Beniamino Trombetta

1. Pistacchia L, Ravasini F, Bella E, D'Atanasio E, Cruciani F, Trombetta B. (2025) DNPcall: a new
pipeline for accurate double nucleotide polymorphism calling. Bioinform Adv. 5: vbaf209.
2. Menato F, Pepe G, Mercuri E, Zangaro F, Cangialosi G, Jodice C, Gulì M, Cruciani F, Trombetta
B, Helmer-Citterich M, Egenia D'Atanasio E, Guardiano C, Longobardi G, Semino O, Novelletto A,
Specchia V. (2025) Rare uniparental lineages reveal external ancestries in the gene pool of the Italian
linguistic enclave of Grecìa Salentina. Scientific Reports 16:1528.
3. Ravasini F, Conati Barbaro C, Scheib CL, Tambets K, Metspalu M, Cruciani F, Trombetta T*,
D’Atanasio E*. (2025) A New Perspective on the Arrival of the Eastern Mediterranean Genetic
Influx in Central Italy Before the Onset of the Roman Empire. Genome Biology and Evolution, 17:
evaf149. * co-corresponding and co-last authors.
4. Colombo G, Moroni E, Raveane A, Rambaldi Migliore N, Agostini V, Di Gerlando R, Fiorini C,
Caporali L, Gandini F, Raimondi R, D’Atanasio E, Lancioni H, Carelli V, Pala M, Trombetta B,
Novelletto A, Dugoujon JM, Achilli A, Torroni A, Richards MB, Cruciani F, Semino O, Olivieri A.
(2025) The origin of modern North Africans as depicted by a massive survey of mitogenomes.
Scientific Reports 15: 27025
5. Francesco Ravasini, Helja Kabral, Anu Solnik, Luciana de Gennaro, Francesco Montinaro, Ruoyun
Hui, Chiara Delpino, Stefano Finocchi, Pierluigi Giroldini, Oscar Mei, Michael Allen Beck De
Lotto, Elisabetta Cilli, Mogge Hajiesmaeil, Letizia Pistacchia, Flavia Risi, Chiara Giacometti,
Christiana Lyn Scheib, Kristiina Tambets, Mait Metspalu, Fulvio Cruciani, Eugenia D'Atanasio,

Beniamino Trombetta. (2024) The genomic portrait of the Picene culture provides new insights into
the Italic Iron Age and the legacy of the Roman Empire in Central Italy. Genome Biol. 25:292.
6. de Gennaro L, Burgio M, Lacalandra GM, Petronella F, L'Abbate A, Ravasini F, Trombetta B,
Rizzo A, Ventura M, Cicirelli V. (2024) Genomic Sequencing to Detect Cross-Breeding Quality in
Dogs: An Example Studying Disorders in Sexual Development. Int J Mol Sci 25:10763.
7. Barni F, Ralf A, Della Rocca C, Cannistrà F, Gigliucci M, Trombetta B, Berti A, Kayser M,
Cruciani F. (2024) Analysis of rapidly mutating Y-STRs enables almost complete discrimination of
unrelated and related males from the African continent. Forensic Sci Int Genet 73:103127.

8. D’Atanasio E, Risi F, Ravasini F, Montinaro F, Hajiesmaeil M, Bonucci B, Pistacchia L, Amoako-
Sakyi D, Bonito M, Onidi S, Colombo G, Semino O, Destro Bisol G, Anagnostou P, Metspalu M,

Tambets K, Trombetta B, Cruciani F. (2023) The genomic echoes of the last Green Sahara on the
Fulani and Sahelian people. Curr Biol. 33:5495-5504.
9. Hajiesmaeil M, Ravasini F, Risi F, Magnarini G, Olivieri A, D’Atanasio E, Galehdari H, Trombetta
B & Cruciani F. (2023) High incidence of AZF duplications in clan‐structured Iranian populations
detected throughY chromosome sequencing read depth analysis. Sci Rep. 13:11857
10. Della Rocca C, Trombetta B, Barni F, D'Atanasio E, Hajiesmaeil M, Berti A, Hadi S, Cruciani F.
(2022) Improving discrimination capacity through rapidly mutating Y-STRs in structured
populations from the African continent. Forensic Sci Int Genet. 61:102755.
11. Bonito M, Ravasini F, Novelletto A, D'Atanasio E, Cruciani F*, Trombetta B*. (2022) Disclosing

complex mutational dynamics at a Y chromosome palindrome evolving through intra- and inter-
chromosomal gene conversion. Hum Mol Genet. A3:ddac144. * co-corresponding and co-last

