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Albano F, Pannunzio A, Anelli L, Zagaria A, Liso V, Rocchi M, Specchia G: Genomic and molecular switching in relapsed acute promyelocytic leukemia. Leukemia (2008)
Cardone MF, Jiang Z, D'Addabbo P, Archidiacono N, Rocchi M, Eichler EE, Ventura M: Hominoid chromosomal rearrangements on 17q map to complex regions of segmental duplication. Genome Biol 9:R28 (2008)
Capozzi O, Purgato S, Verdun di Cantogno L, Grosso E, Ciccone R, Zuffardi O, Della Valle G, Rocchi M: Evolutionary and clinical neocentromeres: two faces of the same coin? Chromosoma (2008)
Impera L, Albano F, Mancini M, Aventin A, Rocchi M, Storlazzi CT: Similar mechanisms formed ring markers containing chromosome 12 pericentromeric region in two patients with therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia. Cancer Genet Cytogenet (2008)
Stanyon R, Rocchi R, Capozzi O, Roberto R, Misceo D, Ventura M, Cardone M, Bigoni F, Archidiacono N: Primate chromosome evolution: ancestral karyotypes, marker order and neocentromeres. Chromosome Res (2008)
Storlazzi C, Albano F, Guastadisegni MC, Impera L, Muhlematter D, Meyer-Monard S, Wuillemin W, Rocchi M, Jotterand M: Upregulation of MEL1 and FLJ42875 genes by position effect resulting from a t(1;2)(p36;p21) occurring during evolution of chronic myelomonocytic leukaemia. Blood Cells Mol Dis (2008)
Surace C, Pedeutour F, Trombetta D, Burel-Vandenbos F, Rocchi M, Storlazzi CT: MYCN is uncommonly amplified in the form of episomes in a case of medulloblastoma. Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics (2008)
2008 ( top )
Antonacci R, Di Tommaso S, Lanave C, Cribiu EP, Ciccarese S, Massari S: Organization, structure and evolution of 41kb of genomic DNA spanning the D-J-C region of the sheep TRB locus. Mol Immunol 45:493-509 (2008)
Qiu H, Taudien S, Herlyn H, Schmitz J, Zhou Y, Chen G, Roberto R, Rocchi M, Platzer M, Wojnowski L: CYP3 phylogenomics: evidence for positive selection of CYP3A4 and CYP3A7. Pharmacogenet Genomics 18:53-66 (2008)
2007 ( top )
Albano F, Anelli L, Zagaria A, Archidiacono N, Liso V, Specchia G, Rocchi M: "Home-brew" FISH assay shows higher efficiency than BCR-ABL dual color, dual fusion probe in detecting microdeletions and complex rearrangements associated with t(9;22) in chronic myeloid leukemia. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 174:121-126 (2007).
Antonacci R, Di Tommaso S, Lanave C, Cribiu EP, Ciccarese S, Massari S: Organization, structure and evolution of 41kb of genomic DNA spanning the D-J-C region of the sheep TRB locus. Mol Immunol 45:493-509 (2008)
Alkan C, Ventura M, Archidiacono N, Rocchi M, Sahinalp SC, Eichler EE: Organization and evolution of primate centromeric DNA from whole-genome shotgun sequence data. PLoS Comput Biol 3:1807-1818 (2007).
Antonacci R, Vaccarelli G, Di Meo GP, Piccinni B, Miccoli MC, Cribiu EP, Perucatti A, Iannuzzi L, Ciccarese S.: Molecular in situ hybridization analysis of sheep and goat BAC clones identifies the transcriptional orientation of T cell receptor gamma genes on chromosome 4 in bovids. Vet Res Commun. 31: 977-983 (2007)
Bodega B, Cardone MF, Muller S, Neusser M, Orzan F, Rossi E, Battaglioni E, Marozzi A, Riva P, Rocchi M, Meneveri R, Ginelli E: Evolutionary genomic remodelling of the human 4q subtelomere (4q35.2). BMC Evol Biol 7:39 (2007).
Cardone MF, Lomiento M, Teti MG, Misceo D, Roberto R, Capozzi O, D'Addabbo P, Ventura M, Rocchi M, Archidiacono N: Evolutionary history of chromosome 11 featuring four distinct centromere repositioning events in Catarrhini. Genomics 90: 35-43 (2007)
Giorda R, Ciccone R, Gimelli G, Pramparo T, Beri S, Bonaglia MC, Giglio S, Genuardi M, Argente J, Rocchi M, Zuffardi O: Two classes of low-copy repeats comediate a new recurrent rearrangement consisting of duplication at 8p23.1 and triplication at 8p23.2. Hum Mut 28:459-468 (2007).
Jiang Z, Tang H, Ventura M, Cardone MF, Marques-Bonet T, She X, Pevzner PA, Eichler EE: Ancestral reconstruction of segmental duplications reveals punctuated cores of human genome evolution. Nat Genet (2007).
Mefford HC, Clauin S, Sharp AJ, Moller RS, Ullmann R, Kapur R, Pinkel D, Cooper GM, Ventura M, Ropers HH, Tommerup N, Eichler EE, Bellanne-Chantelot C: Recurrent reciprocal genomic rearrangements of 17q12 are associated with renal disease, diabetes, and epilepsy. Am J Hum Genet 81:1057-69 (2007).
Minervini CF, Marsano RM, Casieri P, Fanti L, Caizzi R, Pimpinelli S, Rocchi M, Viggiano L: Heterochromatin protein 1 interacts with 5'UTR of transposable element ZAM in a sequence-specific fashion. Gene 393:1-10 (2007).
