Authors: Marco, Sazzini, Guido Alberto, Gnecchi Ruscone, Cristina, Giuliani, Stefania, Sarno, Andrea, Quagliariello, Sara, De Fanti, Alessio, Boattini, Davide, Gentilini, Giovanni, Fiorito, Mariagrazia, Catanoso, Luigi, Boiardi, Croci, Pierluigi, Macchioni, Vilma, Mantovani, Anna Maria, Di Blasio, Giuseppe, Matullo, Carlo, Salvarani, Claudio, Franceschi, Pettener, Paolo, Garagnani, Donata, Luiselli
Venue: Scientific Reports
Type: Publication
Abstract: AbstractThe Italian peninsula has long represented a natural hub for human migrations across the Mediterranean area, being involved in several prehistoric and historical population movements. Coupled with a patchy environmental landscape entailing different ecological/cultural selective pressures, this might have produced peculiar patterns of population structure and local adaptations responsible for heterogeneous genomic background of present-day Italians. To disentangle this complex scenario, genome-wide data from 780 Italian individuals were...
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Topics: 
Evolutionary biology
Genetics
Ecology
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