Fulvio Cruciani

1) D'ATANASIO E, PISTACCHIA L, BELLA E, RAVASINI F, HAJIESMAEIL M, RISI F, SANZICO
C, LA RICCIA P, SIGGILLINO F, MESCHINO N, BLANDINO F, COTRONEO E, SPINELLA F, TROMBETTA B, NOVELLETTO A, CRUCIANI F* (2026) A new non-invasive prenatal paternity
test based on double nucleotide polymorphisms abates sequencing uncertainties and improves
sensitivity. Genome Res. Under review
2) MENATO F, PEPE G, MERCURI E, ZANGARO F, CANGIALOSI G, JODICE C, GULÌ M, CRUCIANI F, TROMBETTA B, HELMER-CITTERICH M, 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. Sci Rep:
16:1528. 3) 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:vbaf209
4) COLOMBO G, MORONI E, RAVEANE A, RAMBALDI MIGLIORE N, AGOSTINI V, DI
GERLANDO R, FIORINI C, CAPORALI L, GANDINI F, RAIMONDI E, 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 massive survey of mitogenomes. Sci Rep 15:27025
5) RAVASINI F, CONATI BARBARO C, SCHEIB CL, TAMBETS K, METSPALU M, CRUCIANI F, TROMBETTA B, 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 (2025) Genome
Biol Evol 17:evaf149
6) BARNI F, RALF A, DELLA ROCCA C, CANNISTRÀ F, GIGLIUCCI M, TROMBETTA B, BERTI
A, KAYSER MH, 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
7) RAVASINI F, KABRAL H, SOLNIK A, DE GENNARO L, MONTINARO F, HUI R, DELPINO C, FINOCCHI S, GIROLDINI P, MEI O, BECK DE LOTTO MA, CILLI E, HAJIESMAEIL M, PISTACCHIA L, RISI F, GIACOMETTI C, SCHEIB CL, TAMBETS K, METSPALU M, CRUCIANI
F, D'ATANASIO E, TROMBETTA B (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
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.e4
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 through Y chromosome sequencing read depth analysis. Sci
Rep 13:11857
10) BONITO M, RAVASINI F, NOVELLETTO A, D'ATANASIO E, CRUCIANI F*, TROMBETTA B*
(2023) Disclosing complex mutational dynamics at a Y chromosome palindrome evolving through
intra- and inter-chromosomal gene conversion. Hum Mol Genet 32:65-78

11) 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
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
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 DYS448
deletion and DYF387S1 duplication. Front Genet 12:669405
15) 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 colonisation and the trans-Atlantic slave trades. Genome Biol Evol 12: 1579-1590
16) 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
17) ALLADIO E, DELLA ROCCA C, BARNI F, DUGOUJON JM, GAROFANO P, SEMINO O, BERTI
A, NOVELLETTO A, VINCENTI M, CRUCIANI F (2020) A multivariate statistical approach for the
estimation of the ethnic origin of unknown genetic profiles in forensic genetics. Forensic Sci Int Genet
45:102209
18) 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 Biol 17:3
19) 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
20) 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
21) FINOCCHIO A, TROMBETTA B, MESSINA F, D'ATANASIO E, AKAR N, LOUTRADIS A, MICHALODIMITRAKIS EI, CRUCIANI F, NOVELLETTO A (2018) A finely resolved phylogeny
of Y chromosome Hg J illuminates the processes of Phoenician and Greek colonizations in the
Mediterranean. Sci Rep 8:7465
22) 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 revealed by high-coverage resequencing of trans-Saharan patrilineages. Genome Biology 19:20
23) TROMBETTA B, D'ATANASIO E, CRUCIANI F* (2017) Patterns of Inter-Chromosomal Gene
Conversion on the Male-Specific Region of the Human Y Chromosome. Front Genet 8:54
24) TROMBETTA B, CRUCIANI F* (2017) Y chromosome palindromes and gene conversion. Hum
Genet 136:605-619. 25) IACOVACCI G, D'ATANASIO E, MARINI E, 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 Genetics 27:123-131