Roberto R, Capozzi O, Wilson RK, Mardis ER, Lomiento M, Tuzun E, Cheng Z, Mootnick AR, Archidiacono N, Rocchi M, Eichler EE: Molecular refinement of gibbon genome rearrangement. Genome Res 17:249-257 (2007)
Rossi F, Moschetti R, Caizzi R, Corradini N, Dimitri P: Cytogenetic and molecular characterization of heterochromatin gene models in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 175:195-607(2006).
Storlazzi CT, Albano F, Dencic-Fekete M, Djordjevic V, Rocchi M: Late-appearing pseudocentric fission event during chronic myeloid leukemia progression. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 174:61-7 (2007).
Storlazzi CT, Albano F, Lo Cunsolo C, Doglioni C, Guastadisegni MC, Impera L, Lonoce A, Funes S, Macri E, Iuzzolino P, Panagopoulos I, Specchia G, Rocchi M. Upregulation of the SOX5 by promoter swapping with the P2RY8 gene in primary splenic follicular lymphoma. Leukemia. 2007 Jun 7; [Epub ahead of print]
Ventura A, Antonacci F, Cardone MF, Stanyon R, D'Addabbo P, Cellamare A, Sprague LJ, Eichler EE, Archidiacono N, Rocchi M: Evolutionary formation of new centromeres in macaque. Science 316:243-246 (2007).
2006 ( top )
Albano F, Specchia G, Anelli L, Zagaria A, Archidiacono N, Liso V, Rocchi M: Molecular cytogenetic findings supporting the evidence of a biclonal origin in acute myeloid leukemia. Ann Hematol 85:129-31 (2006).
Blasi P, Palmerio F, Aiello A, Rocchi M, Malaspina P, Novelletto A: SSADH Variation in Primates: Intra- and Interspecific Data on a Gene with a Potential Role in Human Cognitive Functions. J Mol Evol 63:54-68 (2006).
Bodega B, Cardone MF, Rocchi M, Meneveri R, Marozzi A, Ginelli E: The boundary of macaque rDNA is constituted by low copy sequences conserved during evolution. Genomics 88:564-571 (2006).
Carbone L, Nergadzeb SG, Magnani E, Misceo D, Cardone MF, Roberto R, Bertoni L, Attolini C, Piras MF, de Jong P, Raudseppd T, Chowdharyd BP, Guérin G, Archidiacono N, Rocchi M, Giulotto E: Evolutionary movement of centromeres in horse, donkey, and zebra. Genomics 87:777-782 (2006).
Cardone MF, Alonso A, Pazienza P, Ventura M, Montemurro G, Carbone L, de Jong PJ, Stanyon R, D'Addabbo P, Archidiacono N, She X, Eichler EE, Warburton PE, and Rocchi M: Independent centromere formation in a capricious gene-free domain of chromosome 13q21 in Old World monkeys and pigs. Genome Biol 7:R91 (2006)
Ciampi MS: Rho-dependent terminators and transcription termination. Microbiology 152:2515-28 (2006).
Ciccone R, Mattina T, Giorda R, Bonaglia MC, Rocchi M, Pramparo T, Zuffardi O. Inversion polymorphisms and non-contiguous terminal deletions: the cause and the (unpredicted) effect of our genome architecture. J Med Genet. 2006 May;43(5):e19.
Johnson ME, Cheng Z, Morrison VA, Scherer S, Ventura M, Gibbs RA, Green ED, Eichler EE: Recurrent duplication-driven transposition of DNA during hominoid evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:17626-17631 (2006)
Rocchi M, Archidiacono N, Stanyon R: Ancestral genomes reconstruction: an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach is needed. Genome Res 16:1566-1574 (2006).
Rocchi M. and Archidiacono N.: Genome Plasticity in Evolution. In “Genomic Disorders: The Genomic Basis of Disease”, pp. 153-165 P. Stankiewicz and J.R. Lupski Editors, Humana Press (2006) ISBN 1-58829-559-1
She X, Liu G, Ventura M, Zhao S, Misceo D, Roberto R, Cardone MF, Rocchi M, Comparative Sequencing Program, Green ED, Archidiacono N, Eichler EE: An initial comparative analysis of primate segmental duplications shows elevated substitution rates and a great-ape expansion of intrachromosomal duplications. Genome Res: 576-583 (2006)
Storlazzi CT, Albano F, Locunsolo C, Lonoce A, Funes S, Guastadisegni MC, Cimarosto L, Impera L, D'Addabbo P, Panagopoulos I, Specchia G, Rocchi M. t(3;12)(q26;q14) in polycythemia vera is associated with upregulation of the HMGA2 gene. Leukemia. 2006 Dec;20(12):2190-2. Epub 2006 Oct 5.
Storlazzi CT, Fioretos T, Surace C, Lonoce A, Mastrorilli A, Strömbeck B, D’Addabbo P, Iacovelli F, Minervini C, Aventin A, Dastugue N, Fonatsch C, Hagemeijer A, Jotterand M, Mühlematter D, Lafage-Pochitaloff M, Nguyen-Khac F, Schoch C, Slovak ML, Smith A, Solè F, Van Roy N, Johansson B, Rocchi M: MYC-containing double minutes in hematologic malignancies: evidence in favor of the episome model and exclusion of MYC as the target gene. Hum Mol Genet 15:933-942 (2006)
Trubia M, Albano F, Cavazzini F, Cambrin GR, Quarta G, Fabbiano F, Ciambelli F, Magro D, M. HJ, Mancini M, Diverio D, Pelicci PG, L. CF, Mecucci C, Specchia G, Rocchi M, Liso V, Cuneo A: Characterization of a recurrent translocation t(2;3)(p15–22;q26) occurring in acute myeloid leukaemia. Leukemia 20:48-54 (2006)
Van Roy N, Vandesompele J, Menten B, Nilsson, De Smet E, Rocchi M, De Paepe A, Påhlman S, Speleman F: Translocation-excision-deletion-amplification mechanism leading to non-syntenic co-amplification of MYC and ATBF1. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 45:107-117 (2006).
