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Luigi Cavalli-Sforza Info

Luigi Cavalli-Sforza

Profile: http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/Luigi_Cavalli-Sforza/
Academic Appointments
Appointment
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Emeritus (Active) Professor
Genetics
Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council
Genetics
  
Research Interests

My research is dedicated to the study of the origin of modern humans and their evolutionary history by using genetic markers. Presently, the laboratory is concentrating on the study of Y chromosomes. My personal interest has also been dedicated for a long time to a multidisciplinary approach to human evolution, including demography, archeology, linguistics, anthropology, surnames, and to the interactions of genetic and cultural evolution.

Community and International Work
  • collaboration with Italian geneticists, Italy More »
Publications
  • Sengupta S, Zhivotovsky LA, King R, Mehdi SQ, Edmonds CA, Chow CE, Lin AA, Mitra M, Sil SK, Ramesh A, Usha Rani MV, Thakur CM, Cavalli-Sforza LL, Majumder PP, Underhill PA "Polarity and temporality of high-resolution y-chromosome distributions in India identify both indigenous and exogenous expansions and reveal minor genetic influence of central asian pastoralists." Am J Hum Genet 2006; 78: 2: 202-21 More »
  • Cavalli-Sforza LL, "The Human Genome Diversity Project: past, present and future." Nat Rev Genet 2005; 6: 4: 333-40 More »
  • Vlad MO, Szedlacsek SE, Pourmand N, Cavalli-Sforza LL, Oefner P, Ross J "Fisher's theorems for multivariable, time- and space-dependent systems, with applications in population genetics and chemical kinetics." Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005; More »
  • Cavalli-Sforza LL, "Studying diversity." EMBO Rep 2005; 6: 8: 713 More »
  • Kivisild T, Shen P, Wall DP, Do B, Sung R, Davis KK, Passarino G, Underhill PA, Scharfe C, Torroni A, Scozzari R, Modiano D, Coppa A, de Knjiff P, Feldman MW, Cavalli-Sforza LL, Oefner PJ "The role of selection in the evolution of human mitochondrial genomes." Genetics 2005; More »
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