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Christa Caggiano

@christacaggiano.bsky.social

Bioinformatics PhD 🧬🧬🧬 Postdoc at the Institute for Genomic Health at Mount Sinai

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Christa Caggiano@christacaggiano.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Working on this project was so fun! ❤️ It's really awesome to work with so many passionate scientists who are all committed to improving our field (despite a climate that might not always be so friendly to that) We'd love any feedback, especially from other trainees and early career researchers!

Roshni Patel@roshnipatel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So excited to see this out! It was an absolute joy and honor to work so closely w @jayatirsharma.bsky.social and @christacaggiano.bsky.social on this - both are terrific examples of the kind of interdisciplinary human genetics researchers that we need more of (and will be on the job market soon 👀)

Christa Caggiano@christacaggiano.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm proud to share our review paper on founder populations in biobanks published recently! It was an extremely cool and humbling process to learn about how important founder populations are in human genetics. I'm glad to play a small part in it www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Revisiting Founder Populations in an Age of Global Biobanks

Founder populations have played a pivotal role in human genetics, enabling the discovery of causal variants for disease and providing insight into population history and dynamics. The rapid expansion ...

annualreviews.org

Christa Caggiano@christacaggiano.bsky.social · 11mo ago

So happy to see my last PhD paper published, focusing on cfDNA in detecting and monitoring ALS link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Epigenetic profiles of tissue informative CpGs inform ALS disease status and progression - Genome Medicine

Background Cell-free DNA (cfDNA), derived from dying cells, has demonstrated utility across multiple clinical applications. However, its potential in neurodegenerative diseases remains underexplored, ...

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Christa Caggiano@christacaggiano.bsky.social · last yr.

This is the last week to take our survey! If you're an early career researcher in human genetics and have some time, please consider taking our survey on how you use population descriptors 😇 It's a study run by trainees with the goal of improving trainee research quality!

Christa Caggiano@christacaggiano.bsky.social · last yr.

Are you an early-career researcher working on the computational analysis of population-level human genetics data? We want to hear from you about if, how, and why you use population descriptors in your research! Fill out our short survey: forms.gle/SCiNUq71wgi5...

flyer advertising the survey for human genetics trainees
Christa Caggiano@christacaggiano.bsky.social · last yr.

If you're interested in preprints and genomics please feel welcome to come to this meeting! Open to all! We review 2 preprints a month and create written reviews, which have the opportunity to be published in @cp-trendsgenetics.bsky.social

Genomics Preprint Club@genomicspc.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 Hello Bluesky! We’re hosting our June Genomics Preprint Club meeting this Friday, June 27 from 3–4pm EST! 📩 Contact us to join! 🗣️ Presenters: - Krzysiek Gogolewski: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... - Arnav Wadhawan: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Informational flyer for next GPC meeting on Friday, June 27 from 3-4pm EST.
Eimear Kenny@eimearekenny.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 Just posted: Our preprint introducing SPC — Spectral Components — is now live on medRxiv! Led by Dr. Ruhollah Shemirani and years in the making, this method offers a robust, scalable way to adjust for recent population structure in genomic analyses. 🔗 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/9

SPC: a SPectral Component approach to address recent population structure in genomic analysis

Population structure is a well-known confounder in statistical genetics, particularly in genome-wide association studies (GWAS), where it can lead to inflated test statistics and spurious associations...

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