Zagaria A, Anelli L, Albano F, Vicari L, Schiavone EM, Annunziata M, Pane F, Liso V, Rocchi M, Specchia G. Molecular cytogenetic characterization of deletions on der(9) in chronic myelocytic leukemia. Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 2006 Jun;167(2):97-102.
2005 ( top )
Anelli L, Albano F, Zagaria A, Liso, Cuneo A, Mancini M, Liso V, Rocchi M, Specchia G. Pericentric chromosome 8 inversion associated with the 5’RUNX1/3’CBFA2T1 gene in acute myeloid leukemia cases. Ann Hematol 84:245-9 (2005).
Antonacci R., Lanave C., Del Faro L., Vaccarelli G., Ciccarese S., Massari S. Artiodactyl emergence is accompanied by the birth of an extensive pool of diverse germline TRDV1 genes. Immunogenetics 57: 254-266 (2005).
Cheng Z, Ventura M, She X, Khaitovich P, Graves T, Osoegawa K, Church D, DeJong P, Wilson RK, Paabo S, Rocchi M and Eichler EE: A Genome-wide comparison of recent human and chimpanzee segmental duplications. Nature 437:88-93 (2005)
Chimpanzee Consortium: Initial sequence of the chimpanzee genome and comparison with the human genome. Nature 437:69-87 (2005)
Horvath JE, Gulden CL, Vallente RU, Eichler MY, Ventura M, McPherson JD, Graves TA, Wilson RK, Schwartz S, Rocchi M, Eichler EE. Punctuated duplication seeding events during the evolution of human chromosome 2p11. Genome Res. 2005 Jul;15(7):914-27
Jackson MS, Oliver K, Loveland J, Humphray JS, Dunham I, Rocchi M, Viggiano V, P. Park JP, Hurles M, Santibanez-Koref M: Reticulate evolution is prevalent within recently duplicated human DNA. 77:824-840 Am J Hum Genet (2005).
Locke DP, Jiang Z, Pertz LM, Misceo D, Archidiacono N, Eichler EE. Molecular evolution of the human chromosome 15 pericentromeric region. Cytogenet Genome Res. 2005;108(1-3):73-82.
Marzella R, Carrozzo C, Chiarappa P, Miolla V, Rocchi M: Panels of somatic cell hybrids specific for chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, and baboon. Cytogenet Genome Res 108:223-228 (2005).
Miccoli MC, Vaccarelli G, Lanave C, Cribiu EP, Ciccarese S: Comparative analyses of sheep and human TRG joining regions: Evolution of J genes in Bovidae is driven by sequence conservation in their promoters for germline transcription. Gene 355:67-78 (2005).
Misceo D, Cardone MF, Carbone L, D'Addabbo P, de Jong PJ, Rocchi M, Archidiacono N: Evolutionary history of chromosome 20. Mol Biol Evol 22:360-366 (2005).
Newman TL, Tuzun E, Morrison VA, Hayden KE, Ventura M, McGrath SD, Rocchi M, Eichler EE: A genome-wide survey of structural variation between human and chimpanzee. Genome Res 15:1344-1356 (2005) .
Sardiello M, Tripoli G, Romito A, Minervini C, Viggiano L, Caggese C, Pesole G: Energy biogenesis: one key for coordinating two genomes. Trends Genet 21:12-6 (2005).
Schueler MG, Dunn JM, Bird CP, Ross MT, Viggiano L, Rocchi M, Willard HF, Green ED. Progressive proximal expansion of the primate X chromosome centromere. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Jul 26;102(30):10563-8
Specchia G, Albano F, Anelli L, Zagaria A, Liso A, Pannunzio A, Archidiacono N, Liso V, Rocchi M: Molecular cytogenetic study of instability at 1q21 approximately q32 in adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 156:54-8 (2005).
Surace C, Storlazzi CT, Engellau J, Domanski HA, Gustafson P, Panagopoulos I, D'Addabbo P, Rocchi M, Mandahl N, Mertens F: Molecular cytogenetic characterization of an ins(4;X) occurring as the sole abnormality in an aggressive, poorly differentiated soft tissue sarcoma. Virchows Arch 447:869-874 (2005).
Storlazzi CT, Von Steyern FV, Domanski HA, Mandahl N, Mertens F: Biallelic somatic inactivation of the NF1 gene through chromosomal translocations in a sporadic neurofibroma. Int J Cancer 117:1055-7 (2005).
Tripoli G, D'Elia D, Barsanti P, Caggese C: Comparison of the oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) nuclear genes in the genomes of Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila pseudoobscura and Anopheles gambiae. Genome Biol 6:R11 (2005).
Vaccarelli G, Miccoli MC, Lanave C, Massari S, Cribiu EP, Ciccarese S: Genomic organization of the sheep TRG1@ locus and comparative analyses of Bovidae and human variable genes. Gene (2005).
Wieser R, Fritz B, Ullmann R, Muller I, Galhuber M, Storlazzi CT, Ramaswamy A, Christiansen H, Shimizu N, Rehder H: Novel rearrangement of chromosome band 22q11.2 causing 22q11 microdeletion syndrome-like phenotype and rhabdoid tumor of the kidney. Hum Mutat 26:78-83 (2005).
2004 ( top )
Anelli L., Albano F., Zagaria A., Liso A., Roberti M. G., Rocchi M., and Specchia G. (2004). A chronic myelocytic leukemia case bearing deletions on the three chromosomes involved in a variant t(9;22;11). Cancer Genet Cytogenet 148: 137-40.
Bailey JA, Church DM, Ventura M, Rocchi M, Eichler EE: An analysis of segmental duplications and genome assembly in the mouse. Gen. Res. 14:789-801 (2004).
