
    American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 175(3), pp. 665-679.

  • Yoshan Moodley*, Andrea Brunelli*, Silvia Ghirotto*, Andrey Klyubin, Ayas S. Maady, William Tyne, Zilia Y. Muñoz-Ramirez, Zhemin Zhou, Andrea Manica, Bodo Linz, Mark Achtman. 2021.
    Helicobacter pylori’s historical journey through Siberia and the Americas.
    Proc Nat Acad Sci USA. 118(25), e2015523118.

  • Silvia Ghirotto*, Maria Teresa Vizzari*, Francesca Tassi, Guido Barbujani & Andrea Benazzo. 2021.
    Distinguishing among complex evolutionary models using unphased whole‐genome data through Random‐Forest Approximate Bayesian Computation.
     Molecular Ecology Resources. 21:2614–2628. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13263.

  • Maria Teresa Vizzari, Andrea Benazzo, Guido Barbujani & Silvia Ghirotto. 2020.
    A revised model of anatomically modern human expansions out of africa through a machine learning approximate bayesian computation approach.
    Genes. 11(12), pp. 1–15, 1510.

  • Omar Rota-Stabelli, Lino Ometto, Gabriella Tait, Silvia Ghirotto, Rupinder Kaur, Francesco Drago, Josefa González, Vaughn M. Walton, Gianfranco Anfora & Marco Valerio Rossi-Stacconi. 2020.
    Distinct genotypes and phenotypes in European and American strains of Drosophila suzukii: implications for biology and management of an invasive organism.
    Journal of Pest Science. 93: 77-89.

  • 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. 27(4): 647-656.

  • Wibhu Kutanan, Jatupol Kampuansai, Metawee Srikummool, Andrea Brunelli, Silvia Ghirotto, Leonardo Arias, Enrico Macholdt, Alexander Hübner, Roland Schröder, Mark Stoneking. 2019.
    Contrasting Paternal and Maternal Genetic Histories of Thai and Lao Populations.
    Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(7): 1490-1506.

  • 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. 2018.
    New insights from Thailand into the maternal genetic history of Mainland Southeast Asia.
     European Journal of Human Genetics. 26(6): 898-911.

  • 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. 2017.
    Genome diversity in the Neolithic Globular Amphorae culture and the spread of Indo-European languages.
     Proc Royal Soc B. 284(1867). pii: 20171540. IF: 5.349 Category Quartile: BIOLOGY: Q1 EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY: Q1 ECOLOGY: Q1.

  • 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. IF: 11.205 Category Quartile: MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES: Q1.

  • Hannes Rathmann, Hugo Reyes-Centeno, Silvia Ghirotto, Nicole Creanza, Tsunehiko Hanihara & Katerina Harvati. 2017.
    Reconstructing human population history from dental phenotypes.
    Scientific Reports. 7(1): 12495. IF: 4.379 Category Quartile: MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES: Q1

  • 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. 2017.
    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*. 2017.
    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. 2017.
    Complete mitochondrial sequences from Mesolithic Sardinia.
    Scientific Reports. 7:42869.

  • Wibhu Kutanan, Jatupol Kampuansai, Metawee Srikummool, Daoroong Kangwanpong, Silvia Ghirotto, Andrea Brunelli, Mark Stoneking. 2017.
    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. 2017.
    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. 2017.
    Genomic validation of the differential preservation of population history in modern human cranial anatomy.
    American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 162(1):170-179.