authors
12. Bonito M, D'Atanasio E, Ravasini F, Cariati S, Finocchio A, Novelletto A, Trombetta B*, Cruciani
F*. (2021) New insights into the evolution of human Y chromosome palindromes through mutation
and gene conversion. Hum Mol Genet. 30:2272-2285. * co-corresponding and co-last authors
13. Bonito M, D'Atanasio E, Trombetta B, Cannone F, Berti A, Cruciani F. (2021) Identification and
molecular characterisation of an unusually short allele at the SE33 (ACTBP2) locus resulting in a
putative tri-allelic pattern at a flanking marker. Forensic Sci Int Genet. 54:102523.
14. Ravasini F, D’Atanasio E, Bonito M, Bonucci B, Della Rocca C, Berti A, Trombetta B, Cruciani F.
(2021) Sequence Read Depth Analysis of a Monophyletic Cluster of Y Chromosomes Characterized
by Structural Rearrangements in the AZFc Region Resulting in DYS448Deletion and DYF387S1
Duplication. Front Genet 12:1-8.
15. Della Rocca C, Cannone F, D'Atanasio E, Bonito M, Anagnostou P, Russo G, Barni F, Alladio E,
Destro-Bisol G, Trombetta B, Berti A, Cruciani F. (2020). Ethnic fragmentation and degree of
urbanization strongly affect the discrimination power of Y-STR haplotypes in central Sahel. Forensic
Sci Int Genet 49:102374.
16. D'Atanasio E, Trionfetti F, Bonito M, Sellitto D, Coppa A, Berti A, Trombetta B, Cruciani F.
(2020). Y Haplogroup Diversity of the Dominican Republic: Reconstructing the Effect of the
European Colonization and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trades. Genome Biol Evol 12:1579-1590.
17. Grugni V, Raveane A, Ongaro L, Battaglia V, Trombetta B, Colombo G, Capodiferro MR, Olivieri
A, Achilli A, Perego UA, Motta J, Tribaldos M, Woodward SR, Ferretti L, Cruciani F, Torroni A,
Semino O. (2019). Analysis of the human Y-chromosome haplogroup Q characterizes ancient
population movements in Eurasia and the Americas. BMC 17:3.
18. D'Atanasio E, Iacovacci G, Pistillo R, Bonito M, Dugoujon JM, Moral P, El-Chennawi F, Melhaoui
M, Baali A, Cherkaoui M, Sellitto D, Trombetta B, Berti A, Cruciani F. (2019). Rapidly mutating

Y-STRs in rapidly expanding populations: Discrimination power of the Yfiler Plus multiplex in
northern Africa. Forensic Sci Int Genet 38:185-194.
19. D'Atanasio E, Bonito M, Iacovacci G, Berti A, Trombetta B, Cruciani F. (2019). Identification and
molecular characterisation of an AMEL-X null allele due to an Alu insertion. Forensic Sci Int Genet
38:e1-e4.
20. Finocchio A, Trombetta B, Messina F, D'Atanasio E, Akar N, Loutradis A, Michalodimitrakis EI,
Cruciani F, Novelletto A. (2028). A finely resolved phylogeny of Y chromosome Hg J illuminates
the processes of Phoenician and Greek colonizations in the Mediterranean. Sci Rep. 8:7465.
21. D’Atanasio E*, Trombetta B*, Bonito M, Finocchio A, Di Vito G, Seghizzi M, Romano R, Russo
G, Paganotti GM, Watson E, Coppa A, Anagnostou P, Dugoujon JM, Moral P, Sellitto D, Novelletto
A, Cruciani F. (2018). The peopling of the last Green Sahara disclosed by high-coverage
resequencing of trans-Saharan patrilineages. *These authors contributed equally to this work.
Genome Research 19:20.
22. Serventi P, Panicucci C, Bodega R, De Fanti S, Sarno S, Fondevila Alvarez M, Brisighelli F,
Trombetta B, Ferri G, Vazzana A, Delpino C, Gruppioni G, Luiselli D, E. Cilli E. (2018). Iron Age
Italic population genetics: the Piceni from Novilara (8th-7th century BC). Ann Hum Biol 45:34-43.
23. Trombetta B*,D’Atanasio E,Cruciani F*.(2017).PatternsofInter-ChromosomalGene Conversion on
the Male-Specific Region of the Human Y Chromosome. * Co- corresponding authors. Front Genet
8:54.
24. Trombetta B, Cruciani F. (2017). Y chromosome palindromes and gene conversion. Human
Genetics 136:605-619.
25. Iacovacci G, D'Atanasio E, Marini O, Coppa A, Sellitto D, Trombetta B, Berti A, Cruciani F.
(2017). Forensic data and microvariant sequence characterization of 27 Y- STR loci analyzed in four
Eastern African countries. Forensic Sci Int Genet 27:123-131. 5

26. Trombetta B*, Fantini G, D’Atanasio E, Sellitto D, Cruciani F*. (2016). Evidence of extensive non-
allelic gene conversion among LTR elements in the human genome. * Co- corresponding authors.

