in press

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)

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)

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.

D'Elia D, Catalano D, Licciulli F, Turi A, Tripoli G, Porcelli D, Saccone C, Caggese C. The MitoDrome database annotates and compares the OXPHOS nuclear genes of Drosophila melanogaster, Drosophila pseudoobscura and Anopheles gambiae. Mitochondrion. 2006 Oct;6(5):252-257.

D'Erchia AM, Tullo A, Lefkimmiatis K, Saccone C, Sbisa E. The fatty acid synthase gene is a conserved p53 family target from worm to human. Cell Cycle. 2006 Apr;5(7):750-8.

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)

Sbisa E, Mastropasqua G, Lefkimmiatis K, Caratozzolo MF, D'Erchia AM, Tullo A. Connecting p63 to cellular proliferation: the example of the adenosine deaminase target gene. Cell Cycle. 2006 Jan;5(2):205-12

Rocchi M. and Archidiacono N.: Comparison with primate genomes. In “Encyclopedia of Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics”, pp. 153-154. P Stankiewicz and JR Lupski Editors, Humana Press (2006)

Rocchi M. and Archidiacono N.: Genome Plasticity in Evolution. In “Genomic Disorders: The Genomic Basis of Disease”, pp. 153-165. P Stankiewicz and JR Lupski Editors, Humana Press (2006) ISBN 1-58829-559-1

Rocchi M, Archidiacono N, Stanyon R: Ancestral genomes reconstruction: an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach is needed. Genome Res 16:1566-1574 (2006).

Rossi F, Moschetti R, Caizzi R, Corradini N, Dimitri P. Cytogenetic and molecular characterization of heterochromatin gene models in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 2006 Nov 16

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 C, Albano F, Loconsulo C, Lonoce A, Funes S, Guastadisegni MC, Cimaroso L, Impera L, Panagopoulos I, Specchia C, Rocchi M: t(3;12)(q26;q14) in Polycythemia vera is associated with upregulation of the HMGA2 gene. Leukemia 20:2190-2192 (2006).

Storlazzi CT, Brekke HR, Mandahl N, Brosjo O, Smeland S, Lothe RA, Mertens F. Identification of a novel amplicon at distal 17q containing the BIRC5/SURVIVIN gene in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumours. J Pathol. 2006 Aug;209(4):492-500.

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 57:254-66 (2005).

Catapano D, Muscarella LA, Guarnieri V, Zelante L, D'Angelo VA, D'Agruma L: Hemangioblastomas of central nervous system: molecular genetic analysis and clinical management. Neurosurgery 56:1215-21; discussion 1221 (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)

D'Amelio M, Ricci I, Sacco R, Liu X, D'Agruma L, Muscarella LA, Guarnieri V, Militerni R, Bravaccio C, Elia M, Schneider C, Melmed R, Trillo S, Pascucci T, Puglisi-Allegra S, Reichelt KL, Macciardi F, Holden JJ, Persico AM: Paraoxonase gene variants are associated with autism in North America, but not in Italy: possible regional specificity in gene-environment interactions. Mol Psychiatry 10:1006-16 (2005).

De Grassi A, Caggese C, D'Elia D, Lanave C, Pesole G, Saccone C: Evolution of nuclearly encoded mitochondrial genes in Metazoa. Gene (2005).

De Gregori M, Pramparo T, Memo L, Gimelli G, Messa J, Rocchi M, Patricelli MG, Ciccone R, Giorda R, Zuffardi O: Direct duplication 12p11.21-p13.31 mediated by segmental duplications: a new recurrent rearrangement? Hum Genet 18:207-213 (2005).

Horvath JE, Gulden CL, Vallente RU, Eichler MY, Ventura M, McPherson, JD, Graves T, Wilson R, Schwartz S, Rocchi M, and Eichler EE: Punctuated duplication seeding events during the evolution of human chromosome 2p11. Genome Res 15:914-927 (2005)

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).

Mignone F, Grillo G, Licciulli F, Iacono M, Liuni S, Kersey PJ, Duarte J, Saccone C, Pesole G. UTRdb and UTRsite: a collection of sequences and regulatory motifs of the untranslated regions of eukaryotic mRNAs. Nucleic Acids Res. 33 Database Issue:D141-6 (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 102:10563-10568 (2005)

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. Genome Res. 14:789-801 (2004).

Conciatori M, Stodgell CJ, Hyman SL, O'Bara M, Militerni R, Bravaccio C, Trillo S, Montecchi F, Schneider C, Melmed R, Elia M, Crawford L, Spence SJ, Muscarella L, Guarnieri V, D'Agruma L, Quattrone A, Zelante L, Rabinowitz D, Pascucci T, Puglisi-Allegra S, Reichelt KL, Rodier PM, Persico AM: Association between the HOXA1 A218G polymorphism and increased head circumference in patients with autism. Biol Psychiatry 55:413-9 (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).

D'Errico I, Gadaleta G, Saccone C: Pseudogenes in metazoa: origin and features. Brief Funct Genomic Proteomic 3:157-67 (2004).

de Pinto, B., Lippolis, R., Castaldo, R. e Altamura N. Over-expression of Upf1p compensates for mitochondrial splicing deficiency independently of its role in mRNA surveillance. Mol. Microbiol. (2004) 51:1129-42.

Gisel A, Panetta M, Grillo G, Licciulli VF, Liuni S, Saccone C, Pesole G: DNAfan: a software tool for automated extraction and analysis of user-defined sequence regions. Bioinformatics 20:3676-9 (2004).

Lanave C, Santamaria M, Saccone C: Comparative genomics: the evolutionary history of the Bcl-2 family. Gene 333:71-9 (2004).

Hamel P., Saint-Georges Y., de Pinto B., Lachacinski N., Altamura N. and Dujardin G. (2003). Redundancy in the function of mitochondrial phosphatetransport in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Arabidopsis thaliana". Mol. Microbiol.51:307-17 (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 14:1704-1710 (2004).

Reyes A, Gissi C, Catzeflis F, Nevo E, Pesole G, Saccone C: Congruent mammalian trees from mitochondrial and nuclear genes using Bayesian methods. Mol Biol Evol 21:397-403 (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).

