Irena MARTINOVIĆ KLARIĆ, Ph.D.

Research Advisor


Academic education:

  • Ph.D. from the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Zagreb (1999)
  • M.S. from Northeastern University, Boston, USA (1994)
  • B.S. from Emmanuel College, Boston, USA (1991)

Employment and professional experience:

  • Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb (2010 - )
  • Lavandula vera Inc., Zagreb (2008 - 2010)
  • Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb (1995 - 2008)
  • European Community Monitoring Mission (ECMM) and the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Croatia, Zagreb (1991 - 1992)

 

Teaching:

  • 2012 -             "Applied Anthropology" course within the graduate program of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb , Zagreb , Croatia
  • 2009                "Applied Molecular Anthropology" course within the graduate program of Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb , Zagreb , Croatia
  • 2008 -             "Molecular Anthropology" course within the doctoral program at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics of the University of Zagreb , Zagreb , Croatia

Scientific interest:

  • isolated and marginalized populations, population structure, anthropology in action
  • investigations of cultural and social changes and modernity competences among youth
  • modernity stress
  • biomarkers

Projects:

  • 2010 -               Research staff in the project of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia "The Influence of Migration on Regional Development in Croatia (076-0762385-2375)
  • 2007 -              Research staff in the project of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia "Molecular-genetic portrait of the Roma – an isolated founder population model" (196-1962766-2763)
  • 2005 – 2008   Principal investigator in the post-doctoral research project of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research "Population Structure and Genetic History of Western Balkan Roma" (7349)
  • 2002 – 2007    Research staff in the project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia "Anthropological Investigations of the Population Structure of Croatia – Anthropogenetic Approach" (0196005)
  • 1997 – 2002    Research staff in the project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia "Anthropological Investigations of the Population Structure of Croatia" (019601)
  • 1995 – 1997    Research staff in the project of the Smithsonian Institution "Biological and Cultural Microdifferentiation of the Rural Populations (Middle Dalmatia - Croatia )"
  • 1995 – 1997    Research staff in the project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia "Anthropological Investigations of the Population Structure of Croatia"  (3-01-133)

Selected bibliography:

Books

  • Martinović Klarić, I. Y Chromosome and the Search for the New Homeland Tracing the Y Chromosome Legacy from South-Asian to Balkan Wastelands and Obliquities: Genetic History and Reality of the Bayash and Roma. Sveučilišna knjižara, Zagreb, 2009.


