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Overview

Anna Di Rienzo is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States and focuses primarily on research in the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work intersects several subfields including Genetics, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Physiology, Molecular Biology, and Cancer Research.

The scientist's research covers a diverse range of topics, with a significant focus on High Altitude and Hypoxia, Medical Imaging Techniques and Applications, and Adipose Tissue and Metabolism. Other subjects of study include Forensic and Genetic Research, Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism, Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, and Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques.

Some of the recent publications associated with Anna Di Rienzo span across prominent academic journals and cover a variety of research priorities. Notable papers include:

  • Getting genetic ancestry right for science and society, 2022, Science
  • Ancient genomes from the Himalayas illuminate the genetic history of Tibetans and their Tibeto-Burman speaking neighbors, 2022, Nature Communications
  • A pleiotropic hypoxia-sensitive EPAS1 enhancer is disrupted by adaptive alleles in Tibetans, 2022, Science Advances
  • Higher oxygen content and transport characterize high-altitude ethnic Tibetan women with the highest lifetime reproductive success, 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Transcriptomic analysis of iPSC-derived endothelium reveals adaptations to high altitude hypoxia in energy metabolism and inflammation, 2025, PLoS Genetics

Anna Di Rienzo collaborates frequently with several researchers contributing to various aspects of their work. Key co-authors include:

  • David Witonsky
  • E. Richetta
  • Esmeralda Poli
  • R. Pellerito
  • M. Stasi

Their publications have appeared recurrently in journals such as Physica Medica, Science Advances, UNC Libraries, Science, and Nature Communications, reflecting engagement with leading research venues in their areas of study.

Best Publications

  • The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

    Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Heng Li;Mark Lipson;Iain Mathieson

  • Tracing European founder lineages in the Near Eastern mtDNA pool.

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

  • Reconstructing Native American population history

    David Emil Reich;David Emil Reich;Nick Patterson;Desmond Campbell;Desmond Campbell;Arti Tandon;Arti Tandon

  • Using Environmental Correlations to Identify Loci Underlying Local Adaptation

    Graham Coop;David Witonsky;Anna Di Rienzo;Jonathan K Pritchard

  • Adaptation - not by sweeps alone.

    Jonathan K. Pritchard;Anna Di Rienzo

  • Detection of the Signature of Natural Selection in Humans: Evidence from the Duffy Blood Group Locus

    Martha T. Hamblin;Anna Di Rienzo

  • Genome-Wide Search for Asthma Susceptibility Loci in a Founder Population

    Carole Ober;Nancy J. Cox;Mark Abney;Anna Di Rienzo

  • Phenotype-genotype correlation of in vitro SN-38 (active metabolite of irinotecan) and bilirubin glucuronidation in human liver tissue with UGT1A1 promoter polymorphism

    Lalitha Iyer;Diana Hall;Soma Das;Melissa A. Mortell

  • Adaptations to Climate-Mediated Selective Pressures in Humans

    Angela M. Hancock;David B. Witonsky;Gorka Alkorta-Aranburu;Cynthia M. Beall

  • Complex Signatures of Natural Selection at the Duffy Blood Group Locus

    Martha T. Hamblin;Emma E. Thompson;Anna Di Rienzo

  • Global diversity, population stratification, and selection of human copy-number variation

    Peter H. Sudmant;Swapan Mallick;Swapan Mallick;Bradley J. Nelson;Fereydoun Hormozdiari

  • Adjusting the focus on human variation

    Molly Przeworski;Richard R. Hudson;Anna Di Rienzo

  • Adaptations to Climate in Candidate Genes for Common Metabolic Disorders

    Angela M Hancock;David B Witonsky;Adam S Gordon;Gidon Eshel

  • Corrigendum: Reconstructing Native American population history

    David Reich;Nick Patterson;Desmond Campbell;Arti Tandon

  • Colloquium Paper: Human adaptations to diet, subsistence, and ecoregion are due to subtle shifts in allele frequency

    Angela M. Hancock;David B. Witonsky;Edvard Ehler;Edvard Ehler;Gorka Alkorta-Aranburu

  • Interrogating multiple aspects of variation in a full resequencing data set to infer human population size changes

    Benjamin F. Voight;Alison M. Adams;Linda A. Frisse;Yudong Qian

  • An evolutionary framework for common diseases: the ancestral-susceptibility model

    Anna Di Rienzo;Richard R. Hudson

  • mtDNA Analysis of Nile River Valley Populations: A Genetic Corridor or a Barrier to Migration?

    Matthias Krings;Abd-el Halim Salem;Karin Bauer;Helga Geisert

  • Spatial patterns of variation due to natural selection in humans

    John Novembre;Anna Di Rienzo

  • Admixture facilitates genetic adaptations to high altitude in Tibet

    Choongwon Jeong;Gorka Alkorta-Aranburu;Buddha Basnyat;Maniraj Neupane

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan K. Pritchard
Jonathan K. Pritchard Stanford University
David Reich
David Reich Harvard Medical School
Richard R. Hudson
Richard R. Hudson University of Chicago
John Novembre
John Novembre University of Chicago
Mark J. Ratain
Mark J. Ratain University of Chicago
Olufunmilayo I. Olopade
Olufunmilayo I. Olopade University of Chicago
Graham Coop
Graham Coop University of California, Davis
Swapan Mallick
Swapan Mallick Harvard Medical School
Richard Villems
Richard Villems University of Tartu
Nick Patterson
Nick Patterson Harvard University

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