Cardone MF, Ballarati L, Ventura M, Rocchi M, Marozzi A, Ginelli E, Meneveri R: Evolution of Beta satellite DNA sequences: evidence for duplication-mediated repeat amplification and spreading. Mol Biol Evol 21:1792-9 (2004).
Marsano RM, Marconi S, Moschetti R, Barsanti P, Caggese C, Caizzi R: MAX, a novel retrotransposon of the BEL-Pao family, is nested within the Bari1 cluster at the heterochromatic h39 region of chromosome 2 in Drosophila melanogaster. Mol Genet Genomics 270:477-84 (2004).
Moschetti R, Marsano RM, Barsanti P, Caggese C, and Caizzi R. FB elements can promote exon shuffling: a promoter-less white allele can be reactivated by FB mediated transposition in Drosophila melanogaster. Mol Genet Genomics 271:394-401. (2004).
Nergadze S, Rocchi M, Azzalin CM, Mondello C, Giulotto E: Insertion of telomeric repeats at intrachromosomal break sites during primate evolution. Genome Res 14:1704-10 (2004).
Panagopoulos I, Storlazzi CT, Fletcher CD, Fletcher JA, Nascimento A, Domanski HA, Wejde J, Brosjo O, Rydholm A, Isaksson M, Mandahl N, Mertens F: The chimeric FUS/CREB3l2 gene is specific for low-grade fibromyxoid sarcoma. Genes Chromosomes Cancer 40:218-28 (2004).
She X, Horvath JE, Jiang Z, Ge L, Furey T, Christ L, Clark R, Graves T, Gulden CL, Alkan C, Bailey JA, Sahinalp C, Rocchi M, Haussler D, Wilson R, Miller W, Schwartz S, Eichler EE: The structure and evolution of centromeric transition regions within the human genome. Nature 430:857-6 (2004).
Specchia G, Albano F, Anelli L, Storlazzi CT, Zagaria A, Liso A, Pannunzio A, Pastore D, Mestice A, Greco G, Liso V, Rocchi M: Derivative chromosome 9 deletions in chronic myeloid leukemia are associated with loss of tumor suppressor genes. Leuk Lymphoma 45:689-94 (2004).
Storlazzi CT, Anelli L, Albano F, Zagaria A, Ventura M, Rocchi M, Panagopoulos I, Pannunzio A, Ottaviani E, Liso V, Specchia G: A novel chromosomal translocation t(3;7)(q26;q21) in myeloid leukemia resulting in overexpression of EVI1. Ann Hematol 83: 78-83 (2004).
Storlazzi CT, Fioretos T, Paulsson K, Strombeck B, Lassen C, Ahlgren T, Juliusson G, Mitelman F, Rocchi M, Johansson B: Identification of a commonly amplified 4.3 Mb region with overexpression of C8FW, but not MYC in MYC-containing double minutes in myeloid malignancies. Hum Mol Genet 13:1479-85 (2004).
Surace C, Panagopoulos I, Palsson E, Rocchi M, Mandahl N, Mertens F. A novel FISH assay for SS18-SSX fusion type in synovial sarcoma. Lab Invest. 84:1185-92 (2004).
Ventura M, Boniotto M, Pazienza M, Palumbo V, Cardone MF, Rocchi M, Tossi A, Amoroso A, Crovella S: Localization of b-defensin genes in non human primates. Eur J Histochem 48:185-90 (2004).
Ventura M, Weigl S, Carbone L, Cardone MF, Misceo D, Teti M, D'Addabbo P, Wandall A, Bjorck E, de Jong PJ, She X, Eichler EE, Archidiacono N, Rocchi M. Recurrent sites for new centromere seeding. Genome Res. 14:1696-703 (2004).
Zagaria A, Anelli L, Albano F, Storlazzi CT, Liso A, Roberti MG, Buquicchio C, Liso V, Rocchi M, Specchia G: A fluorescence in situ hybridization study of complex t(9;22) in two chronic myelocytic leukemia cases with a masked Philadelphia chromosome. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 150:81-5 (2004).
Zollino M, Lecce R, Selicorni A, Murdolo M, Mancuso I, Marangi G, Zampino G, Garavelli L, Ferrarini A, Rocchi M, Opitz JM, Neri G. A double cryptic chromosome imbalance is an important factor to explain phenotypic variability in Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome. Eur J Hum Genet. 12:797-804 (2004).
2003 ( top )
Bonaglia MC, Giorda R, Cavallini A, Pramparo T, Rocchi M, Borgatti R, Zuffardi O: Distal trisomy 6p and 20q owing to the concurrent transposition of distal 6p and 20q to the 22q telomere: a genomic polymorphism? J Med Genet 40:e94 (2003).
Saccone C., Caggese C., D'Erchia A.M., Lanave C., Oliva M. and Pesole G. (2003). Molecular clock and gene function. J. Mol. Evol. 57: S277-S285.