Persico AM, D'Agruma L, Zelante L, Militerni R, Bravaccio C, Schneider C, Melmed R, Trillo S, Montecchi F, Elia M, Palermo M, Rabinowitz D, Pascucci T, Puglisi-Allegra S, Reichelt KL, Muscarella L, Guarnieri V, Melgari JM, Conciatori M, Keller F: Enhanced APOE2 transmission rates in families with autistic probands. Psychiatr Genet 14:73-82 (2004).

Santamaria M, Lanave C, Saccone C: The evolution of the adenine nucleotide translocase family. Gene 333:51-9 (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 430:857-864 (2004).

Scillitani A, Guarnieri V, De Geronimo S, Muscarella LA, Battista C, D'Agruma L, Bertoldo F, Florio C, Minisola S, Hendy GN, Cole DE: Blood ionized calcium is associated with clustered polymorphisms in the carboxyl-terminal tail of the calcium-sensing receptor. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 89:5634-8 (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., I. Panagopoulos, E. Palsson, M. Rocchi, N. Mandahl, and F. Mertens. 2004. A novel FISH assay for SS18-SSX fusion type in synovial sarcoma. Lab Invest 84: 1185-1192.

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, Björck E, de Jong P, She X, Eichler EE, Archidiacono N, Rocchi M: Recurrent sites for new centromere seeding. Genome Res 14:1696-1703 (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)

Tullo A, Mastropasqua G, Bourdon JC, Centonze P, Gostissa M, Costanzo A, Levrero M, Sal GD, Saccone C, Sbisa E. Adenosine deaminase, a key enzyme in DNA precursors control, is a new p73 target. Oncogene. 22: 8738-48 (2003).

Guy J, Hearn T, Crosier M, Mudge J, Viggiano L, Koczan D, Thiesen HJ, Bailey JA, Horvath JE, Eichler EE, Earthrowl ME, Deloukas P, French L, Rogers J, Bentley D, Jackson MS. Genomic sequence and transcriptional profile of the boundary between pericentromeric satellites and genes on human chromosome arm 10p. Genome Res. 13:159-72 (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)

Lanzinger M., Tommaseo-Ponzetta M. Il più antico popolamento della Valsugana. In: Proceedings del convegno “L’ultima Valle asciugata”. Castel Ivano, Trento, pp.30-40 (2003)

Kayser M., Brauer S., Weiss G., Schiefenhövel W., Underhill P., Shen P., Oefner P., Tommaseo-Ponzetta M., Stoneking M., 2003. Reduced Y-Chromosome, but Not Mitochondrial DNA, Diversity in Human Populations from West New Guinea. Am.J.Hum.Genetics., 72: 281-302. (I.F.10,542)

Tommaseo Ponzetta M., 2003. Rôle alimentaire des insectes dans l'evolution humaine. In : E.Motte-Florac & J.M.C.Thomas, (eds), Les insectes dans la tradition orale, pp.1-17, Paris: Peeters-Selaf (Ethnosciences).

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)

Del Faro L, Antonacci R, Pagliarulo D, Caputi Jambrenghi A, Vonhia G, Massari S, Ciccarese S. (2003). Sheep TRD@ locus consists of a large number of TRDV elements. Italian Journal Of Animal Science. vol. 2, pp. 25-27 (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)

Vaccarelli G, Miccoli M.C, Giovinazzo M, Caputi Jambrenghi A, Cribiu E.P, Ciccarese S. Structural analysis of TRG1@ and TRG2@ loci of the ovine immune system. Italian Journal Of Animal Science. vol. 2 (Suppl. 1), pp. 49-51 (2003).

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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)

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)

Tommaseo Ponzetta M., De Robertis M., Tanzariello F., Attimonelli M., Saccone C. Mitochondrial DNA variability in West Papua populations. Am.J.Phys.Anthrop., 117(1): 49-67 (2002).

Tommaseo Ponzetta M. 2002. Popolamento e popoli dell’Indonesia occidentale. In:C.Chiarelli (a cura di) Catalogo della mostra “Modigliani, viaggi nell’Indonesia del XIX secolo”. Museo di Antropologia di Firenze. Pagliai Polistampa, pp. 201-204.

Corvasce A., Tommaseo Ponzetta M., 2002. Sviluppo morfo-funzionale di giovani liceali di Barletta. Società & Salute, 5:10; e 6:18-23.

2001 ( top )

Antonacci R, Massari S, De Iaco R, Ciccarese S. Assignment of the TRB@ locus encoding the T-cell receptor beta chain to sheep, cattle, goat and river buffalo chromosomes by in situ hybridization. Cytogenet Cell Genet. 94:82-3 (2001).

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)

Cerda H., Martinez R., Briceno N., Pizzoferrato L., Manzi P., Tommaseo Ponzetta M., Marin D., Paoletti M.G., 2001. Palm worm (Insecta, Coleoptera, Curculionidae; Rhynchophorus palmarum) traditional food in Amazonas, Venezuela: nutritional composition, small scale production and tourist palatability. Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 40 (1). 13-32.(I.F.0,222)

2000 ( top )

A.Ciccodicola, M.D'Esposito, T.Esposito, F.Gianfrancesco, C.Migliaccio, M.G. Miano, M.R.Matarazzo, M.Vacca, A.Franzè, M.Cuccurese, M.Cocchia, A.Curci, A.Terracciano, A.Torino, S.Cocchia, G.Mercadante, E.Pannone, N.Archidiacono, M.Rocchi, D.Schlessinger and M.D'Urso: Differentially regulated and evolved genes in the fully sequenced Xq pseudoautosomal region. Hum.Mol.Genet. 12:395-401 (2000)

J. E. Horvath, L.Viggiano, B.J. Loftus, M.D.Adams, N.Archidiacono, M.Rocchi, E.E. Eichler: Molecular structure and evolution of an alpha-satellite junction at 16p11. Hum. Mol. Gen. 9:113-123 (2000)

Muller S, Stanyon R, Finelli P, Archidiacono, N, & Wienberg J.: Molecular cytogenetic dissection of human chromosome 3 and 21 evolution. PNAS 97: 206-211 (2000)

A.Cabibbo, M.Pagani, M.Fabbri, M.Rocchi, M.Farmery, N.Bulleid and R.Sitia: ERO1-L: a Human Functional Homologue of S. cerevisiae Ero1p that Interacts with Protein Disulfide Isomerase in the Endoplasmic Reticulum of Mammalian Cells. J. Biol. Chem. 18:4827-4833 (2000)

Pesole G, Liuni S, Grillo G, Licciulli F, Larizza A, Makalowski W, Saccone C. UTRdb and UTRsite: specialized databases of sequences and functional elements of 5' and 3' untranslated regions of eukaryotic mRNAs. Nucleic Acids Res. 2000 28(1):193-6.

