Isabelle Dupanloup

  • Address for Correspondence
  • Research interests
  • Curriculum vitae
  • Publication list
  • Software Available: [Boundaries], [Admix 2.0], [SAMOVA 1.0]
  • Teaching 2002-2003: [Biometria II], [Ricostruzioni Filogenetiche], [Metodologia per l'analisi dei dati genetici]

  • Address for Correspondence

    Dipartimento di Biologia
    Università di Ferrara
    Via L. Borsari, 46
    I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
    Phone: +39(0532) 29.17.43 / Fax: +39(0532) 24.97.61
    Email: dpi@dns.unife.it


    Research interests

    Genetic history of modern humans
    Statistical genetics
    Co-evolution of linguistic and genetic differences in human populations
    Admixture in human populations


    Curriculum vitae

    Higher Education

    1987-93 University of Geneva Diploma in Biology (Human genetics)
    1995-98 University of Geneva Certificate in Computer Science
    1994-99 University of Geneva Ph.D. in Biology (Human genetics) with Prof. A. Langaney and Dr Laurent Excoffier

    Professional Appointments

    1993-99 Assistant at the University of Geneva
    1999 Assistant Doctor at the University of Geneva
    1999- Post-doc researcher at the University of Ferrara (Prof. Guido Barbujani Lab)

    Teaching Experience

    Dept. of Anthropology, University of Geneva:
    1993-99 Computer Science
    1994-99 Biological Data Analysis
    1996-99 Seminar on Methodology in Biology
    1997-99 History of human populations
    Dipartimento di Biologia, University of Ferrara:
    2001- Biometry
    2001- Human Population Genetics
    2001- Phylogeny reconstruction

    Research areas

    Former Research

  • Origins of agriculture and breeding in the Near-East and Africa, their causes and consequences (both genetic, climatic, environmental and demographic considerations)
  • Study on the differentiation of World's Languages
  • Study of the contribution of human genetics and genetic linguistics to the history of human populations (PhD thesis no3060, University of Geneva)

    Current Research

  • Inferring the genetic structure of populations
    (Collaboration with Prof. Laurent Excoffier University of Bern, Switzerland)
  • Study of the european prehistory through the analysis of the patterns of DNA diversity in human populations
    (Collaboration with Prof Guido Barbujani, University of Ferrara, Italy)
  • Detection of admixture in human populations
    (Collaboration with Dr Giorgio Bertorelle, University of Ferrara, Italy)
  • Role of linguistic boundaries in preventing gene flow between human populations:
    (Research program under a 48 months Swiss NSF grant (No 3100-039847.93) entitled "Gene flows within and through linguistics borders (Principal investigator: Prof. A. Langaney, Second investigator: Dr L. Excoffier))
  • Identification of interspecific hybrids
    (Collaboration with Dr. Leonardo Congiu, Prof Francesco Fontana, University of Ferrara, Italy and Dr. Lorenzo Zane, University of Padova, Italy)


    Publication list

    Refereed publications

  • Poloni, E.S., Semino, O., Passarino, G., Santachiara-Benerecetti, A.S., Dupanloup, I., Langaney, A., Excoffier, L. (1997) Human genetic affinities for Y-chromosome P49a,f/Taql haplotypes show strong correspondance with linguistics. American Journal of Human Genetics, vol. 61, p. 1015-1035.
  • Dupanloup de Ceuninck, I., Schneider, S., Langaney, A., Excoffier, L. (2000) Inferring the impact of linguistic barriers on population differentiation: application to the Afro-Asiatic - Indo-European case. European Journal of Human Genetics 8: 750-756.
  • Dupanloup, I., Bertorelle, G. (2001) Inferring admixture proportions from molecular data: extension to any number of parental populations. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18(4): 672-675.
  • Pereira, L., Dupanloup, I., Rosser, Z., Jobling, M.A., Barbujani, G. (2001) Y-chromosome mismatch distributions in Europe. Molecular Biology and Evolution 18(7): 1259-1271.
  • Congiu, L., Dupanloup, I., Patarnello, T., Fontana, F., Rossi, R., Arlati, G., Zane, L. (2001) Identification of interspecific hybrids by AFLP: the case of sturgeons. Molecular Ecology 10(9):2355-2359.
  • Dupanloup, I., Poloni, E.S., Schneider, S., Excoffier, L., Langaney, A. (2002) Génétique, linguistique et histoire des peuplements humains. Langages 146: 80-90.
  • Dupanloup, I., Schneider, S., Excoffier, L. (2002) A simulated annealing approach to define the genetic structure of populations. Molecular Ecology 11(12): 2571-81.
  • Caramelli, C., Lalueza-Fox C., Vernesi C., Lari, M., Casoli A., Mallegni F., Chiarelli B., Dupanloup I., Bertranpetit J., Barbujani G., Bertorelle G. (2003) Evidence for a genetic discontinuity between Neandertals and Cro-Magnons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 100(11): 6593-97.
  • Dupanloup, I., Pereira, L., Bertorelle, G., Calafell, F., Prata, M.J., Amorim, A., Barbujani, G. (2003) A recent shift from polygyny to monogamy in human populations is suggested by the analysis of worldwide Y-chromosome diversity. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 57(1): 85-97.
  • Fuselli, S., Tarazona-Santos, E., Dupanloup, I., Soto, A., Luiselli, D., Pettener, D. (2003) Mitochondrial DNA Diversity In South America And The Genetic History Of Andean Highlanders. Molecular Biology and Evolution 20(8)
  • Nasidze, I., Ling, E.Y.S., Quinque, D., Dupanloup, I., Cordaux, R., Rychkov, S., Naumova, O., Zhukova, O., Sarraf-Zadegan, N., Naderi, G.A., Asgary, S., Sardas, S., Farhud, D. D., Sarkisian, T., Asadov, C., Kerimov, A., Stoneking, M. (submitted) Mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosome variation in the Caucasus
  • Dupanloup, I., Bertorelle, G., Chikhi, L., Barbujani, G. (submitted) Estimating the impact of prehistoric admixture on the Europeans’ genome

