Anna Tommasi

• Irene Cardinali, Andrea Giontella, Anna Tommasi, Maurizio Silvestrelli, Hovirag Lancioni
  Unlocking Horse Y Chromosome Diversity
  Genes, 2022. doi: 10.3390/genes13122272
• Anna Tommasi, Rajiv Boscolo Agostini, Giacomo Villani, Nicola Rambaldi Migliore, Maria Teresa Vizzari, Irene Cardinali, Rosalinda Di Gerlando, Valeria Nicolini, Gary Sorasio, Patrícia Santos, Anna Olivieri, Ugo A. Perego, Giulio Catalano, Nicoletta Volante, Lucia Sarti, David Caramelli, Luca Sineo, Hovirag Lancioni, Alessandra Modi, Silvia Ghirotto, Alessandro Achilli
  Fifteen millennia of human mitogenome evolution in Sicily
  Science Advances, 2025. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ady1674

EMBO PopGen, Torre del Greco, June 2026

Population structure and maternal genetic diversity in Friuli Venezia Giulia, northeastern Italy

1. Esko, T. (2013). Genetic characterization of northeastern Italian population isolates in the context of broader European genetic diversity. European Journal of Human Genetics, 21, 659–665. https://doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2012.229
2. Bouckaert, R. (2019). BEAST 2.5: An advanced software platform for Bayesian evolutionary analysis. PLoS Computational Biology, 15, e1006650. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006650
3. Pudlo, P. (2016). Reliable ABC model choice via random forests. Bioinformatics, 32, 859-866. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btv684
4. Alexander, D.H., Novembre, J. and Lange K. (2009). Fast model-based estimation of ancestry in unrelated individuals. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. https://genome.cshlp.org/content/19/9/1655
5. Behr, A.A., Liu, K.Z., Liu-Fang, G., Nakka, P. and Ramachandran, S. (2016). pong: fast analysis and visualization of latent clusters in population genetic data.. Bioinformatics, 32, 2817–2823. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btw327
6. Ringbauer, H., Novembre, J. and Steinrücken, M. (2021). Parental relatedness through time revealed by runs of homozygosity in ancient DNA. Nature Communications, 12, 5425. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25289-w

International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA11), Turin, August 2025

Fifteen millennia of human mitogenome evolution in Sicily

Watch the video presentation of my research poster below:

1. D’Amore, G., Di Marco, S., Tartarelli, G., Bigazzi, R., and Sineo, L. (2009). Late Pleistocene human evolution in Sicily: comparative morphometric analysis of Grotta di San Teodoro craniofacial remains. Journal of Human Evolution, 56, 537–550. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.02.002
2. Sazzini, M., Sarno, S., and Luiselli, D. (2014). The Mediterranean Human Population: An Anthropological Genetics Perspective. In Goffredo & Dubinsky (Eds.), The Mediterranean Sea, Springer, pp. 529–551. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6704-1_31
3. Olivieri, A. et al. (2017). Mitogenome Diversity in Sardinians: A Genetic Window onto an Island’s Past. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 34, 1230–1239.
4. Olivieri, A. et al. (2006). The mtDNA Legacy of the Levantine Early Upper Palaeolithic in Africa. Science, 314, 1767–1770.
5. Modi, A. et al. (2020). The mitogenome portrait of Umbria in Central Italy as depicted by contemporary inhabitants and pre-Roman remains. Scientific Reports, 10, 10700.
6. Cardinali, I. et al. (2022). Mitochondrial DNA Footprints from Western Eurasia in Modern Mongolia. Frontiers in Genetics, 12.
7. Speciale, C. (2024). Sicily and the process of Neolithisation: a review of the archaeobotanical data. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 33, 185–194.
8. Modi, A. et al. (2021). More data on ancient human mitogenome variability in Italy: new mitochondrial genome sequences from three Upper Palaeolithic burials. Annals of Human Biology, 48, 213–222.
9. Malyarchuk, B. et al. (2010). The Peopling of Europe from the Mitochondrial Haplogroup U5 Perspective. PLoS ONE, 5, e10285.
10. Pala, M. et al. (2009). Mitochondrial Haplogroup U5b3: A Distant Echo of the Epipaleolithic in Italy and the Legacy of the Early Sardinians. The American Journal of Human Genetics, 84, 814–821.
11. Cabrera, V. M. (2022). Updating the Phylogeography and Temporal Evolution of Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroup U8 with Special Mention to the Basques. DNA, 2, 104–115.