Attimonelli M, Altamura N, Benne R, Brennicke A, Cooper JM, D'Elia D, Montalvo A, Pinto B, De Robertis M, Golik P, Knoop V, Lanave C, Lazowska J, Licciulli F, Malladi BS, Memeo F, Monnerot M, Pasimeni R, Pilbout S, Schapira AH, Sloof P, Saccone C. MitBASE : a comprehensive and integrated mitochondrial DNA database. The present status. Nucleic Acids Res. 2000 28(1):148-52.

Marsano RM, Moschetti R, Caggese C, Lanave C, Barsanti P, Caizzi R. The complete Tirant transposable element in Drososphila melanogaster shows a structural relationship with retrovirus-like retrotransposons. Gene. 18;247(1-2):87-95 (2000)

Pesole G, Gissi C, Catalano D, Grillo G, Licciulli F, Liuni S, Attimonelli M, Saccone C. MitoNuc and MitoAln: two related databases of nuclear genes coding for mitochondrial proteins. Nucleic Acids Res. 2000 28(1):163-5.

R. Marzella, L. Viggiano, V. Miolla, C.T. Storlazzi, A.Ricco, E. Gentile, R. Roberto, A.Fratello, M. Mancini, N. Archidiacono, M. Rocchi: Molecular cytogenetic resources for chromosome 4 and comparative analysis of phylogenetic chromosome IV in great apes. Genomics 63:307-313 (2000)

G.Pruneri, Fabris S, Baldini L, Carboni N, Zagano S, Colombi MA, Ciceri G, Lombardi L Rocchi M, Buffa R, Maiolo AT, Neri A.: Immunohistochemical analysis of cyclin D1 shows deregulated expression in multiple myeloma with the t(11;14) and provides diagnostic marker. Am. J. of Pathol. 156:1505-1513 (2000).

F. Vitelli, I. Meloni, S. Fineschi, F. Favara, C. T. Storlazzi, M. Rocchi, A. Renieri: Identification and characterization of mouse orthologs of the AMMECR1 and FACL4 genes deleted in AMME syndrome: orthology of Xq22.3 and MmuXF1-F3. Cytog. Cell Genet. 88,259-263 (2000).

Reyes A, Gissi C, Pesole G, Catzeflis FM, Saccone C: Where Do Rodents Fit? Evidence from the Complete Mitochondrial Genome of Sciurus vulgaris. Mol Biol Evol. 2000 17:979-983.

Heller, A., Seidel, J., Hubler, A., Starke, H., Beensen, V., Senger, G., Rocchi, M., Wirth, J., Chudoba, I., Claussen, U., and Liehr, T.: Molecular cytogenetic characterisation of partial trisomy 9q in a case with pyloric stenosis and a review. J Med Genet, 37,529-532 (2000)

Bardoni, B., Giglio, S., Schenck, A., Rocchi, M., and Mandel, J.L.: Assignment of NUFIP1 (Nuclear FMRP Interacting Protein 1) gene to chromosome 13q14 and assignment of a pseudogene to chromosome 6q12. Cytogenet Cell Genet, 89,11-13 (2000)

Saccone C, Gissi C, Lanave C, Larizza A, Pesole G, Reyes A: Analysis of oligonucleotide AUG start codon context in eukariotic mRNAs. Gene 261:85-91 (2000)

Saccone C, Gissi C, Lanave C, Larizza A, Pesole G, Reyes A.: Evolution of the mitochondrial genetic system: an overview. Gene. 2000 261:153-9 (2000)

J. Guy, C. Spalluto, A. McMurray, T. Hearn, M. Crosier, L. Viggiano, V. Miolla, N. Archidiacono, M. Rocchi, C. Scott, P.A. Lee, J. Sulston, J. Rogers, D. Bentley and M. S. Jackson: Genomic sequence and transcriptional profile of the boundary between pericentromeric satellites and genes on human chromosome arm 10q. Hum. Mol. Genet. 9: 2029-2042 (2000)

C.T.Storlazzi, V.Liso, F.Albano, G.Castoldi, M.Rocchi, G.Specchia. Acute myeloblastic leukemia with minimal myeloid differentiation featuring a three-way translocation t(8;13;14). Haematologica 85,1099-1100 (2000)

Tullo A, D'Erchia AM, Honda K, Kelly MD, Habib NA, Saccone C, Sbisa E: New p53 mutations in hilar cholangiocarcinoma. Eur J Clin Invest 30:798-803 (2000 )

E.Hirsch, Wymann, M.P., Patrucco, E., Tolosano, E., Bulgarelli-Leva, G., Marengo, S., Rocchi, M., and Altruda, F.: Analysis of the murine phosphoinositide 3-kinase gamma gene. Gene, 256,69-81 (2000).

Gissi C, Reyes A, Pesole G, Saccone C.: Lineage-specific evolutionary rate in mammalian mtDNA. Mol Biol Evol 17:1022-31 (2000).

Massari S, Antonacci R, Lanave C, Ciccarese S.: Genomic organization of sheep TRDJ segments and their expression in the delta-chain repertoire in thymus. Immunogenetics 52:1-8. (2000)

Bassi, C., Magnani, I., Sacchi, N., Saccone, S., Ventura, M., Rocchi, M., Marozzi, A., Ginelli, E., and Meneveri, R. Molecular structure and evolution of DNA sequences located at the alpha satellite boundary of chromosome 20. Gene, 256,43-50 (2000).

Tommaseo Ponzetta M., Alciati G. Il Museo di Antropologia e Etnologia dell'Università di Padova: esperienze espositive e progetti. Museologia Scientifica, 16(1). Supplemento Atti XI Congresso A.N.M.S.. Napoli, 1996: 305-318 (2000).