Reyes A, Nevo E, Saccone C.: DNA Sequence Variation in the Mitochondrial Control Region of Subterranean Mole Rats, Spalax ehrenbergi Superspecies, in Israel. Mol Biol Evol. 20: 622-32 (2003)
Scrascia M, Forcillo M, Maimone F, Pazzani C. Susceptibility to rifaximin of Vibrio cholerae strains from different geographical areas. J Antimicrob Chemother. 52:303-305 (2003)
Kambris Z, Bilak H, D'Alessandro R, Belvin M, Imler JL, Capovilla M.: DmMyD88 controls dorsoventral patterning of the Drosophila embryo. EMBO Rep. 4: 64-9 (2003)
Tritto P, Specchia V, Fanti L, Berloco M, D'Alessandro R, Pimpinelli S, Palumbo G, Bozzetti MP.: Structure, regulation and evolution of the crystal-Stellate system of Drosophila. Genetica 17: 247-57 (2003)
C.T. Storlazzi, F. Mertens, A.Nascimento, M. Isaksson, J. Wejde, O. Brosjö, N. Mandahl, I. Panagopoulos: Fusion of the FUS and BBF2H7 genes in low grade fibromyxoid sarcoma. Hum. Mol. Genet. 12: 2349-2358 (2003)
M.C. Miccoli, R. Antonacci, G. Vaccarelli, C. Lanave, S. Massari, E.P. Cribiu, S. Ciccarese: Evolution of TRG clusters in cattle and sheep genomes as drawn from the structural analysis of the ovine TRG2@ locus. Journal of Molecular Evolution 57:52-62 (2003)
M.Ventura, J.M.Mudge, V.Palumbo, S.Burn, E.Blennow, M.Pierluigi, O.Zuffardi, N.Archidiacono, M.S.Jackson, M.Rocchi: Neocentromeres in 15q24-26 map to duplicons which flanked an ancestral centromere in 15q25. Genome Res. 13:2059–2068 (2003)
Specchia, G., Albano, F., Storlazzi, C. T., Anelli, L., Zagaria, A. Liso, V., Rocchi, M.: t(15;17) in acute promyelocytic leukemia is not associated with submicroscopic deletions on der(17). Haematologica 87:775-777 (2003)
D.P.Locke, N.Archidiacono, D.Misceo, M.Rocchi, and E.E.Eichler: Refinement of a Chimpanzee Pericentric Inversion Breakpoint to a Site of Segmental Duplication. Genome Biol. 4(8):R50 (2003)
Horvath JE, Gulden CL, Bailey JA, Yohn C, McPherson JD, Prescott A, Roe BA, De Jong PJ, Ventura M, Misceo D, Archidiacono N, Zhao S, Schwartz S, Rocchi M, Eichler EE. Using a Pericentromeric Interspersed Repeat to Recapitulate the Phylogeny and Expansion of Human Centromeric Segmental Duplications. Mol. Biol. & Evol. 20:1463-1479 (2003)
V. Eder, M.Ventura, M.Ianigro, M.Teti, M.Rocchi, N.Archidiacono: Chromosome 6 phylogeny in primates and centromere repositioning. Mol. Biol. & Evol. 20:1506-1512 (2003)
M.-E.Brun, M.Ruault, M.Ventura, G.Roizes, A.De Sario: Juxtacentromeric region of human chromosome 21: a boundary between centromeric heterochromatin and euchromatic chromosome arms. Gene 312:41-50
D.Misceo, M.Ventura, V.Eder, M.Rocchi, and N.Archidiacono: Human chromosome 16 conservation in primates. Chromosome Res. 11:323-326 (2003)
M.Sardiello, G.Tripoli, M.Oliva, F.Santolamazza, R.Moschetti, P.Barsanti, C.Lanave, R.Caizzi and C.Caggese. A comparative study of the porin genes encoding VDAC, a voltage-dependent anion channel protein, in Anopheles gambiae and Drosophila melanogaster. Gene 31:322-324 (2003)
Marsano RM, Milano R, Minervini C, Moschetti R, Caggese C, Barsanti P, Caizzi R. Organization and possible origin of the Bari-1 cluster in the heterochromatic h39 region of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetica 117(2-3):281-9 (2003)
Marsano RM, Moschetti R, Barsanti P, Caggese C, Caizzi R. A survey of the DNA sequences surrounding the Bari1 repeats in the pericentromeric h39 region of Drosophila melanogaster. Gene. 307:167-74 (2003)
Storlazzi CT, Mertens F, Domanski H, Fletcher CD, Wiegant J, Mandahl N. Ring chromosomes and low-grade gene amplification in an atypical lipomatous tumor with minimal nuclear atypia. Int J Oncol. 23:67-71 (2003)
S.Fabris, C.T.Storlazzi, L.Baldini, L.Nobili, L.Lombardi, A.T.Maiolo, M.Rocchi, A.Neri. Heterogeneous pattern of chromosomal breakpoints involving the MYC locus in multiple myeloma. Genes Chrom. Cancer 37:261-269 (2003)
M.Ruault, M.Ventura, N.Galtier M.-E. Brun, N.Archidiacono, G.Roizès, A.De Sario: BAGE genes generated by juxtacentromeric reshuffling in the Hominidae lineage are under selective pressure. Genomics 81:391-399 (2003)
Specchia G, Albano F, Anelli L, Storlazzi CT, Zagaria A, Mancini M, Cuneo A, Pane F, Foa R, Manolelli F, Liso V, Rocchi M. Deletions on der(9) chromosome in adult Ph-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia occur with a frequency similar to that observed in chronic myeloid leukemia. Leukemia. 2003 Mar;17(3):528-31.
Storlazzi CT, Mertens F, Mandahl N, Gisselsson D, Isaksson M, Gustafson P, Domanski HA, Panagopoulos I. A novel fusion gene, SS18L1/SSX1, in synovial sarcoma. Genes Chromosomes Cancer. 2003 Jun;37(2):195-200.