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. Sci Rep 6:28710
27) GANDINI F, ACHILLI A, PALA M, BODNER M, BRANDINI S, HUBER G, EGYED B, FERRETTI
L, GÓMEZ-CARBALLA A, SALAS A, SCOZZARI R, CRUCIANI F, COPPA A, PARSON W, SEMINO O, SOARES P, TORRONI A, RICHARDS M, OLIVIERI A (2016) Mapping human
dispersals into the Horn of Africa from Arabian Ice Age refugia using mitogenomes. Sci Rep 6:25472
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28) RAPONE C, D’ATANASIO E, AGOSTINO A, MARIANO M, PAPALUCA MT, CRUCIANI F*, BERTI A (2016) Forensic genetic value of a 27 Y-STR loci multiplex (Yfiler® Plus kit) in an Italian
population sample. Forensic Sci Int Genet 21:e1-5
29) 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. 30) 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 Biol Evol 7:1940-1950
31) MOSCHETTI R, CELAURO E, CRUCIANI F, CAIZZI R, DIMITRI P (2014) On the evolution of
Yeti, a Drosophila melanogaster heterochromatin gene. Plos One 9:e0113010
32) TROMBETTA B, SELLITTO D, SCOZZARI R, CRUCIANI F* (2014) Inter- and intra-species
phylogenetic analyses reveal extensive X-Y gene conversion in the evolution of gametologous
sequences of human sex chromosomes. Mol Biol Evol 31:2108-2123
33) 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 Res 24:535-544
34) 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
35) 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. Am J Hum Genet 88:814-818
36) 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 Sci Int Genet 5:e49-52. 37) 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:e16073
38) CRUCIANI F, TROMBETTA B, MACAULAY V, SCOZZARI R (2010) About the X-to-Y gene
conversion rate. Am J Hum Genet 86: 495-497
39) TROMBETTA B, CRUCIANI F, UNDERHILL PA, SELLITTO D, SCOZZARI R (2010) Footprints
of X-to-Y gene conversion in recent human evolution. Mol Biol Evol 27: 714-725
40) 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. Eur J Hum Genet 18:1186-1187
41) 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. Eur J Hum Genet 18:800-807

42) COIA V, BRISIGHELLI F, DONATI F, PASCALI V, BOSCHI I, LUISELLI D, BATTAGGIA C, BATINI C, TAGLIOLI L, CRUCIANI F, PAOLI G, CAPELLI C, SPEDINI G, DESTRO-BISOL G
(2009) A multi-perspective view of genetic variation in Cameroon. Am J Phys Anthropol 140: 454-464
43) CRUCIANI F, TROMBETTA B, NOVELLETTO A, SCOZZARI R. (2008) Recurrent mutation in
SNPs within Y chromosome E3b (E-M215) haplogroup: A rebuttal. Am J Hum Biol 20: 614-616
44) HENN BM, GIGNOUX C, LIN AA, OEFNER PJ, SHEN P, SCOZZARI R, CRUCIANI F, TISHKOFF SA, MOUNTAIN JL AND UNDERHILL PA (2008) Y-chromosomal Evidence of a
Pastoralist Migration through Tanzania to Southern Africa. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 105: 10693-10698
45) 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. Eur J Hum Genet 16:1526-1534
46) 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. Mol Biol Evol 24: 1300-1311
47) KING TE, PARKIN EJ, SWINFIELD G, CRUCIANI F, SCOZZARI R, ROSA A, LIM SK, XUE Y, TYLER-SMITH C, JOBLING MA (2007) Africans in Yorkshire? The deepest-rooting clade of the Y
phylogeny within an English genealogy. Eur J Hum Genet 12: 288-293
48) OLIVIERI A, ACHILLI A, PALA M, BATTAGLIA V, FORNARINO S, AL-ZAHERY N, SCOZZARI R, CRUCIANI F, BEHAR DM, DUGOUJON J-M, COUDRAY C, SANTACHIARA- BENERECETTI AS, SEMINO O, BANDELT H-J, TORRONI A (2006) The mtDNA legacy of the
Levantine early Upper Palaeolithic in Africa. Science 314: 1767-1770
49) CRUCIANI F, LA FRATTA R, UNDERHILL PA, TORRONI A, SCOZZARI R (2006) Molecular
dissection of the Y chromosome haplogroup E-M78 (E3b1a): a posteriori evaluation of a microsatellite- network-based approach through six new biallelic markers. Hum Mutat 27: 831-832
50) COIA V, DESTRO-BISOL G, VERGINELLI F, BATTAGGIA C, BOSCHI I, CRUCIANI F, SPEDINI G, COMAS D, CALAFELL F (2005) mtDNA variation in North Cameroon: lack of Asian
lineages and implications for back migration from Asia to sub-Saharan Africa. Am J Phys Anthropol. 128: 678-681
51) MACAULAY V, HILL C, ACHILLI A, RENGO C, CLARKE D, MEEHAN W, BLACKBURN J, SEMINO O, SCOZZARI R, CRUCIANI F, TAHA A, SHAARI NK, RAJA JM, ISMAIL P, ZAINUDDIN Z, GOODWIN W, BULBECK D, BANDELT H-J, OPPENHEIMER S, TORRONI A, RICHARDS M (2005) Tracing modern human origins. Science 309: 1995-1996
52) MACAULAY V, HILL C, ACHILLI A, RENGO C, CLARKE D, MEEHAN W, BLACKBURN J, SEMINO O, SCOZZARI R, CRUCIANI F, TAHA A, SHAARI NK, RAJA JM, ISMAIL P, ZAINUDDIN Z, GOODWIN W, BULBECK D, BANDELT HJ, OPPENHEIMER S, TORRONI A, RICHARDS M (2005) Single, rapid coastal settlement of Asia revealed by analysis of complete
mitochondrial genomes. Science 308: 1034-1036
53) FUSELLI S, DUPANLOUP I, FRIGATO E, CRUCIANI F, SCOZZARI R, MORAL P, SISTONEN J, SAJANTILA A, BARBUJANI G (2004) Molecular diversity at the CYP2D6 locus in the Mediterranean
region. Eur J Hum Genet 12: 916-924
54) ZHIVOTOVSKY LA, UNDERHILL PA, CINNIOGLU C, KAYSER M, MORAR B, KIVISILD T, SCOZZARI R, CRUCIANI F, DESTRO-BISOL G, SPEDINI G, CHAMBERS GK, HERRERA RJ, YONG KK, GRESHAM D, TOURNEV I, FELDMAN MW, KALAYDJIEVA L (2004) The effective
mutation rate at Y chromosome short tandem repeats, with application to human population-divergence
time. Am J Hum Genet 74: 50-61
55) CRUCIANI F, LA FRATTA R, SANTOLAMAZZA P, SELLITTO D, PASCONE R, MORAL P, WATSON E, GUIDA V, BERAUD COLOMB E, ZAHAROVA B, LAVINHA J, VONA G, AMAN R, CALì F, AKAR N, RICHARDS M, TORRONI A, NOVELLETTO A, SCOZZARI R (2004)
Phylogeographic analysis of haplogroup E3b (E-M215) Y chromosomes reveals multiple migratory
events within and out of Africa. Am J Hum Genet 75: 1014-1022