Tommaseo Ponzetta M., De Robertis M., Tanzariello F., Attimonelli M., Saccone C. Morphological and molecular variability of West New Guinea pygmoid groups. Rivista di Antropologia, suppl. vol.78: 253-260 (2000).

1999 ( top ) 

Attimonelli M., Cooper J. M., D'elia D., De Montalvo A., De Robertis M., Lehvaslaiho H., Malladi S. B., Memeo F., Stevens K., Shapira A. H. V. and Saccone C.: Update of the Human mitBASE Database. Nucleic Acid Research, 1999, 27:143-146

Attimonelli M., Altamura N., Benne R., Boyen C., Brennicke A., Carone A., J. M. Cooper, D. D'elia, De Montalvo A., De Pinto B., M. De Robertis, Golik P., Grienberger J. M., Knoop V., Lanave C., Lazowska J., Lemagnen A., Malladi S. B., Memeo F., Monnerot M., Pilbout S., Shapira A. H. V., Sloof P., Slonimsky P., Stevens K. and Saccone C.: MitBASE: a comprehensive and integrated mithocondrial DNA Database. Nucleic Acid Research, 1999, 27:128-133

M.Brancaccio, S.Guazzone, N.Menini, E.Sibona, E.Hirsch, M.Rocchi, F.Altruda, G.Tarone and L.Silengo: Melusin: a new muscle-specific interactor for b1 integrin cytoplasmic domain. J. Biol. Chem. 274(41):29282-29288 (1999)

C. Caggese, G. Ragone, B. Perrini, R. Moschetti, V. De Pinto, R. Caizzi and P. Barsanti (1999). Identification of nuclear genes encoding mitochondrial proteins: isolation of a collection of D. melanogaster cDNAs homologous to sequences in the Human Gene Index database. Mol. Gen. Genet.261: 64-70.

Calabrese, G., Fischetto, R., Stuppia, L., Capodiferro, F., Mingarelli, R., Causio, F., Rocchi, M., Rappold, G. A., and Palka, G. (1999). X/Y translocation in a family with Leri-Weill dyschondrosteosis. Hum Genet 105, 367-8.

Calamita G, Spalluto C, Rocchi M, and Maria Svelto: Cloning, structural organization and chromosomal localization of the mouse Aquaporin-8 gene. Cytog. Cell Genet. 85:237-241 (1999)

Carone A., Malladi S. B., Attimonelli M. and Saccone C.: Vertebrate MitBASE: a specialized database on vertebrate mitochondrial DNA sequences. Nucleic Acid Research , 1999, 27

D'erchia A.M., Pesole G., Tullo A., Saccone C., and Sbisa' E.: Guinea Pig p53 mRNA: identification of New Elements in Coding and Untraslated Regions and Their Functional and Evolutionary Implications. Genomics, 1999, 58:50-64

E.E. Eichler, N.Archidiacono, M. Rocchi: Pericentromeric repeats and the pericentromeric duplication of the hominoid genome. Genome Res. 9:1048-1058 (1999).

A. Fogli, S. Giglio, Giulia Arrigo, C.Lo Nigro, M.Zollo, L.Viggiano, M.Rocchi, N.Archidiacono, O. Zuffardi, R. Carrozzo: Identification of two paralogous regions mapping to the short and long arms of human chromosome 2 comprising LIS1 pseudogenes Cytig. Cell Genet. 86:225-232 (1999)

Gobbo F., Tommaseo Ponzetta M., (a cura di). La quotidiana diversità. Imprimitur Ed., Padova, pp. 200 (1999).

Paoletti M.G., Tommaseo Ponzetta M., 1999. Biodiversità: risorsa strategica per uno sviluppo sostenibile. In: F. Gobbo, M. Tommaseo Ponzetta (a cura di). La quotidiana diversità. Imprimitur Ed., Padova, pp 159-182 (1999).

Jackson MS, Rocchi M, Thomson G, Hearn T, Crozier M, Guy J, Kirk D, Mulligan L, Ricco A, Marzella R, Viggiano and Archidiacono N: Sequences flanking the centromere of human chromosome 10 are a complex patchwork orf arm-specific sequences, stable duplications, and unstable sequences with homologies to telomeric and other centromeric locations. Hum. Mol. Genet. 8:205-215 (1999)

Kuangfei L., Yaling X.,  Xuefeng L., Zuoli W., Bukkens G.F. S., Tommaseo Ponzetta M., Paoletti M.G. Metallic elements in hair as biomarker of human exposure to environmental pollution: A preliminar investigation in Hubei Province. Critical Review in Plant Science, s.i., 18 (3): 417-428 (1999).

Lanave C., Attimonelli M., De Robertis M., Licciulli F., Liuni S., Sbisa' E. and Saccone C.: Update of AMmmtDB: A Database of Multi-Aligned Metazoa Mitochondrial DNA Sequences. Nucleic Acid Research, 1999, 27:134-137

Larizza A, Pesole G., Saccone C. Systematic and evolutionary studies in mammals: the contribution of the mitochondrial genome. Ital. J. Zool., 1999, 66:233-238

A.W.I.Lo, G.C.-C. Liao, M.Rocchi, A.K.Choo: Extreme reduction of chromosome-specific a-satellite domain is unusually common in human chromosome 21. Genome Res. 9, 895-908 (1999)

M. Mariani, D. Baldessari, S. Francisconi, L. Viggiano, M. Rocchi, V. Zappavigna, N. Malgaretti, and G. G. Consalez: Two murine and human homologs of mab-21, a cell fate determination gene involved in C. elegans neural development Hum. Mol. Genet. 8:2397-2406 (1999).