Articles in journals

  • Martinović, I., M. Bakran, A. Chaventré, B. Janićijević, V. Jovanović, N. Smolej-Narančić, A. Kaštelan, Z. Grubić, R. Žunec, D. F. Roberts, P. Rudan. Application of HLA class II polymorphisms analysis in the study of population structure of the island of Krk, Croatia. Human Biology 69: 819-829, 1997.
  • Martinović, I., S. Mastana, B. Janićijević, V. Jovanović, S. S. Papiha, D. F. Roberts, P. Rudan. VNTR DNA variation in the population of the island of Hvar, Croatia. Annals of Human Biology 25: 489-499, 1998.
  • Martinović, I., L. Barać, I. Furač, B. Janićijević, M. Kubat, M. Peričić, B. Vidović, P. Rudan. STR polymorphisms in the population of  the island of Hvar. Human Biology 71: 343-354, 1999.
  • Martinović Klarić, I. Population structure of the rural communities from the island of Krk (Croatia): A comparison of biological (genetic), bio-cultural, cultural and geographic data. American Journal of Human Biology 12: 509-525, 2000.
  • Martinović, I., L. Barać, I. Furač, B. Janićijević, M. Kubat, M. Peričić, B. Vidović, P. Rudan. STR polymorphisms in the population of the island of Brač, Croatia. HOMO 51: 141-150, 2000.
  • Martinović Klarić, I., L. Barać, D. Buković, I. Furač, G. Geber, B. Janićijević, M. Kubat, M. Peričić, B. Vidović Pupić, P. Rudan. STR variation in eight village populations of the island of Korčula (Croatia). Annals of Human Biology 28: 281-294, 2001.
  • Barać, L., M. Peričić, I. Martinović Klarić, S. Rootsi, B. Janićijević, T. Kivisild, J. Parik, I. Rudan, R. Villems, P. Rudan. Y chromosomal heritage of Croatian population and its island isolates. European Journal of Human Genetics 11: 535-542, 2003.
  • Barać, L., M. Peričić, I. Martinović Klarić, B. Janićijević, J. Parik, S. Rootsi, P. Rudan. Y chromosome STRs in Croatians. Forensic Science International 138: 127-133, 2003.
  • Kubat, M., J. Škavić, I. Behluli, B. Nuraj, T. Bekteshi, M. Behluli, I. Martinović Klarić, M. Peričić. Population genetics of the 15 AmpFlSTR Identifiler loci in Kosovo Albanians. International Journal of Legal Medicine 118: 115-118, 2004.
  • Veselinović, I., M. Kubat, I. Furač , J. Škavić, I. Martinović Klarić, M. Tasić. Allele frequencies of the 15 AmpF/STR Identifiler loci in the population of Vojvodina Province, Serbia and Montenegro. International Journal of Legal Medicine 118: 184-186, 2004.
  • Peričić, M., L. Barać Lauc, I. Martinović Klarić, B. Janićijević, I. Behluli, P. Rudan. Y chromosome haplotypes in Albanian population from Kosovo. Forensic Science International 146: 61-64, 2004.
  • Babalini, C., C. Martínez-Labarga, H.-V. Tolk, T. Kivisild, R. Giampaolo, T. Tarsi, I. Contini, L. Barać, B. Janićijević, I. Martinović Klarić, M. Peričić, A. Sujoldžić, R. Villems, G. Biondi, P. Rudan, O. Rickards. The population history of the Croatian linguistic minority of Molise (southern Italy): a maternal view. European Journal of Human Genetics 13: 902-912, 2005.
  • Barać Lauc, L., M. Peričić, I. Martinović Klarić, A. Šijački, D. Popović, B. Janićijević, P. Rudan. Y chromosome STR polymorphisms in a Serbian population sample. Forensic Science International 150: 97-101, 2005.
  • Martinović Klarić, I., L. Barać Lauc, M. Peričić, B. Janićijević, R. Terzić, I. Čolak, A. Kvesić, P. Rudan. Evaluation of Y-STR variation in Bosnian and Herzegovinian populations. Forensic Science International 154: 252-256, 2005.
  • Martinović Klarić, I., M. Peričić, L. Barać Lauc, B. Janićijević, M. Kubat, D. Pavičić, I. Rudan, N. Wang, L. Jin, R. Chakraborty, R. Deka, P. Rudan. Genetic variation at nine short tandem repeat loci in the Croatian populations. Human Biology 77: 471-486, 2005.
  • Peričić, M., L. Barać Lauc, I. Martinović Klarić, S. Rootsi, B. Janićijević, I. Rudan, R. Terzić, I. Čolak, A. Kvesić, D. Popović, A. Šijački, I. Behluli, D. Đorđević, Lj. Efremovska, Đ. D. Bajec, B. D. Stefanović, R. Villems, P. Rudan. High-resolution phylogenetic analysis of Southeastern Europe (SEE) traces major episodes of paternal gene flow among Slavic populations. Molecular Biology and Evolution 22: 1964-1975, 2005.
