2026 Andrea Novelletto: Biology and Biochemistry Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Biology and Biochemistry	49	17939	16466	574	543	166	10616

Overview

Andrea Novelletto is affiliated with the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy. Their research spans multiple areas within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Medicine. Specifically, Novelletto has made contributions in Molecular Biology, Genetics, Plant Science, Immunology, and Parasitology.

Their work covers a range of main topics including:

Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Forensic and Genetic Research
Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics
Genetic diversity and population structure
Turtle Biology and Conservation
Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities
Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics

Novelletto has published in several scientific venues, with frequent publications appearing in:

Marine Biology
Human Molecular Genetics
Scientific Reports
Veterinary Parasitology Regional Studies and Reports
European Journal of Protistology

Recent publications by Andrea Novelletto include:

Characterization of prevalence and genetic subtypes of Blastocystis sp. in wild and domestic Suidae of central Italy aided by amplicon NGS (2020, Veterinary Parasitology Regional Studies and Reports)
New insights into the evolution of human Y chromosome palindromes through mutation and gene conversion (2021, Human Molecular Genetics)
PCR-based identification of thermotolerant free-living amoebae in Italian hot springs (2021, European Journal of Protistology)
Kinship assignment with the ForenSeq™ DNA Signature Prep Kit: Sources of error in simulated and real cases (2021, Science & Justice)
Whole mitochondrial genome sequencing provides new insights into the phylogeography of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) in the Mediterranean Sea (2023, Marine Biology)

Throughout their career, Novelletto has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

Bianca Maria Ciminelli
Eugenia D'Atanasio
Beniamino Trombetta
Patrizia Malaspina
Fulvio Cruciani

Best Publications

Trinucleotide repeat length instability and age of onset in Huntington's disease

M Duyao;C Ambrose;R Myers;A Novelletto

1385
Citations
Tracing European founder lineages in the Near Eastern mtDNA pool.

Martin B. Richards;Martin B. Richards;Vincent Macaulay;Eileen Hickey;Emilce Vega

1260
Citations
CAG repeat expansion in Huntington disease determines age at onset in a fully dominant fashion

J.-M. Lee;E.M. Ramos;J.-H. Lee;T. Gillis

449
Citations
A Signal, from Human mtDNA, of Postglacial Recolonization in Europe

Antonio Torroni;Antonio Torroni;Hans Jürgen Bandelt;Vincent Macaulay;Martin Richards

391
Citations
The Geographic Distribution of Human Y Chromosome Variation

M F Hammer;A B Spurdle;T Karafet;M R Bonner

386
Citations
Phylogeographic Analysis of Haplogroup E3b (E-M215) Y Chromosomes Reveals Multiple Migratory Events Within and Out Of Africa

Fulvio Cruciani;Roberta La Fratta;Piero Santolamazza;Daniele Sellitto

287
Citations
A predominantly neolithic origin for Y-chromosomal DNA variation in North Africa

Barbara Arredi;Barbara Arredi;Barbara Arredi;Estella S. Poloni;Silvia Paracchini;Tatiana Zerjal

248
Citations
The Huntington's disease candidate region exhibits many different haplotypes.

Marcy E. MacDonald;Andrea Novelletto;Carol Lin;Dan Tagle

216
Citations
Interaction of normal and expanded CAG repeat sizes influences age at onset of Huntington disease

L. Djoussé;B. Knowlton;M. Hayden;E. W. Almqvist

216
Citations
Tracing past human male movements in northern/eastern Africa and western Eurasia: new clues from Y-chromosomal haplogroups E-M78 and J-M12.

Fulvio Cruciani;Roberta La Fratta;Beniamino Trombetta;Piero Santolamazza

214
Citations
Reduced Penetrance of the Huntington's Disease Mutation

Sandra M. McNeil;Andrea Novelletto;Jayalakshmi Srinidhi;Glenn Barnes

213
Citations
A Genome Scan for Modifiers of Age at Onset in Huntington Disease: The HD MAPS Study

Jian Liang Li;Michael R. Hayden;Elisabeth W. Almqvist;Ryan R. Brinkman

196
Citations
Y chromosomal haplogroup J as a signature of the post-neolithic colonization of Europe

F. Di Giacomo;F. Luca;L. O. Popa;N. Akar

189
Citations
The Y-Chromosome Tree Bursts into Leaf: 13,000 High-Confidence SNPs Covering the Majority of Known Clades

Pille Hallast;Chiara Batini;Daniel Zadik;Pierpaolo Maisano Delser

177
Citations
Mutational spectrum of the succinate semialdehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH5A1) gene and functional analysis of 27 novel disease-causing mutations in patients with SSADH deficiency.

Shinjiro Akaboshi;Boris M. Hogema;Boris M. Hogema;Boris M. Hogema;Andrea Novelletto;Patrizia Malaspina

176
Citations
Combined use of biallelic and microsatellite Y-chromosome polymorphisms to infer affinities among African populations

R Scozzari;F Cruciani;P Santolamazza;P Malaspina

151
Citations
The relationship between CAG repeat length and age of onset differs for Huntington's disease patients with juvenile onset or adult onset.

J. Michael Andresen;Javier Gayán;Luc Djoussé;Simone Roberts

145
Citations
Effect of trinucleotide repeat length and parental sex on phenotypic variation in spinocerebellar ataxia I.

Jodice C;Malaspina P;Persichetti F;Novelletto A

144
Citations
Protection against malaria morbidity: near-fixation of the alpha-thalassemia gene in a Nepalese population.

G. Modiano;G. Morpurgo;L. Terrenato;A. Novelletto

136
Citations
The human Y chromosome shows a low level of DNA polymorphism

P Malaspina;F Persichetti;A Novelletto;C Iodice

114
Citations