A Messina, M Oliva, C Rosato, M Huizing, W Ruitenbeek, L P. van den Heuvel, M Forte, M Rocchi and V De Pinto: Mapping of HVDAC1 and 2 reconsidered. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Comm. 255:707-710 (1999)

G. Montefalcone, S. Tempesta, M. Rocchi and N.Archidiacono: Centromere repositioning. Genome Res. 9: 1184-1188 (1999)

E Montini, G Buchner, C Spalluto, G Andolfi, A Caruso, JT den Dunnen, D Trump, M Rocchi, A Ballabio, B Franco: Identification of SCML2, a second human gene homologous to the Drosophila Sex comb on midleg (Scm): a new gene cluster in Xp22. Genomics 58:65-72 (1999)

R Morello, LTonachini, M Monticone, L Viggiano, M Rocchi, R Cancedda and P Castagnola: cDNA cioning, characterization and chromosome mapping of Crtap encoding the mouse Cartilage Associated Protein. Matrix Biol. 18:319-324

Nieddu M, Rossino R,Pichiri G, Rocchi M, Setzu MD, Mezzanotte R: The efficiency of in situ hybridization of human chromosomes with alphoid DNAs is enhanced by previous digestion with AluI and TaqI. Chrom. Res. 7: 593-602 (1999)

Pesole G., Liuni S., Grillo G., Ippedico M., Larizza A., Makalowski W. and Saccone C. : UTRdb: a specialized Database of 5' and 3' untraslated regions of eukaryotic mRNAs. Nucleic Acid Research, 1999, 27:188-191

Pesole G., Gissi C., De Chirico A. and Saccone C.: Nucleotide substitution rate of mammalian mitochondrial genomes.J. Mol. Evol., 1999, 48:427-434

Ragone G, R. Caizzi, R. Moschetti, P. Barsanti, V. DePinto, C. Caggese. The Drosophila melanogaster gene for the NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase acyl carrier protein: developmental expression analysis and evidence for alternatively spliced forms. Mol. Gen. Genetics Vol. 261: 690-697, 1999.

Rocchi, M., Gentile, E., Rosati, M., and Grimaldi, G. The human KRAB/FPB containing zinc finger gene ZNF2 maps to chromosome 2q11.2. Cytogenet Cell Genet 86:305-306 (1999)

Ronchetti D, Finelli P, Richelda R, Baldini L, Rocchi M, Viggiano L, Cuneo A, Bogni S, Fabris S, Lombardi L, Maiolo AT, and Neri A: Molecular analysis of 11q13 breakpoints in multiple myeloma. Blood 93:1330-1337 (1999)

Saccone C., De Giorgi C., Gissi C., Pesole G., Reyes A.: Evolutionary genomics in Metazoa: the mitochondrial DNA as a model system. Gene, 1999, 238:195-209.

G.Specchia, A.Cuneo, V.Liso, R.Contino, D.Pastore, E.Gentile, M.Rocchi, G.L.Castoldi: A novel translocation t(1;7)(p36;q34) in three patients with acute myeloid leukemia. Brit. J. Haemat. 105:208-214 (1999)

B. Scognamiglio, G. Baldassarre, C. Cassano, M. Tucci, N. Montuori, R. Dono, G. Lembo, A. Barra, C.T. Lago, G. Viglietto, M. Rocchi, and M.G. Persico: Assignment of human teratocarcinoma derived growth factor (TDGF) sequences to chromosomes 2q37, 3q22, 6p25 and 19q13.1. Cytog. Cell Genet. 84:220-224 (1999)

Tiranti, V., Lamantea, E., Uziel, G., Zeviani, M., Gasparini, P., Marzella, R., Rocchi, M., and Fried, M.: Leigh syndrome transmitted by uniparental disomy of chromosome 9. J Med Genet 36:927-8 (1999)

M.Vacca , Matarazzo, M.R., Jones, J., Spalluto, C., Archidiacono, N., Rocchi, M., D'Urso, M., Chen, E.Y., D'Esposito, M., and S. Mumm. Evolution of the X-specific block embedded in the human Xq21.3/Yp11.1 homology region. Genomics, 62, 293-296, (1999).

Vaccari, T., Moroni, A., Rocchi, M., Gorza, L., Bianchi, M. E., Beltrame, M., and DiFrancesco, D.: The human gene coding for HCN2, a pacemaker channel of the heart. Biochim Biophys Acta 1446, 419-25 (1999)

L. Viggiano, M. Rocchi, M. Svelto, and G. Calamita: Assignment of the Aquaporin-8 (hAQP8) water channel gene to human chromosome 16p12. Cytog. Cell Genet. 84:208-210 (1999)

L Viggiano,V Miolla, A Ricco, CT Storlazzi, M Pennacchia, A Fratello, M Mancini, R Marzella, N Archidiacono, M Rocchi : Molecular Cytogenetic Resources Specific For Chromosome 12. Am. J. Med. Genet. 87, 40-44 (1999)

Pesole G, Bernardi G, Saccone C. Isochore specificity of AUG initiator context of human genes. FEBS Lett. 1999 24;464(1-2):60-2.

Schmidt A, Palumbo G, Bozzetti MP, Tritto P, Pimpinelli S, Schafer U.: Genetic and molecular characterization of sting, a gene involved in crystal formation and meiotic drive in the male germ line of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 151:749-60 (1999)

1998 ( top ) 

Archidiacono A, Storlazzi CT, Spalluto C, Ricco AS, Marzella R, Rocchi M: Evolution of Chromosome Y in primates. Chromosoma 107:241-246 (1998)

Attimonelli M., Calo' D., Cooper J. M., De Montalvo A., Licciulli F., Sasanelli D., Stevens K., Malladi B. S., Saccone C. and Shapira A. H. V.: The mitBASE human dataset structure. Nucleic Acid Research, 1998, 26:116-119

Attimonelli M., Calo' D., Cooper J. M., De Montalvo A., Lanave C., Sasanelli D., Tommaseo Ponzetta M., and Saccone C. : Update of MmtDB: a Metazoa mitochondrial DNA variants database. Nucleic Acid Research, 1998, 26:120-125

Berthelsen J, Viggiano L, Schulz H, Ferretti E, Consalez GG, Rocchi M, and Blasi F: pKNOX1, encoding a new regulator of Pbx activity, maps on human chromosome 21q22.3 and murine chromosome 17. Genomics 47:323-324 (1998)

Bianco R, Moramarco G, Stella A, Ciampi MS. (1998) Relief of transcriptional polarity by a mutation that creates a promoter in the his G gene of Salmonella typhimurium LT2. Mol. Gen. Genet. 257:529-533