  • Peričić, M., L. Barać Lauc, I. Martinović Klarić, B. Janićijević, P. Rudan. Review of Croatian genetic heritage as revealed by mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosomal lineages. Croatian Medical Journal 46: 502-513, 2005.
  • Peričić, M., I. Martinović Klarić, L. Barać Lauc, B. Janićijević, D. Đorđević, Lj. Efremovska, P. Rudan. Population genetics of 8 Y chromosome STR loci in Macedonians and Macedonian Romani (Gypsy). Forensic Science International 154: 257-261, 2005.
  • Vitart, V., Z. Biloglav, C. Hayward, B. Janićijević, N. Smolej-Narančić, L.Barać, M. Peričić, I. Martinović Klarić, T. Škarić-Jurić, M. Barbalić, O. Polašek, I. Kolčić, A. Carothers, P. Rudan, N. Hastie, A. Wright, H. Campbell, I. Rudan. 3000 years of solitude: extreme differentiation in the island isolates of Dalmatia, Croatia. European Journal of Human Genetics 14: 478–487, 2006.
  • Peričić, M., L. Barać Lauc, I. Martinović Klarić, P. Rajić Šikanjić, B. Janićijević, P. Rudan. The role of Southeastern Europe (SEE) in origins and diffusion of major paternal lineages. Documenta Praehistorica XXXIII: 574-591, 2006.
  • Škarić-Jurić, T.,  I. Martinović Klarić, N. Smolej Narančić, S. Drmić, M. Peričić Salihović, L. Barać Lauc, J. Miličić, M. Barabalić, M. Zajc, B. Janićijević: Trapped between Tradition and Transition Anthropological and Epidemiological Cross-sectional Study of Bayash Roma in Croatia. Croatian Medical Journal 48: 708-719, 2007.
  • Pokupčić, K., S. Cukrov, I. Martinović Klarić, M. Peričić Salihović, L. Barać Lauc, A. Blažanović, B. Janićijević. Y-STR Genetic diversity of Croatian (Bayash) Roma. Forensic Science International: Genetics 2: e11-e13, 2008.
  • Vitart, V., I. Rudan, C. Hayward, N. K. Gray, J. Floyd, C. N. A. Palmer, S. A. Knott, I. Kolčić, O. Polašek, J. Graessler, J. F. Wilson, A. Marinaki, P. L. Riches, X. Shu, B. Janićijević, N. Smolej-Narančić, B. Gorgoni, J. Morgan, S. Campbell, Z. Biloglav, L. Barać Lauc, M. Peričić, I. Martinović Klarić, L. Zgaga, T. Škarić-Jurić, S. H. Wild, W. A Richardson, P. Hohenstein, C. H. Kimber, A. Tenesa, L. A. Donnelly, L. D. Fairbanks, M. Aringer, P. M. McKeigue, S. H. Ralston, A. D. Morris, P. Rudan, N. D. Hastie, H. Campbell, A. F. Wright. SLC2A9 is a newly identified urate transporter influencing serum urate concentration, urate excretion and gout. Nature Genetics 40: 437-442, 2008.
  • Pulanić, D., O. Polašek, M. Petrovečki, A. Vorko-Jović, M. Peričić, L. Barać Lauc, I. Martinović Klarić, Z. Biloglav, I. Kolčić, L. Zgaga, A. Carothers, S. Ramić, M. Šetić, B. Janićijević, N. Smolej Narančić, K. Bučan, D. Rudan, G. Lowe, A. Rumley, P. Rudan, H. Campbell, I. Rudan. Effects of human isolation and inbreeding on human quantitative traits: An example of biochemical markers of hemostasis and inflammation. Human Biology 80: 513-533, 2008.
  • Martinović Klarić, I., M. Peričić Salihović, L. Barać Lauc, L. A. Zhivotovsky, S. Rootsi, B. Janićijević. Dissecting the molecular architecture and origin of Bayash Romani patrilineages: genetic influences from South-Asia and the Balkans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 138: 333-342, 2008.
  • Haliti, N., M. Čarapina, M. Mašić, D. Strinović, I. Martinović Klarić, M. Kubat. Evaluation of population variation at 17 autosomal STR and 16 Y-STR haplotype loci in Croatians. Forensic Science International: Genetics 3: e137-e138, 2009.
  • Barbalić, M., N. Smolej Narančić, T. Škarić-Jurić, M. Peričić Salihović, I. Martinović Klarić, L. Barać Lauc, B. Janićijević, M. Farrall, I. Rudan, H. Campbell, A. Wright, N. D. Hastie, P. Rudan. A quantitative trait locus for SBP maps near KCNB1 and PTGIS in a population isolate. American Journal of Hypertension 22: 663-668, 2009.

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