L.D'Aiuto, P. Barsanti, I. Cserpan, G. Minardi, S. Ciccarese : A patchwork interspersed sequence is present in a high copy number in the sheep genome. Gene 303:69-76 (2003)
D.P. Locke, R Segraves, LCarbone, N. Archidiacono, D.G. Albertson, D.Pinkel, and E.E. Eichler: Large-Scale Variation Among Human and Great Ape Genomes Determined by Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization. Genome Res. 2003 13: 341-346 (2003)
F.Albano, G.Specchia, L.Anelli, A.Zagaria, C.T.Storlazzi, C.Buquicchio, M.G.Roberti, V.Liso and M.Rocchi: Genomic deletions on the third chromosome involved in variant t(9;22) chronic myeloid leukemia cases. Genes Chrom Cancer 36:353–360 (2003)
FPG Silva, B Morolli, CT Storlazzi, L Anelli, H Wessels, V Bezrookove, HC Kluin-Nelemans, and M Giphart-Gassler: Identication of RUNX1/AML1 as a classical tumor suppressor gene. Oncogene 22:538-47 (2003)
F.J.Charchar, M.Svartman., N.El-Mogharbel., M.Ventura, P.Kirby, M.R.Matarazzo, A.Ciccodicola, M.Rocchi , M.D’Esposito, J.A.M.Graves: Complex events in the evolution of the human pseudoautosomal region 2 (PAR2). Genome Research 13: 281-286 (2003)
M.Kayser, S.Brauer, G.Weiss, W. Schiefenho, P.Underhill, P.Shen, P.Oefner, M.Tommaseo-Ponzetta,and M.Stoneking: Reduced Y-Chromosome, but Not Mitochondrial DNA, Diversity in Human Populations from West New Guinea. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 72:281–302, 2003
Sardiello M, Licciulli F, Catalano D, Attimonelli M, Caggese C. MitoDrome: a database of Drosophila melanogaster nuclear genes encoding proteins targeted to the mitochondrion. Nucleic Acids Res. Jan 1;31:322-324 (2003)
2002 ( top )
Bartoleschi C, Pardini MC, Scaringi C, Martino MC, Pazzani C, Bernardini ML.: Selection of Shigella flexneri candidate virulence genes specifically induced in bacteria resident in host cell cytoplasm. Cell Microbiol. 4: 613-26 (2002)
Storlazzi CT, Anelli L, Surace C, Rocchi M, Albano F, Pastore D, Liso V, Specchia G: Molecular cytogenetic characterization of a novel additional chromosomal aberration in blast crisis of a Ph-positive chronic myeloid leukemia. Cancer Genet Cytog. 134:109-13 (2002)
M.F.Cardone, M.Ventura, S.Tempesta, M.Rocchi, and N.Archidiacono: Analysis of chromosome conservation in Lemur catta studied by WCPs and BAC/PAC probes. Chromosoma 111:348-56 (2002)
L.Carbone, M.Ventura, S.Tempesta, M.Rocchi, N.Archidiacono: Evolutionary history of phylogenetic chromosome 10 in primates. Chromosoma 111: 236-255 (2002)
Boniotto M, Ventura M, Cardone MF, Boaretto F, Archidiacono N, Rocchi M, Crovella S: Localization of a new highly repeated DNA sequence of Lemur cafta (Lemuridae, Strepsirhini). Genome 45:973-6 (2002)
Ballarati L, Piccini I, Carbone L, Archidiacono N, Rollier A, Marozzi A, Meneveri R, Ginelli E.: Human genome dispersal and evolution of 4q35 duplications and interspersed LSau repeats. Gene 296(1-2):21(2002)
G.Specchia F.Albano, L.Anelli, CT.Storlazzi, A.Zagaria, M.Mancini, A.Cuneo, F.Pane, R.Foa’, V.Liso, M.Rocchi: Deletions on der(9) chromosome in adult ph-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia occur with a frequency similar to that observed in chronic myeloid leukemia. Br J Haematol 119:488-491 (2002)
M.Belloni, P.Tritto, M.P.Bozzetti , G.Palumbo and L.G.Robbins. Does Stellate cause meiotic drive in Drosophila melanogaster? Genetics, 161:155-159 (2002)
C.T.Storlazzi, G.Specchia, L.Anelli, F.Albano, D.Pastore, M.Rocchi, and V.Liso: Breakpoint Characterization of der(9) deletions in CML patients. Genes Chrom Cancer 35:271-276 (2002)
Storlazzi CT, Anelli L, Surace C, Lonoce A, Zagaria A, Nanni M, Curzi P, Rocchi M.: Molecular cytogenetic characterization of a complex rearrangement involving chromosomes 9 and 22 in a case of Ph-negative chronic myeloid leukemia. Cancer Genet Cytogenet.136:141-145 (2002)
M.Oliva, V. De Pinto, P. Barsanti and C. Caggese (2002). A Genetic Analysis of the porin Gene Encoding a Voltage-dependent Anion Channel Protein in Drosophila melanogaster. Mol Genet Genomics 267:746-756.
