Dr Rui Leite Portela Martiniano
School of Biological and Environmental Sciences
Faculty of Science
Languages
English
Portuguese
Spanish; Castilian
Degrees
2016, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, PhD Genetics
2011, University College London, United Kingdom, MSc Genetics of Human Disease
2010, University of Coimbra, Portugal, MSc Human Biology and Evolution
2009, University of Coimbra, Portugal, BSc Anthropology
Academic appointments
Lecturer in Human Evolutionary Genetics, School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, 2020 - present
Research Associate, University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, 2018 - 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, 2016 - 2017
Highlighted publications
Leite Portela Martiniano R, Marc H, Almarri M, Mattiangeli V, Kuijpers M, Chamel B, Breslin E, Littleton J, Almahari S, Bradley D, Lombard P, Durbin R. 2024. Ancient genomes illuminate Eastern Arabian population history and adaptation against malaria Cell Genomics, 4 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Martiniano R, Garrison E, Jones ER, Manica A, Durbin R. 2020. Removing reference bias and improving indel calling in ancient DNA data analysis by mapping to a sequence variation graph. Genome biology, 21 :250 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Damgaard PDB, Martiniano R, Kamm J, Moreno-Mayar JV, Kroonen G, Peyrot M, Barjamovic G, Rasmussen S, Zacho C, Baimukhanov N, Zaibert V, Merz V, Biddanda A, Merz I, Loman V, Evdokimov V, Usmanova E, Hemphill B, Seguin-Orlando A, Yediay FE, Ullah I, Sjogren K-G, Iversen KH, Choin J, de la Fuente C, Ilardo M, Schroeder H, Moiseyev V, Gromov A, Polyakov A, Omura S, Senyurt SY, Ahmad H, McKenzie C, Margaryan A, Hameed A, Samad A, Gul N, Khokhar MH, Goriunova OI, Bazaliiskii VI, Novembre J, Weber AW, Orlando L, Allentoft ME, Nielsen R, Kristiansen K, Sikora M, Outram AK, Durbin R, Willerslev E. 2018. The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia SCIENCE, 360 :1422-+ DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Martiniano R, Cassidy LM, O'Maolduin R, McLaughlin R, Silva NM, Manco L, Fidalgo D, Pereira T, Coelho MJ, Serra M, Burger J, Parreira R, Moran E, Valera AC, Porfirio E, Boaventura R, Silva AM, Bradley DG. 2017. The population genomics of archaeological transition in west Iberia: Investigation of ancient substructure using imputation and haplotype-based methods PLOS GENETICS, 13 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Martiniano R, Caffell A, Holst M, Hunter-Mann K, Montgomery J, Mueldner G, McLaughlin RL, Teasdale MD, van Rheenen W, Veldink JH, van den Berg LH, Hardiman O, Carroll M, Roskams S, Oxley J, Morgan C, Thomas MG, Barnes I, McDonnell C, Collins MJ, Bradley DG. 2016. Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 7 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Martiniano R, De Sanctis B, Hallast P, Durbin R. Placing ancient DNA sequences into reference phylogenies Molecular Biology and Evolution, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Journal article
Leite Portela Martiniano R, Marc H, Almarri M, Mattiangeli V, Kuijpers M, Chamel B, Breslin E, Littleton J, Almahari S, Bradley D, Lombard P, Durbin R. 2024. Ancient genomes illuminate Eastern Arabian population history and adaptation against malaria Cell Genomics, 4 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Morez A, Britton K, Noble G, Günther T, Götherström A, Rodríguez-Varela R, Kashuba N, Martiniano R, Talamo S, Evans NJ, Irish JD, Donald C, Girdland-Flink L. 2023. Imputed genomes and haplotype-based analyses of the Picts of early medieval Scotland reveal fine-scale relatedness between Iron Age, early medieval and the modern people of the UK. Marchini J. PLoS Genetics, 19 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Dulias K, Foody MGB, Justeau P, Silva M, Martiniano R, Oteo-García G, Fichera A, Rodrigues S, Gandini F, Meynert A, Donnelly K, Aitman TJ, Chamberlain A, Lelong O, Kozikowski G, Powlesland D, Waddington C, Mattiangeli V, Bradley DG, Bryk J, Soares P, Wilson JF, Wilson G, Moore H, Pala M, Edwards CJ, Richards MB. 2022. Ancient DNA at the