Alessia Ranciaro

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Alessia Ranciaro is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessia Ranciaro has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Genetics, 8 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Alessia Ranciaro's work include Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (4 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (4 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers). Alessia Ranciaro is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Associations and Epidemiology (4 papers), Forensic and Genetic Research (4 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (4 papers). Alessia Ranciaro collaborates with scholars based in United States, Tanzania and Kenya. Alessia Ranciaro's co-authors include Sarah A. Tishkoff, Jibril Hirbo, Thomas Nyambo, Sabah A. Omar, Muntaser E. Ibrahim, Godfrey Lema, Jonathan K. Pritchard, Jilur Ghori, Suzannah Bumpstead and Holly M. Mortensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Alessia Ranciaro

22 papers receiving 1.8k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Convergent adaptation of human lactase persistence in Africa and Europe

2006 937 citations Sarah A. Tishkoff, Floyd A. Reed et al. Nature Genetics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alessia Ranciaro United States	13	1.2k	463	281	156	121	22	1.9k
Jibril Hirbo United States	15	1.2k 1.0×	429 0.9×	233 0.8×	155 1.0×	103 0.9×	30	1.9k
Thomas Nyambo United States	18	1.3k 1.1×	547 1.2×	250 0.9×	104 0.7×	146 1.2×	31	2.2k
Kun Tang China	24	697 0.6×	865 1.9×	222 0.8×	167 1.1×	128 1.1×	57	2.4k
Luca Pagani Italy	29	1.4k 1.2×	499 1.1×	234 0.8×	139 0.9×	92 0.8×	82	2.4k
Katrina G. Claw United States	17	845 0.7×	548 1.2×	225 0.8×	117 0.8×	240 2.0×	42	1.8k
Godfrey Lema Tanzania	7	1.0k 0.9×	375 0.8×	135 0.5×	104 0.7×	69 0.6×	8	1.5k
Fernando Racimo United States	25	1.6k 1.4×	658 1.4×	151 0.5×	111 0.7×	145 1.2×	41	2.7k
Francesca Luca United States	26	846 0.7×	1.1k 2.4×	196 0.7×	67 0.4×	179 1.5×	63	2.5k
João Farias Guerreiro Brazil	23	505 0.4×	364 0.8×	141 0.5×	51 0.3×	169 1.4×	121	1.8k
David Witonsky United States	22	1.6k 1.4×	627 1.4×	225 0.8×	90 0.6×	97 0.8×	37	2.5k

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Kelly, Derek E., Shweta Ramdas, Rong Ma, et al.. (2023). The genetic and evolutionary basis of gene expression variation in East Africans. Genome biology. 24(1). 6 indexed citations

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Fan, Shaohua, Jeffrey P. Spence, Yuanqing Feng, et al.. (2023). Whole-genome sequencing reveals a complex African population demographic history and signatures of local adaptation. Cell. 186(5). 923–939.e14. 44 indexed citations

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Ranciaro, Alessia, Matthew E.B. Hansen, Shaohua Fan, et al.. (2022). Signatures of Convergent Evolution and Natural Selection at the Alcohol Dehydrogenase Gene Region are Correlated with Agriculture in Ethnically Diverse Africans. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(10). 8 indexed citations

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Campbell, Michael C. & Alessia Ranciaro. (2021). Human adaptation, demography and cattle domestication: an overview of the complexity of lactase persistence in Africa. Human Molecular Genetics. 30(R1). R98–R109. 11 indexed citations

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Musa, Hassan Hussein, et al.. (2020). Addressing Africa’s pandemic puzzle: Perspectives on COVID-19 transmission and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 102. 483–488. 51 indexed citations

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Hansen, Matthew E.B., Meagan Rubel, Aubrey Bailey, et al.. (2019). Population structure of human gut bacteria in a diverse cohort from rural Tanzania and Botswana. Genome biology. 20(1). 16–16. 61 indexed citations

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Fan, Shaohua, Derek E. Kelly, Márcia Holsbach Beltrame, et al.. (2019). African evolutionary history inferred from whole genome sequence data of 44 indigenous African populations. Genome biology. 20(1). 82–82. 78 indexed citations

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Loy, Dorothy E., Meagan Rubel, Weimin Liu, et al.. (2018). Investigating zoonotic infection barriers to ape Plasmodium parasites using faecal DNA analysis. International Journal for Parasitology. 48(7). 531–542. 9 indexed citations

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Rubel, Meagan, Matthew E.B. Hansen, Aubrey Bailey, et al.. (2016). Environmental and Dietary Factors Shaping African Gut Microbiomes. 1 indexed citations

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Hansen, Matthew E.B., Steven C. Hunt, R. Stone, et al.. (2016). Shorter telomere length in Europeans than in Africans due to polygenetic adaptation. Human Molecular Genetics. 25(11). 2324–2330. 81 indexed citations

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Ranciaro, Alessia, Michael C. Campbell, Jibril Hirbo, et al.. (2014). Genetic Origins of Lactase Persistence and the Spread of Pastoralism in Africa. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 94(4). 496–510. 135 indexed citations

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Campbell, Michael C., Alessia Ranciaro, Jibril Hirbo, et al.. (2014). Limited evidence for adaptive evolution and functional effect of allelic variation at rs702424 in the promoter of the TAS2R16 bitter taste receptor gene in Africa. Journal of Human Genetics. 59(6). 349–352. 4 indexed citations

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Ko, Wen‐Ya, Felicia Gomez, Laura Scheinfeldt, et al.. (2013). Identifying Darwinian Selection Acting on Different Human APOL1 Variants among Diverse African Populations. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 93(1). 191–191. 2 indexed citations

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Ko, Wen‐Ya, Felicia Gomez, Laura Scheinfeldt, et al.. (2013). Identifying Darwinian Selection Acting on Different Human APOL1 Variants among Diverse African Populations. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 93(1). 54–66. 70 indexed citations

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Campbell, Michael C., Alessia Ranciaro, Jibril Hirbo, et al.. (2013). Origin and Differential Selection of Allelic Variation at TAS2R16 Associated with Salicin Bitter Taste Sensitivity in Africa. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31(2). 288–302. 39 indexed citations

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Gomez, Felicia, Wen‐Ya Ko, Alessia Ranciaro, et al.. (2013). Patterns of nucleotide and haplotype diversity at ICAM-1 across global human populations with varying levels of malaria exposure. Human Genetics. 132(9). 987–999. 4 indexed citations

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Scheinfeldt, Laura, Sameer Soi, Simon R. Thompson, et al.. (2012). Genetic adaptation to high altitude in the Ethiopian highlands. Genome biology. 13(1). R1–R1. 217 indexed citations

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Ko, Wen‐Ya, Emanuela Giombini, Paolo Marcatili, et al.. (2011). Effects of Natural Selection and Gene Conversion on the Evolution of Human Glycophorins Coding for MNS Blood Polymorphisms in Malaria-Endemic African Populations. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 88(6). 741–754. 36 indexed citations

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Ranciaro, Alessia, Alain Froment, Jibril Hirbo, et al.. (2011). Evolution of Functionally Diverse Alleles Associated with PTC Bitter Taste Sensitivity in Africa. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29(4). 1141–1153. 64 indexed citations

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Tishkoff, Sarah A., Floyd A. Reed, Alessia Ranciaro, et al.. (2006). Convergent adaptation of human lactase persistence in Africa and Europe. Nature Genetics. 39(1). 31–40. 937 indexed citations breakdown →

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