G.Saglio, C.T. Storlazzi, E.Giugliano, C.Surace, L.Anelli, G.Rege-Cambrin, A.Zagaria, A.Jimenez Velasco, A.Heiniger, P.Scaravaglio, A.Torres Gomez, J.Roman Gomez, N.Archidiacono, S.Banfi, M.Rocchi: A 76kb interchromosomal duplicon maps close to BCR gene on chromosome 22 and to ABL gene on chromosome 9: possible involvement in the genesis of the Philadelphia-chromosome translocation. P.N.A.S. 99:9882-9887 (2002)
G.Specchia, F.Albano, L.Anelli, C.T.Storlazzi, G.Cimino, A.Liso, A.Zagaria, V.Liso, M.Rocchi: Molecular cytogenetics characterization of a novel translocation involving chromosomes 17 and 19 in a Ph+ adult acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. British J. Haemat. 87:775-7 (2002)
S.Giglio, V.Calvari, G.Gregato, G.Gimelli, S.Camanini, R.Giorda, A.Ragusa, S.Guerneri, A.Selicorni, M.Stumm, H.Tonnies, M.Ventura, M.Zollino, G.Neri, J.Barber, D.Wieczorek, M.Rocchi, O.Zuffardii: Heterozygous submicroscopic inversions involving olfactory receptor-gene clusters mediate the recurrent t(4;8)(p16;p23) translocation. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 71:276-285 (2002)
G.Specchia, F.Albano, C.T. Storlazzi, L.Anelli, A.Zagaria, V.Liso, M. Rocchi. t(15;17) in acute promyelocytic leukemia is not associated with submicroscopic deletions on der(17). Haematologica 87:775-7 (2002)
Saccone C, Gissi C, Reyes A, Larizza A, Sbisa E, Pesole G.: Mitochondrial DNA in metazoa: degree of freedom in a frozen event. Gene. 286:3-12 (2002)
Sainati L, Leszl A, Surace C, Perilongo G, Rocchi M, Basso G. Fluorescence in situ hybridization improves cytogenetic results in the analysis of hepatoblastoma. Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 134:18-20 (2002)
Pellegrini S, Censini S, Guidotti S, Iacopetti P, Rocchi M, Bianchi M, Covacci A, Gabrielli F.: A human short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase gene: structure, chromosomal localization, tissue expression and subcellular localization of its product. Biochim Biophys Acta.1574:215-22 (2002)
C.T.Storlazzi, G.Specchia, L.Anelli, F.Albano, D.Pastore, M.Rocchi, and V.Liso: Breakpoint Characterization of der(9) deletions in CML patients. Genes Chrom Cancer 134: 109-113 (2002)
Denegri M, Moralli D, Rocchi M, Biggiogera M, Raimondi E, Cobianchi F, De Carli L, Riva S, Biamonti G.: Human chromosomes 9, 12, and 15 contain the nucleation sites of stress-induced nuclear bodies.Mol Biol Cell. 13: 2069-79 (2002)
C.T.Storlazzi, L.Anelli, C.Surace, A. Lonoce, A.Zagaria , M.Nanni, P.Curzi, M.Rocchi: Molecular Cytogenetic Characterization of a Complex Rearrangement Involving Chromosomes 9 and 22 in a Case of Ph Negative Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. Cancer Genet Cytog. 134: 109-113 (2002)
Meloni, I.; Vitelli, F.; Pucci, L.; Lowry, R. B.; Tonlorenzi, R.; Rossi, E.; Ventura, M.; Rizzoni, G.; Kashtan, C. E.; Pober, B., and Renieri, A.: Alport syndrome and mental retardation: clinical and genetic dissection of the contiguous gene deletion syndrome in Xq22.3 (ATS-MR). J Med Genet. 39:359-365 (2002)
M.Ruault, M.E.Brun, M.Ventura, G,Roizès, and A.De Sario: MLL3, a new human member of the TRX/MLL gene family, maps to 7q36, a chromosome region frequently deleted in myeloid leukemia. Gene. 284:73-81 (2002)
Specchia G, Albano F, Anelli L, Storlazzi CT, Monaco M, Capalbo S, Rocchi M, Liso V.: Concomitant tetrasomy 3q and trisomy 18 in CD5(-), CD13(+) chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 133:160-3 (2002)
Attimonelli M, Catalano D, Gissi C, Grillo G, Licciulli F, Liuni S, Santamaria M, Pesole G, Saccone C. MitoNuc: a database of nuclear genes coding for mitochondrial proteins. Update 2002. Nucleic Acids Res. 30172-3 (2002)
Pesole G, Liuni S, Grillo G, Licciulli F, Mignone F, Gissi C, Saccone C. UTRdb and UTRsite: specialized databases of sequences and functional elements of 5' and 3' untranslated regions of eukaryotic mRNAs. Update 2002. Nucleic Acids Res. 30:335-40 (2002)
Larizza A, Pesole G, Reyes A, Sbisa E, Saccone C. Lineage Specificity of the Evolutionary Dynamics of the mtDNA D-Loop Region in Rodents. J Mol Evol. 145-55 (2002)
Tommaseo-Ponzetta M., Attimonelli M., De Robertis M., Tanzariello F., Saccone C. Mitochondrial DNA variability of West New Guinea populations. Am J Phys Anthropol. 117(1): 49-67 (2002).
Lanave C., Licciulli F., De Robertis M., Marolla A., Attimonelli M. Update of AMmtDB: a database of multi-aligned Metazoa mitochondrial DNA sequences. Nucleic Acids Res. 30(1):174-175(2002).
Tommaseo-Ponzetta M., De Robertis M., Tanzariello F., Attimonelli M. and C.Saccone. Morphological and molecular variability in West New Guinea pygmoid groups. Rivista di Antropologia suppl. vol.78: 253-260 (2000)
M. Crosier, L. Viggiano , J. Guy, D. Misceo1, R. Stones, T. Hearn, M. Ventura, N. Archidiacono, M. Rocchi, and M. S. Jackson: Human paralogues of KIAA0187 were created through independent pericentromeric-directed and chromosome-specific duplication mechanisms. Genome Res. 12: 67-80 (2002)
J.A.Bailey, A.M.Yavor, L.Viggiano, D.Misceo, J.E.Horvath, N.Archidiacono, S.Schwartz, M.Rocchi and E.E.Eichler: Recent Paralogous Structure of Human Chromosome 22. Am. J. Hum. Genet. 70:83-100 (2002)
