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| Title |
Uniparental Markers in Italy Reveal a Sex-Biased Genetic Structure and Different Historical Strata
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, May 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0065441 |
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| Authors |
Alessio Boattini, Begoña Martinez-Cruz, Stefania Sarno, Christine Harmant, Antonella Useli, Paula Sanz, Daniele Yang-Yao, Jeremy Manry, Graziella Ciani, Donata Luiselli, Lluis Quintana-Murci, David Comas, Davide Pettener |
| Abstract |
Located in the center of the Mediterranean landscape and with an extensive coastal line, the territory of what is today Italy has played an important role in the history of human settlements and movements of Southern Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. Populated since Paleolithic times, the complexity of human movements during the Neolithic, the Metal Ages and the most recent history of the two last millennia (involving the overlapping of different cultural and demic strata) has shaped the pattern of the modern Italian genetic structure. With the aim of disentangling this pattern and understanding which processes more importantly shaped the distribution of diversity, we have analyzed the uniparentally-inherited markers in ∼900 individuals from an extensive sampling across the Italian peninsula, Sardinia and Sicily. Spatial PCAs and DAPCs revealed a sex-biased pattern indicating different demographic histories for males and females. Besides the genetic outlier position of Sardinians, a North West-South East Y-chromosome structure is found in continental Italy. Such structure is in agreement with recent archeological syntheses indicating two independent and parallel processes of Neolithisation. In addition, date estimates pinpoint the importance of the cultural and demographic events during the late Neolithic and Metal Ages. On the other hand, mitochondrial diversity is distributed more homogeneously in agreement with older population events that might be related to the presence of an Italian Refugium during the last glacial period in Europe. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Italy | 1 | 11% |
| Mexico | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 7 | 78% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 89% |
| Scientists | 1 | 11% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 84 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 22 | 24% |
| Researcher | 12 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 10% |
| Other | 8 | 9% |
| Professor | 6 | 7% |
| Other | 16 | 18% |
| Unknown | 17 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 35 | 39% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 19 | 21% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 4% |
| Environmental Science | 3 | 3% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 8 | 9% |
| Unknown | 18 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 March 2024.
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