Calabrese G, Stuppia L, Morizio E, Guanciali Franchi P, Pompetti F, Mingarelli R, Tarsilio T, Rocchi M, Gallenga PE, Palka G, Dallapiccola B: Detection of an insertion deletion region 8q13-q21.2 in a patient with Duane syngrome: implication for mapping and cloning of a Duane gene. Eur. J. Hum. Genet. 6:187-193 (1998)

De Capoa A, Di Leandro M, Grappelli C, Menendez F, Poggesi I, Giancotti P, Marotta MR, Spano' A, Rocchi M, Archidiacono M, Niveleau A: Computer-assisted analysis of methylation status of individual interphase nuclei in human cultured cells. Cytometry 31:1-8 (1998)

D'Esposito M, Strazzullo M, Cuccurese M, Spalluto C, Rocchi M, D'Urso M, Ciccodicola A: Identification and assignment of the human transient receptor potential channel 6 gene TRPC6 to chromosome 11q21Æq22. Cytog. Cell Genet. 83:46-47 (1998)

Fiaschi T, Marzella R, Veggi D, R. Marzocchini R, Raugei G, Rocchi M, Ramponi G: Assignment of the Human Erythrocyte Acylphosphatase Gene (ACYPE-PEN) to Chromosome Band 14q24.3. Cytog. Cell Genet. 81:235-236 (1998)

Honda K., Sbisa' E., Tullo A., Papeo P. A., Saccone C., Poole S., Pignatelli M., Mitry R. R., Ding S., Isla A., Brancatisano R., Davies A., Habib N. A.: p53 mutations is a poor prognostic indicator for survival in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma undergoing surgical tumour ablation. British Journal of Cancer, 1998, 77:776-782

Massari S., Lipsi M.R., Vonghia G., Antonacci R., and Ciccarese S. T-cell receptor TCRG1 and TCRG2 clusters map separately in two different regions of sheep chromosome 4. Chromosome Research 6: 419-23 (1998)

Moschetti R, Caggese C, Barsanti P, Caizzi R: Intra- and interspecies variation among Bari-1 elements of the melanogaster species group. Genetics. 1998 150 :239-50.

M. Oliva, A. Messina , G. Ragone , C. Caggese and V. De Pinto (1998). Sequence and expression pattern of the Drosophila melanogaster mitochondrial porin gene: evidence of a conserved protein domain between fly and mouse. FEBS Lett. 430: 327-32.

Panarello C, Rosanda C, Morerio C, Russo I, Dallorso S, Gambini C, Ricco AS, Storlazzi CT, Archidiacono N, Mariano Rocchi: Lipoblastoma: a case with t(7;8)(q31)(q13). Cancer Genet. Cytog. 102:12-14 (1998 )

Pannone E, Fiermonte G, Dolce V, Rocchi M, and Palmieri F: The human dicarboxylate carrier gene (DIC) maps on chromosome 17, band 17q25.3 Cytog. Cell Genet. 83:238-9 (1998)

Pesole G., S. Liuni, G. Grillo and C. Saccone: UTRdb: a specialized database of 5'- and 3'-untraslated regions of eukaryotic mRNAs. Nucleic Acid Research, 1998, 26:192-195

Piccininni S, Iacobazzi V, Lauria G, Rocchi M, Palmieri F: Assignment of the oxoglutarate carrier (OGC) gene to human chromosome 17p13.3. Cytog. Cell Genet. 83:256-7 (1998)

Reyes A., Pesole G. And Saccone C.: Complete Mitochondrial DNA Sequence of the Fat Dormouse, Glis Glis:Further Evidence of Rodent Paraphyly. Mol. Biol. Evol., 1998, 15:499-505

Reyes A., Gissi C, Pesole G. and Saccone C.: Asymmetrical Directional Mutation Pressure in the Mitochondrial Genome of Mammals. Mol. Biol. Evol., 1998, 15:957-966

Sardella M, Navone F, Rocchi M, Rubartelli A, Viggiano L, Vignali G, Sitia R and Cabibbo A: Kif3C, KIF3C, a novel member of the kinesin superfamily: sequence, expression, and mapping to human chromosome 2 at 2p23. Genomics 47:405-408 (1998)

Strazzullo M, Parisi T, Di Cristofano A, Rocchi M and La Mantia G: Characterization and genomic mapping of chimeric ERV9 endogenous retroviruses-host gene transcripts. Gene 206:77-83 (1998)

Tiranti V, Carrozzo R, Galimberti C, Munaro M, Granatiero M, Zelante L, Gasparini P, Marzella R, Rocchi M, Enriquez A, Uziel G, Bertini E, Dionisi-Vici C, Zeviani M: Identification of a locus for Leigh disease associated with cytochrome c oxidase deficiency on the subtelomeric region of chromosome 9q. Am.J.Hum.Genet. 63:1609-1621 (1998).

Viggiano L, Marzella R, Ricco AS, Storlazzi TC, Fratello A, Varella-Garcia M, Archidiacono N, Rocchi M: A Panel of Partial Chromosome Paints and YAC probes Specific for Human Chromosome 2. Somat. Cell Mol. Genet. 24:13-21 (1998)

Zingoni A, Soto H, Hedrick J, Stoppacciaro A, Storlazzi CT, Sinigaglia F, D'Ambrosio D, O'Garra A, Robinson D, Rocchi M, Santoni A, Zlotnik A, and Napolitano M: The Chemokine Receptor CCR8 is Preferentially Expressed in T Helper 2 cells but not T Helper 1 cells. J. of Immunology 161:547-551 (1998)

1997 ( top )

C. Caggese, G. Ragone, P. Barsanti, R. Moschetti, A. Messina, S. Massari and R. Caizzi (1997). The S-Adenosyl-L-Homocysteine Hydrolase of Drosophila melanogaster: identification, deduced amino acid sequence and cytological localization of the structural gene. Mol. Gen. Genet. 253: 492-498.