edge of the world: Continental immigration and the persistence of Neolithic male lineages in Bronze Age Orkney Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Colombo G, Traverso L, Mazzocchi L, Grugni V, Rambaldi Migliore N, Capodiferro MR, Lombardo G, Flores R, Karmin M, Rootsi S, Ferretti L, Olivieri A, Torroni A, Martiniano R, Achilli A, Raveane A, Semino O. 2022. Overview of the Americas’ First Peopling from a Patrilineal Perspective: New Evidence from the Southern Continent Genes, 13 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Silva M, Oteo-García G, Leite Portela Martiniano R, Guimarães J, von Tersch M, Madour A, Shoeib T, Fichera A, Justeau P, Foody MGB, McGrath K, Barrachina A, Palomar V, Dulias K, Yau B, Gandini F, Clarke DJ, Rosa A, Brehm A, Flaquer A, Rito T, Olivieri A, Achilli A, Torroni A, Gómez-Carballa A, Salas A, Bryk J, Ditchfield PW, Alexander M, Pala M, Soares PA, Edwards CJ, Richards MB. 2021. Biomolecular insights into North African-related ancestry, mobility and diet in eleventh-century Al-Andalus Scientific Reports, 11 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Margaryan A, Lawson DJ, Sikora M, Racimo F, Rasmussen S, Moltke I, Cassidy LM, Jørsboe E, Ingason A, Pedersen MW, Korneliussen T, Wilhelmson H, Buś MM, de Barros Damgaard P, Martiniano R, Renaud G, Bhérer C, Moreno-Mayar JV, Fotakis AK, Allen M, Allmäe R, Molak M, Cappellini E, Scorrano G, McColl H, Buzhilova A, Fox A, Albrechtsen A, Schütz B, Skar B, Arcini C, Falys C, Jonson CH, Błaszczyk D, Pezhemsky D, Turner-Walker G, Gestsdóttir H, Lundstrøm I, Gustin I, Mainland I, Potekhina I, Muntoni IM, Cheng J, Stenderup J, Ma J, Gibson J, Peets J, Gustafsson J, Iversen KH, Simpson L, Strand L, Loe L, Sikora M, Florek M, Vretemark M, Redknap M, Bajka M, Pushkina T, Søvsø M, Grigoreva N, Christensen T, Kastholm O, Uldum O, Favia P, Holck P, Sten S, Arge SV, Ellingvåg S, Moiseyev V, Bogdanowicz W, Magnusson Y, Orlando L, Pentz P, Jessen MD, Pedersen A, Collard M, Bradley DG, Jørkov ML, Arneborg J, Lynnerup N, Price N, Gilbert MTP, Allentoft ME, Bill J, Sindbæk SM, Hedeager L, Kristiansen K, Nielsen R, Werge T, Willerslev E. 2020. Population genomics of the Viking world. Nature, 585 :390-396 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Martiniano R, Garrison E, Jones ER, Manica A, Durbin R. 2020. Removing reference bias and improving indel calling in ancient DNA data analysis by mapping to a sequence variation graph. Genome biology, 21 :250 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Sikora M, Pitulko VV, Sousa VC, Allentoft ME, Vinner L, Rasmussen S, Margaryan A, Damgaard PDB, de la Fuente C, Renaud G, Yang MA, Fu Q, Dupanloup I, Giampoudakis K, Nogues-Bravo D, Rahbek C, Kroonen G, Peyrot M, McColl H, Vasilyev SV, Veselovskaya E, Gerasimova M, Pavlova EY, Chasnyk VG, Nikolskiy PA, Gromov AV, Khartanovich VI, Moiseyev V, Grebenyuk PS, Fedorchenko AY, Lebedintsev AI, Slobodin SB, Malyarchuk BA, Martiniano R, Meldgaard M, Arppe L, Palo JU, Sundell T, Mannermaa K, Putkonen M, Alexandersen V, Primeau C, Baimukhanov N, Malhi RS, Sjogren K-G, Kristiansen K, Wessman A, Sajantila A, Lahr MM, Durbin R, Nielsen R, Meltzer DJ, Excoffier L, Willerslev E. 2019. The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene NATURE, 570 :182-+ DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Brace S, Diekmann Y, Booth TJ, van Dorp L, Faltyskova Z, Rohland N, Mallick S, Olalde I, Ferry M, Michel M, Oppenheimer J, Broomandkhoshbacht N, Stewardson K, Martiniano R, Walsh S, Kayser M, Charlton S, Hellenthal G, Armit I, Schulting R, Craig OE, Sheridan A, Pearson MP, Stringer C, Reich D, Thomas MG, Barnes I. 2019. Ancient genomes indicate population replacement in Early Neolithic Britain (vol 3, pg 765, 2019) NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, 3 :986-987 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Brace S, Diekmann Y, Booth TJ, van Dorp L, Faltyskova Z, Rohland N, Mallick S, Olalde I, Ferry M, Michel M, Oppenheimer J, Broomandkhoshbacht N, Stewardson K, Martiniano R, Walsh S, Kayser M, Charlton S, Hellenthal G, Armit I, Schulting R, Craig OE, Sheridan A, Pearson MP, Stringer