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Alessio Boattini

Associate Professor

Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences

Academic discipline: BIOS-03/B Anthropology

Teaching

Recent dissertations supervised by the teacher.

Second cycle degree programmes dissertations

  • Detecting the evolutionary impact of transposable elements in Homo sapiens with archaic/ancient and modern genomes
  • Exploring signatures of adaptive introgression on chromosome 22 in worldwide human populations
  • Polymorphic transposable element insertions provide new insights on North-Eastern Italian isolates’ genetic variability
  • Testing novel methods for the detection of positive selection signatures in worldwide human populations
  • Worldwide Patterns of Differentiation and Positive Selection in Populations of The 1000 Genomes Project

PhD programmes thesis

  • Retrotransposons in human evolution and brain diseases: investigating modern and ancient variability through the lens of mobile elements