Calo' D., De Pascali A., Sassanelli D., Tanzariello F., Tommaseo Ponzetta M., Saccone C. and Attimonelli M.: MmtDB: a Metazoa mitochondrial DNA variants database. N.A.R., 1997, 25:200-205

Canu N, Possenti R, Ricco AS, Rocchi M and Levi A: Cloning, structural organization analysis, and chromosomal assignment of the human gene for the neurosecretory protein VGF. Genomics 45:443-446 (1997)

Ciccarese S., Lanave C. and Saccone C. Evolution of T-cell receptors gamma and delta constant region and other T-cell related proteins in the human-rodent-artiodactyl triplet. Genetics 145: 409-419 (1997)

L.D'Aiuto, P.Barsanti, S.Mauro, I.Cserpan, C.Lanave & S.Ciccarese: Physical relationship between satellite I and II DNA in centromeric regions of sheep chromosomes. Chromosome Research 5, 375-3831(1997)

De Giorgi C., Martiradonna A., Pesole G. and Saccone C.: Lineage-Specific Evolution of Echinoderm Mitochondrial ATP Syntetase Subunit 8. Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes, 1997, 29: 233-239

D'Esposito M, M R. Matarazzo, Ciccodicola A, Strazzullo M, Mazzarella R, Quaderi NA, Fujiwara H, Ko MSH, Rowe LB, A. Ricco, Archidiacono N, Rocchi M, Schlessinger D, D'Urso M: Differential expression pattern of XqPAR-linked genes SYBL1 and IL9R correlates with the structure and evolution of the region. Hum. Mol. Genet. 6:1917-1923 (1997)

Eichler EE, Budarf M, Rocchi M, Deaven L, Doggett NA, Baldini A, Nelson DL, Mohrenweiser HW: Interchromosomal duplication of the adrenoleukodystrophy locus: a phenomenon of pericentric plasticity. Hum. Mol. Genet. 6: 991-1002 (1997)

Gadaleta G., D'elia D., Capaccio L., Saccone C. and Pepe G.: Isolation of a 25-kDa Protein Binding to a Curved DNA Upstream the Origin of the L. Strand Replication in the Rat Mitochondrial Genome. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1996, 271:13537-13541

Gianfrancesco F, Esposito T, Ruini L, Houlgatte R, Nagaraja R, D'Esposito M, Rocchi M, Auffray C, Schlessinger D, D'Urso M, Forabosco F: Mapping of 59 EST gene markers in 31 intervals spanning the human X chromosome. Gene 187:179-184 (1997)

Jolly C, Michelland S, Rocchi M, Robert-Nicoud M, and Vourc'h C: Analysis of the transcriptional activity of amplified genes in tumor cells by fluorescence in situ hybridization. Hum. Genet. 101:81-87 (1997)

Kehrer-Sawatzki H, Schwickardt T, Assum G, Rocchi M, Krone W: A third neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) pseudogene at chromosome 15q11.2. Hum.Genet. 100:595-600 (1997)

Lawn R., Patthy L., Pesole G. and Saccone C.: Apolipoprotein(a): A Puzzling Evolutionary Story. J. Mol. Evol. 1997, 44:234-236

Madsen O., Deen P. M. T., Pesole G., Saccone C. and De Jong W. W.: Molecular Evolution of Mammalian Aquaporin-2: Further Evidence that Elephant Shrew and Aardvark Join the aenungulate Clade. Mol. Biol. Evol., 1997, 14:363-371

Malaspina P, Ciminelle B, Viggiano L, Jodice C, Cruciani F, Santolamazza P, Sellitto D, Scozzari R, Terrenato L, Rocchi M, Novelletto A: Polymorphic X-Y homologous loci reveal a non-reduced mutability of the human Y chromosome. J. Mol. Evol. 44:652-659 (1997)

Marzella R, Viggiano L, Ricco A, Tanzariello A, Fratello A, Archidiacono N, Rocchi M: A panel of radiation hybrids and YAC clones specific for chromosome 5. Cytog. Cell Genet. 77:232-237 (1997)

Marzella R, Kokkinaki MA, Kapsetaki M, Ricco AS, Argyrokastritis A, Kamakari S, Sarafidou T, Archidiacono N, Roussou A, Pasparaki A, Rocchi M, Moschonas NK: Molecular and cytogenetic characterization of a panel of somatic cell hybrids and genomic clones specific for human chromosome 10. Cytog. Cell Genet. 79:257-265 (1997)

Massari S., Antonacci R., De Caro F., Lipsi M.R.,. and Ciccarese S.: Assignment of the TCRA/TCRD locus to sheep chromosome bands 7q1.4-q2.2 by fluorescence in situ hybridization Cytogenet Cell Genet 79: 193-195 (1997)

Muller S, Rocchi M, Ferguson-Smith MA, Wienberg J: Toward a multicolor chromosome bar code for the entire human karyotype by fluorescence in situ hybridization. Hum. Genet. 100:271-278 (1997)

Pesole G., Liuni S., Grillo G. and Saccone C.: Strctural and compositional features of untraslated regions of eukaryotic mRNAs. Gene, 1997, 205:95-102

Richelda R, Ronchetti D, Baldini L, Cro L, Viggiano L, Marzella R, Rocchi M, Otsuki T, Lombardi L, Maiolo AT, and Neri A: A novel chromosomal translocation t(4;14)(p16.3;q32) in multiple myeloma involves the fibroblast growth-factor receptor 3 gene. Blood 90:4062-4070 (1997)

Sbisa' E., Tanzariello F., Reyes A., Pesole G. and Saccone C.: Mammalian mitochondrial D-Loop region structural analyses: identification of new conserved sequences and their functional and evolutionary implications. Gene, 1997, 205:125-140

Tiranti V, Savoia A, Forti F, D'Apolito M-F, Centra M, Rocchi M, Zeviani M: Identification of the gene encoding the human mitochondrial RNA polymerase (H-MTRPOL) by cyberscreening of the expresssed sequence TAGs database. Hum Mol Genet 6:615-626 (1997)

Viggiano L, Caggese C, Barsanti P, Caizzi R: Cloning and characterization of a copy of Tirant transposable element in Drosophila melanogaster. Gene. 1997 Sep 15;197(1-2):29-35.

