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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

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Genetics

D-Index
104
Citations
70227
World Ranking
637
National Ranking
322

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1989 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1987 - William Allan Award, the American Society of Human Genetics
  • 1978 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1978 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. The scientist contributed to their field through various research efforts, although no specific papers or publication venues are listed in the data provided.

Their career included recognition by several major institutions. Awards received by Cavalli-Sforza include the William Allan Award from the American Society of Human Genetics in 1987, election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1978, fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1978, and fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1989.

The available data does not provide specific details on areas of study, subfields, or main topics covered in research. There is also no information on frequent co-authors or book publications associated with Cavalli-Sforza.

Throughout their career, recognition by national and international scientific organizations highlighted their standing within the academic community. Their professional activity contributed to ongoing discussions in human genetics and related disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Phylogenetic analysis. Models and estimation procedures.

    L. L. Cavalli-Sforza;A. W. F. Edwards

  • The history and geography of human genes

    L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza;Paoli Menozzi;Alberto Piazza;C. Stephen Downes

  • The Genetics of Human Populations

    Cavalli-Sforza Ll

  • Worldwide human relationships inferred from genome-wide patterns of variation.

    Jun Z. Li;Devin M. Absher;Hua Tang;Audrey M. Southwick

  • High resolution of human evolutionary trees with polymorphic microsatellites

    A. M. Bowcock;A. Ruiz-Linares;J. Tomfohrde;E. Minch

  • The Genetics of Human Populations

    M. G. Bulmer;L. L. Cavalli-Sforza;W. F. Bodmer

  • A Human Genome Diversity Cell Line Panel

    Howard M. Cann;Claudia De Toma;Lucien Cazes;Marie Fernande Legrand

  • An evaluation of genetic distances for use with microsatellite loci.

    D B Goldstein;A Ruiz Linares;L L Cavalli-Sforza;M W Feldman

  • Y chromosome sequence variation and the history of human populations

    Underhill Pa;Shen P;Lin Aa;Jin L

  • Reconstruction of human evolution: bringing together genetic, archaeological, and linguistic data

    Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza;Alberto Piazza;Paolo Menozzi;Joanna Mountain

  • Support from the relationship of genetic and geographic distance in human populations for a serial founder effect originating in Africa

    Sohini Ramachandran;Omkar Deshpande;Charles C. Roseman;Noah A. Rosenberg

  • The neolithic transition and the genetics of populations in Europe

    Albert J. Ammerman;Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

  • The genetic legacy of Paleolithic Homo sapiens sapiens in extant Europeans: a Y chromosome perspective.

    Ornella Semino;Ornella Semino;Giuseppe Passarino;Giuseppe Passarino;Peter J. Oefner;Alice A. Lin

  • Genes, peoples, and languages

    Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

  • The phylogeography of Y chromosome binary haplotypes and the origins of modern human populations

    P. A. Underhill;G. Passarino;A. A. Lin;P. Shen

  • Genetic absolute dating based on microsatellites and the origin of modern humans.

    D B Goldstein;A Ruiz Linares;L L Cavalli-Sforza;M W Feldman

  • Detection of Numerous Y Chromosome Biallelic Polymorphisms by Denaturing High-Performance Liquid Chromatography

    Peter A. Underhill;Li Jin;Alice A. Lin;S. Qasim Mehdi

  • Synthetic maps of human gene frequencies in Europeans

    P. Menozzi;A. Piazza;L.L. Cavalli-Sforza

  • A genomic screen of autism: evidence for a multilocus etiology.

    Neil Risch;Donna Spiker;Linda Lotspeich;Nassim Nouri

  • An evaluation of genetic distance for use with microsatellite loci

    D.B. Goldstein;M.W. Feldman;L.L. Cavalli-Sforza

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcus W. Feldman
Marcus W. Feldman Stanford University
Anne M. Bowcock
Anne M. Bowcock Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Peter A. Underhill
Peter A. Underhill Stanford University
Kenneth K. Kidd
Kenneth K. Kidd Yale University
Peter J. Oefner
Peter J. Oefner University of Regensburg
Bing Su
Bing Su Chinese Academy of Sciences
Lindsay A. Farrer
Lindsay A. Farrer Boston University
Li Jin
Li Jin Fudan University
Walter F. Bodmer
Walter F. Bodmer University of Oxford
Giuseppe Passarino
Giuseppe Passarino University of Calabria

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