C, Reich D, Thomas MG, Barnes I. 2019. Ancient genomes indicate population replacement in Early Neolithic Britain NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, 3 :765-771 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Haber M, Doumet-Serhal C, Scheib CL, Xue Y, Mikulski R, Martiniano R, Fischer-Genz B, Schutkowski H, Kivisild T, Tyler-Smith C. 2019. A Transient Pulse of Genetic Admixture from the Crusaders in the Near East Identified from Ancient Genome Sequences American Journal of Human Genetics, 104 :977-984 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Greene C, Kealy J, Humphries MM, Gong Y, Hou J, Hudson N, Cassidy LM, Martiniano R, Shashi V, Hooper SR, Grant GA, Kenna PF, Norris K, Callagha CK, Islam MN, O'Mara SM, Najda Z, Campbell SG, S Pachter J, Thomas J, Williams NM, Humphries P, Murphy KC, Campbell M. 2018. Dose-dependent expression of claudin-5 is a modifying factor in schizophrenia MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY, 23 :2156-2166 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Damgaard PDB, Martiniano R, Kamm J, Moreno-Mayar JV, Kroonen G, Peyrot M, Barjamovic G, Rasmussen S, Zacho C, Baimukhanov N, Zaibert V, Merz V, Biddanda A, Merz I, Loman V, Evdokimov V, Usmanova E, Hemphill B, Seguin-Orlando A, Yediay FE, Ullah I, Sjogren K-G, Iversen KH, Choin J, de la Fuente C, Ilardo M, Schroeder H, Moiseyev V, Gromov A, Polyakov A, Omura S, Senyurt SY, Ahmad H, McKenzie C, Margaryan A, Hameed A, Samad A, Gul N, Khokhar MH, Goriunova OI, Bazaliiskii VI, Novembre J, Weber AW, Orlando L, Allentoft ME, Nielsen R, Kristiansen K, Sikora M, Outram AK, Durbin R, Willerslev E. 2018. The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia SCIENCE, 360 :1422-+ DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Manco L, Albuquerque J, Sousa MF, Martiniano R, de Oliveira RC, Marques S, Gomes V, Amorim A, Alvarez L, Prata MJ. 2018. The Eastern side of the Westernmost Europeans: Insights from subclades within Y-chromosome haplogroup J-M304 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY, 30 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Haber M, Doumet-Serhal C, Scheib C, Xue Y, Danecek P, Mezzavilla M, Youhanna S, Martiniano R, Prado-Martinez J, Szpak M, Matisoo-Smith E, Schutkowski H, Mikulski R, Zalloua P, Kivisild T, Tyler-Smith C. 2018. Bible Says Israelites Didn't Exterminate Sidonians Response AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS, 102 :331-331 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Byrne RP, Martiniano R, Cassidy LM, Carrigan M, Hellenthal G, Hardiman O, Bradley DG, McLaughli RL. 2018. Insular Celtic population structure and genomic footprints of migration PLOS GENETICS, 14 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Haber M, Doumet-Serhal C, Scheib C, Xue Y, Danecek P, Mezzavilla M, Youhanna S, Martiniano R, Prado-Martinez J, Szpak M, Matisoo-Smith E, Schutkowski H, Mikulski R, Zalloua P, Kivisild T, Tyler-Smith C. 2017. Continuity and Admixture in the Last Five Millennia of Levantine History from Ancient Canaanite and Present-Day Lebanese Genome Sequences AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS, 101 :274-282 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Martiniano R, Cassidy LM, O'Maolduin R, McLaughlin R, Silva NM, Manco L, Fidalgo D, Pereira T, Coelho MJ, Serra M, Burger J, Parreira R, Moran E, Valera AC, Porfirio E, Boaventura R, Silva AM, Bradley DG. 2017. The population genomics of archaeological transition in west Iberia: Investigation of ancient substructure using imputation and haplotype-based methods PLOS GENETICS, 13 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Broushaki F, Thomas MG, Link V, Lopez S, van Dorp L, Kirsanow K, Hofmanova Z, Diekmann Y, Cassidy LM, Diez-del-Molino D, Kousathanas A, Sell C, Robson HK, Martiniano R, Bloecher J, Scheu A, Kreutzer S, Bollongino R, Bobo D, Davoudi H, Munoz O, Currat M, Abdi K, Biglari F, Craig OE, Bradley DG, Shennan S, Veeramah KR, Mashkour M, Wegmann D, Hellenthal G, Burger J. 2016. Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent SCIENCE, 353 :499-503 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Hofmanova Z, Kreutzer S, Hellenthal G, Sell C, Diekmann Y, Diez-del-Molino D, van Dorp L, Lopez S, Kousathanas A, Link V, Kirsanow K, Cassidy LM, Martiniano R, Strobel M, Scheu A, Kotsakis K, Halstead P, Triantaphyllou S, Kyparissi-Apostolika N, Urem-Kotsou D, Ziota C, Adaktylou F, Gopalan S, Bobo DM, Winkelbach L, Bloecher J, Unterlaender M, Leuenberger C, Cilingiroglu C, Horejs B, Gerritsen F, Shennan SJ, Bradley DG, Currat M, Veeramah KR, Wegmann D, Thomas MG, Papageorgopoulou C, Burger J. 2016. Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 113 :6886-6891 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Martiniano R, Caffell A, Holst M, Hunter-Mann K, Montgomery J, Mueldner G, McLaughlin RL, Teasdale MD, van Rheenen W, Veldink JH, van den Berg LH, Hardiman O, Carroll M, Roskams S, Oxley J, Morgan C, Thomas MG, Barnes I, McDonnell C, Collins MJ, Bradley DG. 2016. Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 7 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Cassidy LM, Martiniano R, Murphy EM, Teasdale MD, Mallory J, Hartwell B, Bradley DG. 2016. Neolithic and Bronze Age migration to Ireland and establishment of the insular Atlantic genome Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 113 :368-373 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Jones ER, Gonzalez Fortes G, Connell S, Siska V, Eriksson A, Martiniano R, McLaughlin RL, Llorente MG, Cassidy LM, Gamba C, Meshveliani T, Bar-Yosef O, Mueller W, Belfer-Cohen A, Matskevich Z, Jakeli N, Higham TFG, Currat M, Lordkipanidze D, Hofreiter M, Manica A, Pinhasi R, Bradley DG. 2015. Upper Palaeolithic genomes reveal deep roots of modern Eurasians NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 6 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Aloraifi F, McDevitt T, Martiniano R, McGreevy J, McLaughlin R, Egan CM, Cody N, Meany M, Kenny E, Green AJ, Bradley DG, Geraghty JG, Bracken AP. 2015. Detection of novel germline mutations for breast cancer in non-BRCA1/2 families FEBS JOURNAL, 282 :3424-3437 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Martiniano R, Coelho C, Ferreira MT, Neves MJ, Pinhasi R, Bradley DG. 2014. Genetic Evidence of African Slavery at the Beginning of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 4 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Martiniano R, Feitosa Y, Abade A, Manco L. 2013. Y-chromosome diversity in central Portugal reveals signatures of ancient maritime expansions ANTHROPOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER, 70 :355-367 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Martiniano R, De Sanctis B, Hallast P, Durbin R. Placing ancient DNA sequences into reference phylogenies Molecular Biology and Evolution, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
preprint
Martiniano R, Haber M, Almarri M, Mattiangeli V, Kuijpers M, Chamel B, Breslin E, Littleton J, Almahari S, Aloraifi F, Bradley D, Lombard P, Durbin R. 2023. Ancient genomes illuminate Eastern Arabian population history and adaptation against malaria bioRxiv DOI Publisher Url
Morez A, Britton K, Noble G, Günther T, Götherström A, Rodríguez-Varela R, Kashuba N, Martiniano R, Talamo S, Evans N, Irish J, Donald C, Girdland-Flink L. 2022. Imputed genomes and haplotype-based analyses of the Picts of early medieval Scotland reveal fine-scale relatedness between Iron Age, early medieval and the modern people of the UK bioRxiv DOI Publisher Url
Martiniano R, De Sanctis B, Hallast P, Durbin R. 2020. Placing ancient DNA sequences into reference phylogenies bioRxiv DOI Publisher Url
Martiniano R, Garrison E, Jones E, Manica A, Durbin R. 2019. Removing reference bias and improving indel calling in ancient DNA data analysis by mapping to a sequence variation graph bioRxiv DOI Publisher Url
Martiniano R, Cassidy L, Ó’Maoldúin R, McLaughlin R, Silva N, Manco L, Fidalgo D, Pereira T, Coelho M, Serra M, Burger J, Parreira R, Moran E, Valera A, Porfirio E, Boaventura R, Silva A, Bradley D. 2017. The population genomics of archaeological transition in west Iberia: Investigation of ancient substructure using imputation and haplotype-based methods bioRxiv DOI Publisher Url