Viggiano L, Iacobazzi V, Marzella R, Cassano C, Rocchi M, Palmieri: Chromosomal localization of the human mitochondrial carnitine/acylcarnitine carrier (CAC) gene to 3p21.31. Cytog. Cell Genet. 79:62-63 (1997)

Zingoni A, Rocchi M, Storlazzi TC, Bernardini G, Santoni A, Napolitano M: Isolation and chromosomal localization of a human gene encoding a novel G-protein coupled receptor. Genomics 42:519-523 (1997)

Zelante L, Dallapiccola B, Calvano S, Memeo E, Gasparini P, Simi P, Rossi S, Finelli P, Rocchi M, Archidiacono N: Two mosaic-YY males carrying asymmetric Y chromosomes. Clin Genet 51:65-8 (1997)

1996 ( top ) 

Barbetti F, Rocchi M, Bossolasco M, Cordera R, Sbraccia P, Finelli P, Consalez GG: The human skeletal muscle glycogenin gene: cDNA, tissue expression, and chromosomal localization. Biochem Biophys Res Comm 220: 72-77 (1996)

De Giorgi C., Martiradonna A., Lanave C. and Saccone C.: Complete Sequence of the Mitochondrial DNA in the Sea Urchin Arbacia Lixula: Conserved Features of the Echinoid Mitochindrial Genome. Mol. Phyl. Evol., 1996, 5:323-332

De Giorgi C., Martiradonna A. and Saccone C.: Evolutionary analysis of sea urchin mitochondrial tRNAs: folding of the molecules as suggested by the non-random occurrence of nucleotides. Curr. Genet., 1996, 30:191-1996

D'erchia A. M., Gissi C., Pesole G., Saccone C., and Arnason U.: The guinea pig is not a rodent. Nature, 1996, 381:597-600

Ferrari S, Finelli P, Rocchi M, Bianchi ME: The active gene that encodes human high mobility group 1 protein contains introns and maps to chromosome 13. Genomics 35:367-371 (1996)

Finelli P, Antonacci R, Marzella R, Lonoce A, Archidiacono N and Rocchi M: Structural organization of multiple alphoid subsets coexisting on human chromosomes 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 15, 18, and 19. Genomics 38:325-330 (1996)

Jones A-M, Marzella R, Rocchi M, Hewitt JE: Mapping of the human ribosomal protein gene RPS24 to the chromosome 10q22-q23 boundary. Genomics 39:121-122 (1966)

Maraschio P, Tupler R, Rossi E, Barbierato L, Uccellatore F, Rocchi M, Zuffardi O and Fraccaro M. A novel mechanism for the origin of supernumerary chromosomes. Hum.Genet. 97:382-386 (1996)

Meroni G, Franco B, Archidiacono N, Messsali S, Andolfi G, Rocchi M and Ballabio A. Characterization of a cluster of sulfatase genes on Xp22.3 suggests gene duplications in an ancestral pseudoautosomal region. Hum Mol Genet 5:423-432 (1996)

A. Messina, M. Neri, F. Perosa, C. Caggese, M. Marino, R. Caizzi and V. De Pinto (1996). Cloning and chromosomal localization of a cDNA encoding a mitochondrial porin from Drosophila melanogaster. FEBS Lett. 384: 9-13.

Muller S, Koehler U, Wienberg J, Marzella R, Finelli P, Antonacci R, Rocchi M, Archidiacono N: Comparative fluorescence in situ hybridization mapping of primate chromosomes with Alu-PCR generated probes from human/rodent somatic cell hybrids. Chrom. Res. 4:38-42 (1996)

Napolitano M, Zingoni A, Bernardini G, Spinetti G, Nista A, Storlazzi CT, Rocchi M, Santoni A: Molecular cloning of CHR2, a cytokine receptor-like gene expressed by lymphoid cells. J. of Immunology 157:2759-2763 (1996)

Nelis E, Van Broeckhoven C, ...Archidiacono N, Rocchi M and ...et al.: Estimation of the mutation frequencies in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1 (CMT1) and hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies (HNPP): a European collaborative study. Eur. J. Hum. Genet. 4:425-433 (1996)

Pesole G., Attimonelli M. and Saccone C.: Linguistic Analysis of Nucleotide Sequences: Algorithms for Pattern Recognition and Analysis of Codon Strategy. Methods in Enzimology, 1996, 266:281-294

Pesole G., Ceci L. R., Gissi C., Saccone C. and Quagliariello C.: Evolution of the nad3-rps12 Gene Cluster in Angiosperm Mitochondria: Comparison of Edited and Unedited Sequences. J. Mol. Evol., 1996, 43:447-452

Robledo R, Melis P, Siniscalco M, Marchi J, Laficara F, Rinaldi A, Rocchi M, Filippi G: +2.71 LOD score at zero recombination is not sufficient for establishing linkage between X-linked mental retardation and X-chromosome markers. Am.J.Med.Genet. 64:134-136 (1996)

Rocchi M, Antonacci R, Marzella R, Finelli P, Cassano C, Lonoce A, Cino C, Forabosco A, Archidiacono N: Subchromosomal painting libraries (SCPLs) from somatic cell hybrids. Chromosomes Today Vol. 12 : 56-64 (1996)

Sbisa' E., Pesole G., Tullo A. and Saccone C.: The evolution of the RNAase P and RNase MRP associated RNAs : phylogenetic analysis and nucleotide substitution rate. J. Mol. Evol., 1996, 43:46-57

Spurr NK, Bashir R, Bushby K, Cox A, Cox S, Hildebrandt F, Hill N, Kao F-T, Krols L, Marzella R, Miller N, Nothwang HG, Rocchi M, Sarfarazi M, Stratakis CA, Wallgren-Pettersson C, Naylor S: Report of the four international workshop on human chromosome 2 mapping 1996. Cytogenet. Cell. Genet. 73:255-273 (1996)

Villa A, Strina D, Frattini A, Faranda S, Macchi P, Bozzi F, Susani L, Archidiacono N, Rocchi M, P Vezzoni: The ZNF75 zinc finger gene subfamily: isolation and mapping of the four members in human and great apes. Genomics 35:312-320 (1996)

Vincenti V, Cassano C, Rocchi M, Persico G: Assignment of the Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) Gene to Human Chromosome 6p21.3. Circulation 93:1493-1495 (1996)