56) ACHILLI A, RENGO C, MAGRI C, BATTAGLIA V, OLIVIERI A, SCOZZARI R, CRUCIANI F, ZEVIANI M, BRIEM E, CARELLI V, MORAL P, DUGOUJON JM, ROOSTALU U, LOOGVALI EL, KIVISILD T, BANDELT HJ, RICHARDS M, VILLEMS R, SANTACHIARA-BENERECETTI AS, SEMINO O, TORRONI A (2004) The molecular dissection of mtDNA haplogroup H confirms that the
Franco-Cantabrian glacial refuge was a major source for the European gene pool. Am J Hum Genet 75:
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57) CRUCIANI F*, BERNARDINI L, SANTOLAMAZZA P, MODIANO D, TORRONI A, SCOZZARI
R (2003) Linkage disequilibrium analysis of the human adenosine deaminase (ADA) gene provides
evidence for a lack of correlation between hot spots of equal and unequal homologous recombination. Genomics 82: 20-33
58) RICHARDS M, RENGO C, CRUCIANI F, GRATRIX F, WILSON JF, SCOZZARI R, MACAULAY
V, TORRONI A (2003) Extensive female-mediated gene flow from sub-Saharan Africa into near
eastern Arab populations. Am J Hum Genet 72: 1058-1064
59) CRUCIANI F*, SANTOLAMAZZA P, SHEN P, MACAULAY V, MORAL P, OLCKERS A, MODIANO D, HOLMES S, DESTRO-BISOL G, COIA V, WALLACE DC, OEFNER PJ, TORRONI
A, CAVALLI-SFORZA LL, SCOZZARI R, UNDERHILL PA (2002) A back migration from Asia to
sub-Saharan Africa is supported by high-resolution analysis of human Y-chromosome haplotypes. Am J
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60) TORRONI A, RENGO C, GUIDA V, CRUCIANI F, SELLITTO D, COPPA A, LUNA CALDERON
F, SIMIONATI B, VALLE G, RICHARDS M, MACAULAY V, SCOZZARI R (2001) Do the four
clades of the mtDNA haplogroup L2 evolve at different rates? Am J Hum Genet 69: 1348-1356
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M (2001) The lower susceptibility to Plasmodium falciparum malaria of Fulani of Burkina Faso (west
Africa) is associated with low frequencies of classic malaria-resistance genes. Trans R Soc Trop Med
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65) RICHARDS M, MACAULAY V, HICKEY E, VEGA E, SYKES B, GUIDA V, RENGO C, SELLITTO D, CRUCIANI F, KIVISILD T, VILLEMS R, THOMAS M, RYCHKOV S, RYCHKOV
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founder lineages in the Near Eastern mtDNA pool. Am J Hum Genet 67: 1251-1276
66) GENNARELLI M, PAVONI M, CRUCIANI F, DE STEFANO G, DALLA PICCOLA B, NOVELLI
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Combined use of biallelic and microsatellite Y chromosome polymorphisms to infer affinities among
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Network analyses of Y-chromosomal types in Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia reveal specific
patterns of geographic distribution. Am J Hum Genet 63: 847-60
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