    Book chapters

  • Dupanloup de Ceuninck, I., Schneider, S., Barbujani, G., Excoffier, L. (2000) Inferring the impact of linguistic boundaries on population differentiation and the location of genetic barriers - a new approach. C. Renfrew and K. Boyle, eds: Archaeogenetics: DNA and the population prehistory of Europe. McDonald Institute Monographs, p. 325-331.

    Paper presented in conferences

  • Dupanloup, I., Sanchez-Mazas, A., Langaney A., Blanc M., Dugoujon J.-M., (1994) Polymorphisme du système GM dans deux echantillons de populations est-africaines de langue afro-asiatique. Congrès de Biologie et de Génétique des populations (September, Poitiers 1994).
  • Dupanloup, I., Schneider, S., Excoffier, L. (1998) Inferring genetic impact of cultural and ecological barriers: a new approach. Congrès Zoologia et Botanica, Museum of Natural History, University of Geneva (February, Geneva 1998).
  • Dupanloup, I., Schneider, S., Excoffier, L. (1999) Inferring the impact of linguistic boundaries on population differentiation and the location of genetic boundaries: a new approach. Human Diversity in Europe and Beyond: Retrospect and Prospect. Biennial Meeting of the Human Genome Diversity Project for Europe (9-13 September, Cambridge 1999).
  • Dupanloup de Ceuninck, I., Langaney, A., Excoffier, L. (2000) Correlation between genetic and linguistic differentiation of human populations: the specific action of linguistic boundaries on gene flow ? Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications: Evolution of Language (3-6 April, Paris 2000).
  • Dupanloup de Ceuninck, I., Bertorelle, G. (2000) Inferring admixture proportions from molecular data: extension to any number of parental populations. VIIIth CEPH Annual Conference: Genetic History of Modern Humans (25-26 May, Paris 2000).
  • Dupanloup de Ceuninck, I., Bertorelle, G. (2000) L'analisi delle popolazioni mescolate sulla base di dati molecolari. Secondo convegno della Federazione Italiana Scienze della Vita (30 September- 4 October, Riva del Garda, TN, Italy 2000).
  • Dupanloup, I. (2001) Genetic differences and language affinities. The Genetics of Language (28 May - 1 June, Tilburg, Holland 2001).
  • Dupanloup, I. (2001) No evidence of demographic expansions in human Y-chromosome biallelic variation. Inherited Disorders and their Genes in Different European Populations: Euresco conference (15-19 November 2001, San Feliu de Guixols, Spain 2001).

    Other publications

  • Dupanloup, I. (1993) Effets de l'adoption de l'agriculture et de l'élevage sur les populations proche-orientales et africaines. Diplôme, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biométrie, Département d'Anthropologie, Université de Genève.
  • Dupanloup, I. (1995) Internet, un réseau mondial. Rapport, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biométrie, Département d'Anthropologie, Université de Genève.
  • Dupanloup, I. (1995) Introduction à la programmation HTML. Rapport, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biométrie, Département d'Anthropologie, Université de Genève.
  • Dupanloup, I. (1995-6) Le projet Frontières : flux de gènes à l'intérieur et à travers les frontières linguistiques. Bulletin du Centre Genevois d'Archéologie, p. 63-64.
  • Dupanloup, I. (1995-6) Linguistique et génétique des populations: une étude à l'échelle mondiale. Bulletin du Centre Genevois d'Archéologie, p. 80-82.
  • Dupanloup de Ceuninck, I. (1999) Evaluation et synthèse des contributions de la linguistique et de la génétique à l'étude de la différenciation des populations humaines pendant la préhistoire récente. Thèse de doctorat n°3060, Département d'Anthropologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Genève.
  • Dupanloup de Ceuninck I., Poloni E. Langaney A. (2000-2001) "La langue paternelle" Science et Avenir Hors-Serie No. 125, Décembre 2000/ Janvier 2001 ("La langue d'Homo erectus"), pp. 42-47.


    Last Updated: 08/14/2002 by Isabelle Dupanloup