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Di Pierro M, Lu R, Uzzau S, Wang W, Margaretten K, Pazzani C, Maimone F, Fasano A.: Zonula occludens toxin structure-function analysis. Identification of the fragment biologically active on tight junctions and of the zonulin receptor binding domain. J Biol Chem. 276:19160-5 (2001)
Eichler EE, Johnson ME, Alkan C, Tuzun E, Sahinalp C, Misceo D, Archidiacono N, Rocchi M.: Divergent Origins and Concerted Expansion of Two Segmental Duplications on Chromosome 16. J Hered. 92:462-468 (2001)
M.Rosati, M.Rocchi, C.T,Storlazzi, and G.Grimaldi: Gene organization, splicing and mapping to chromosome 12q24.33 of the human ZNF84 KRAB/FPB containing zinc finger gene. Cytog. cell Genet. 94:127-130 (2001)
A.Ratti, F.Amati, M.Bozzali, E.Conti, F.Sangiuolo, M.Berloco, G. Palumbo, A.Botta, A.Pizzuti, G.Novelli, B.Dallapiccola. Characterisation, positioning and expression of the Drosophila orthologol of the Ubiquitin Fusion Degradation 1 (Ufd1) gene. Cytogenet Cell Genet. 2001;92(3-4):279-82
F.Gianfrancesco, R.Sanges, T.Esposito, S.Tempesta , E.Rao, G.Rappold, N.Archidiacono, Jennifer A.M. Graves4, Antonino Forabosco and Michele D'Urso. Differential divergence of three human pseudoautosomal genes and their mouse homologues: implications for sex chromosome evolution. Genome Res. 11:2095-2100 (2001)
M.Ventura, M.Boniotto, M.F.Cardone, L.Fulizio, N.Archidiacono, M.Rocchi, S.Crovella: Characterization of a highly repeated DNA sequence family in five species of the genus Eulemur. Gene 275:305-310 (2001)
M.E. Johnson, L.Viggiano, J.A. Bailey, M.Abdul-Rauf, G. Goodwin, M.Rocchi, E.E. Eichler: Positive selection of a gene family during the emergence of humans and African apes. Nature 413: 514-519 (2001)
L.Crisponi, M.Deiana, A.Loi, F.Chiappe, M.Uda, P.Amati, L.Bisceglia, L.Zelante, R.Nagaraja, S.Porcu, M.S.Ristaldi, R.Marzella, M.Rocchi, M.Nicolino, A.Lienhardt-Roussie, ANivelon, A.Verloes, D.Schlessinger, P.Gasparini, D.Bonneau, A.Cao, and G.Pilia. The putative forkhead transcription factor FOXL2 is mutated in blepharophimosis/ptosis/epicanthus inversus syndrome. Nat. Genet. 27: 159-166 (2001).
De Benedictis L, Polizzi A, Cangiano G, Buttiglione M, Arbia S, T. Storlazzi C, Rocchi M, Gennarini G.: Alternative promoters drive the expression of the gene encoding the mouse axonal glycoprotein F3/contactin. Brain Res Mol Brain Res. 95: 55-74 (2001)
M.Ventura, N.Archidiacono, M.Rocchi: Centromere emergence in evolution. Genome Research 11: 595-599 (2001)
C. Caggese, R. Moschetti, G. Ragone, P. Barsanti, R. Caizzi: dtctex-1, the Drosophila melanogaster homolog of a putative murine t-complex distorter encoding a dynein light chain, is required for production of functional sperm. Mol Genet Genomics 265: 436-444 (2001)
C.Alexander, S.L.Bernstein, M.Rocchi, GAuburger. Saturating Density of STSs (1/6 kb) in a 1.1 Mb Region on 3q28-q29: A Valuable Resource for Cloning of Disease Genes. Eur J Hum Genet 20307-310 (2001)
G.Specchia, A.Mestice, T.C.Storlazzi, L.Anelli, A.Pannunzio, M.G. Roberti, M.Rocchi, V.Liso: A novel translocation t(2;9)(q14;p12) in AML-M2 with an uncommon phenotype: myeloperoxidase-positive and myeloid antigen-negative. Leukemia Res. 25:501-507 (2001)
A.Nietzel, M.Rocchi, H.Starke, A.Heller, W.Fiedler, I.Wlodarska, I.F.Loncarevic, V.Beensen, U.Claussen, T.Liehr: A new multicolor-FISH approach for the characterization of marker chromosomes: centromere-specific multicolor-FISH (cenM-FISH). Hum. Genet. 108:199-204 (2001)
G.Specchia, C.T.Storlazzi, A.Cuneo, C.Surace, A.Mestice, A.Pannunzio, M.Rocchi, V.Liso: Acute promyelocytic leukemia with additional chromosome abnormalities in a renal transplant case. Ann. of Hemat. 80:246-250 (2001)
V.Iacobazzi, M.Ventura, G.Fiermonte, G.Prezioso, M.Rocchi and F.Palmieri: Genomic organization and mapping of the gene encoding the human deoxynucleotide carrier (DNC). Cytog. Cell Genet. 93:40-42 (2001)
Langer S, Fauth C, Rocchi M, Murken J, and Speicher MR. AcroM fluorescent in situ hybridization analyses of marker chromosomes. Hum Genet. 109:152-8 (2001)
Fiermonte G, Dolce V, Palmieri L, Ventura M, Runswick MJ, Palmieri F, Walker JE: Identification of the human mitochondrial oxodicarboxylate carrier: bacterial expression, reconstitution, functional characterization, tissue distribution and chromosomal location. J Biol Chem 16:8225-30 (2001) I.F. 7.368
S.Mumm, L.Herrera, P.W.Waeltz, A.Scardovi, R.Nagaraja, T.Esposito, M.T.Ross, D.Schlessinger, M.Rocchi, A.Forabosco: X/autosomal translocations in the Xq critical region associated with premature ovarian failure fall both within and outside genes. Genomics 1-3: 30-36 (2001)
E.Vitale,.C.Specchia, M.Devoto, A.Angius, S.Rong, M.Rocchi, M.Schwalb, L.Demelas, D.Paglietti, S.Manca, C.Mastropaolo, G.Serra: A novel X-linked mental retardation syndrome with short stature maps to Xq24. Am. J. Med. Genet. 103:1-8 (2001)
M.Ventura, M.Boniotto, M.F.Cardone, L.Fulizio, N.Archidiacono, M.Rocchi, S.Crovella: Characterization of a highly repeated DNA sequence family in five species of the genus Eulemur. Gene 275:305-310 (2001)
Miccoli M.C., Lipsi M.R., Massari S., Lanave C. and Ciccarese S. Exon-intron organisation of TRGC genes in sheep. Immunogenetics 53:416-422 (2001)