Scientific Reports 6: 28710.
27. Trombetta B, D'Atanasio E, Massaia A, Myres NM, Scozzari R, Cruciani F, Novelletto A. (2015).
Regional Differences in the Accumulation of SNPs on the Male-Specific Portion of the Human Y
Chromosome Replicate Autosomal Patterns: Implications for Genetic Dating. PLoS One 10:
e0134646.
28. Trombetta B, D'Atanasio E, Massaia A, Ippoliti M, Coppa A, Candilio F, Coia V, Russo G,
Dugoujon JM, Moral P, Akar N, Sellitto D, Valesini G, Novelletto A, Scozzari R, Cruciani F.
(2015). Phylogeographic Refinement and Large Scale Genotyping of Human Y Chromosome
Haplogroup E Provide New Insights into the Dispersal of Early Pastoralists in the African Continent.
Genome Biology and Evolution 7:1940-1950.
29. Trombetta B, Sellitto D, Scozzari R, Cruciani F. (2014). Inter- and intraspecies phylogenetic
analyses reveal extensive X-Y gene conversion in the evolution of gametologous sequences of
human sex chromosomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution 31:2108-2123.
30. Scozzari R, Massaia A, Trombetta B, Bellusci G, Myres NM, Novelletto A, Cruciani F. (2014). An
unbiased resource of novel SNP markers provides a new chronology for the human Y chromosome
and reveals a deep phylogenetic structure in Africa. Genome Research 24:535-544.
31. Scozzari R, Massaia A, D'Atanasio E, Myres NM, Perego UA, Trombetta B, Cruciani F. (2012).
Molecular dissection of the basal clades in the human Y chromosome phylogenetic tree. PLoS One
7: e49170.

32. Cruciani F, Trombetta B, Massaia A, Destro-Bisol G, Sellitto D, Scozzari R. (2011). A revised root
for the human Y chromosomal phylogenetic tree: the origin of patrilineal diversity in Africa.
American Journal of Human Genetics 88: 814-818.
33. Trombetta B, Cruciani F, Sellitto D, Scozzari R. (2011). A new topology of the human Y
chromosome haplogroup E1b1 (E-P2) revealed through the use of newly characterized binary
polymorphisms. PLoS One 6:e16 073.
34. Cruciani F, Trombetta B, Antonelli C, Pascone R, Valesini G, Scalzi V, Vona G, Melegh B,

Zagradisnik B, Assum G, Efremov GD, Sellitto D, Scozzari R. (2011). Strong intra- and inter-
continental differentiation revealed by Y chromosome SNPs M269, U106 and U152. Forensic

Science International – Genetics 5: e49-52.
35. Cruciani F, Trombetta B, Macaulay V, Scozzari R. (2010). About the X-to-Y gene conversion rate.
American Journal of Human Genetics 86: 495-497.
36. Cruciani F, Trombetta B, Sellitto D, Massaia A, Destro-Bisol G, Watson E, Beraud Colomb E,
Dugoujon JM, Moral P, Scozzari R. (2010). Human Y chromosome haplogroup R-V88: a paternal
genetic record of early mid Holocene trans-Saharan connections and the spread of Chadic languages.
European Journal of Human Genetics 18: 800-807.
37. Trombetta B, Cruciani F, Underhill PA, Sellitto D, Scozzari R. (2010). Footprints of X- to-Y gene
conversion in recent human evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution 27:714-725.
38. Cruciani F, Trombetta B, Sellitto D, Massaia A, Destro-Bisol G, Watson E, Beraud Colomb E,
Dugoujon JM, Moral P, Scozzari R. (2010). Chadic languages and Y haplogroups Reply to Lancaster
European Journal of Human Genetics 18: 1186-1187.
39. Cruciani F, Trombetta B, Labuda D, Modiano D, Torroni A, Costa R, Scozzari R. (2008). Genetic
diversity patterns at the human clock gene period 2 are suggestive of population-specific positive
selection. European Journal of Human Genetics 16:1526- 1534.
40. Cruciani F, Trombetta B, Novelletto A, Scozzari R. (2008). Recurrent mutation in SNPs within Y
chromosome E3b (E-M215) haplogroup: a rebuttal. American Journal of Human Biology 20:614-
616.
41. Cruciani F, La Fratta R, Trombetta B, Santolamazza P, Sellitto D, Colomb EB, Dugoujon JM,
Crivellaro F, Benincasa T, Pascone R, Moral P, Watson E, Melegh B, Barbujani G, Fuselli S, Vona
G, Zagradisnik B, Assum G, Brdicka R, Kozlov AI, Efremov GD, Coppa A, Novelletto A, Scozzari
R. (2007). Tracing past human male movements in northern/eastern Africa and western Eurasia: new
clues from Y- chromosomal haplogroups E-M78 and J-M12. Molecular Biology and Evolution
24:1300-1311.
42. Tucci GF, Winfield MO, D’Amato GF, Gregori C, Trombetta B, De Dominicis RI. (2004) Genetic
diversity in Narcissus poëticus L. and N. radiiflorus Salisb. (Amaryllidaceae) in two different
populations: AFLP and karyological studies. Caryologia 57: 405-411.
43. Di Pietro R, D'Amato G, Trombetta B. (2003). Karyology and distribution of Sesleria tenuifolia
complex (Poaceae) in the Italian Peninsula. Nordic Journal of Botany 23:615- 623.