Cristian Pattaro
@cpattaro.bsky.social
Biostatistics. Genetics. Epidemiology. Group leader of Biostats & Epi @ Eurac Research https://cristianpattaro.quarto.pub/cp/
unrelated to anything I do, but some pieces are just worth sharing The Before and The After | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
The Before and The After | NEJM
When patients who have become homeless show a physician photos of themselves in better times, they are, in part, asking to be treated fairly, like they are people who might still turn their lives a...
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📌Open Postdoc position in biostats @ Eurac Research Institute for Biomedicine 🕓Call open until 16/7/2026 🔭We look for researchers passionate of #Statgen #CausalInference in molecular biol #MendelianRandomization #GeneNetworks #Triangulation #BigData Applications to be sent through the website below
Cristian Pattaro@cpattaro.bsky.social · 2mo ago📢 We are hiring! ✴️ We're looking for a PostDoctoral Researcher who would like to develop causal inference models for molecular traits in large datasets ✴️The position is for nearly 3 yrs in the ❤️ of the beautiful Dolomites with a fantastic group of colleagues! eurac.onboard.org/jobs/KmZ2WEm...
Is Change Possible?: ITT Episode 2.7: New England Journal of Medicine: Vol 394, No 23 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Is Change Possible? | NEJM
The use of race in medicine is harming patients. What is being done to move away from these practices and to change a culture of medicine based on the false premise that race is biological?
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Review from the lab just out in Cell Genomics: Translating genome-wide association studies at multiple scales: Drug target prioritization, cellular architectures, and organ imaging www.cell.com/cell-genomic... Co-led by fab PhD students Benedetta Felici and Siyuan Chen!
Translating genome-wide association studies at multiple scales: Drug target prioritization, cellular architectures, and organ imaging
This review covers how the results of genome-wide association studies are now utilized at multiple scales, informing our etiological understanding at the levels of molecules, cells, and organs. It cov...
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The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics
The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.
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📢 We are hiring! ✴️ We're looking for a PostDoctoral Researcher who would like to develop causal inference models for molecular traits in large datasets ✴️The position is for nearly 3 yrs in the ❤️ of the beautiful Dolomites with a fantastic group of colleagues! eurac.onboard.org/jobs/KmZ2WEm...
Postdoctoral Researcher in Multi-Omics and Causal inference
Eurac Research · Bozen/Bolzano
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W Oliveros Diez: The Developmental Genotype-Tissue Expression (dGTex) project pilot data. Importantly many of these genes are downregulated over time so largely missed in adult cohorts. Excited abut this new dataset. #eshg2026
Let's celebrate the diversity at #eshg2026. Show us your country's hidden gem! Reply with a photo of your favourite place, food, or anything you are proud of. Look at the map below to see where participants this year are from.
At #eshg2026 @silvidm.bsky.social and I presented the #EKIDNA project for the 1st time. Funded by #Interreg EKIDNA will bring together researchers and high-school students in #Tyrol, #SouthTyrol and #FVG to advance knowledge in #CKD genomics. It was to talk to many interested scientists
Attend the Leena Peltonen Award lecture now at #eshg2026 with Nicola Whiffin from Oxford University and learn About her recent discovieries in rare diseases and the broader inclusion of non-coding variants in clinical genetic testing that led to the Leena Peltonen Award. Congratulations!
Illuminating discussion on the #ethics of control group treatment in #RCTs. Scroll down to find many possible examples in #nephrology - like a textbook IRBs to keep eyes open
Swapnil Hiremath 🍁🇨🇦@hswapnil.medsky.social · 2mo agoSimulpub number 6 at #ERA26 Obi beats tacrolimus in membranous nephropathy www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... in NEJM No surprise after MENTOR
Interested in doing a PhD with me in epidemiology on causal inference and triangulation? In beautiful Rotterdam no less. www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/1... Pro tip: if you get to the interview stage, there WILL be a question about ice hockey
Vacature: PhD student in epidemiology to develop and apply causal triangulation
Many key questions in epidemiology are fundamentally causal. Yet, we often have to rely on assumptions that cannot be directly verified to judge whether an observed association truly reflects causalit...
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#CKD genomics @ #eshg2026? Don't miss #CKDGen & #KidneyGen-Africa talks by *** Pascal Schlosser C22.1 on #eGFR genomics *** Sahar Ghasemi P16.062.B / LTB1.5 on #UACR genomics *** Oyesola Ojewunmi C08.6 on African ancestry #GWAS see you there! @sfb1453.bsky.social @sfatumo.bsky.social
Attending #eshg2026? I'll be happy to introduce you to #EKIDNA, a new citizen-science project that will assess #CKD genomics w high school students. See you there! @silvidm.bsky.social will be there as well!
#finerenone effect in DM-free patients with - eGFR of 25-60 ml/min x 1.73 m^2 & UACR of 200-500 mg/g or - eGFR of 25-90 ml/min x 1.73 m^2 & UACR of 500-3500 mg/g #CKD Finerenone in Persons with Chronic Kidney Disease without Diabetes | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Finerenone in Persons with Chronic Kidney Disease without Diabetes | NEJM
In randomized trials, finerenone, a nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist, improved kidney and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD)...
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more on the issue of race-related equations in medicine from the #NEJM - reflections on #genetics www.podbean.com/ep/pb-zprkr-...
The Myth of Race and Genetics | Intention to Treat
We now know that humans are more than 99.9% genetically alike. So why does medicine still link certain diseases to race? And what do genetics actually tell us about race, ancestry, and disease? A full...
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#esaxerenone #DKD non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor blocker esaxerenone reduces glomerular hyperfiltration and albuminuria academic.oup.com/ndt/article/...
The non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor blocker esaxerenone reduces glomerular hyperfiltration and albuminuria
ABSTRACTBackground. Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is a major cause of chronic kidney disease, with glomerular hyperfiltration contributing to its progressi
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1/9 🚨 BREAKING OUT OF STEALTH MODE 🚨 Multivariate GWAS in Genomic SEM now runs on a laptop! New preprint + package update: a closed-form analytic solution makes multivariate GWAS ~800× faster, cutting runtimes from hours on HPC clusters to minutes on a personal computer.
The Predator Emerges
ALT: The Predator Emerges
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mGFR vs eGFR in Swedish adults #CKD
JAMA Internal Medicine@jamainternalmed.com · 2mo agoFrom JAMA: In this observational study of adults in Stockholm, measured GFR (mGFR) values below 90 mL/min/1.73 m² were associated with progressively higher rates of #mortality, #kidney failure, #heart failure, acute kidney injury, and major #cardiovascular events. ja.ma/4o8zzHY
We commend Steven Kahn, MBChB, Aaron Kelly, PhD, Desmond Schatz, MD, Justin Ryder, PhD, and Irl Hirsch, MD for Standing Up for Science at the ADA meeting. They were forcibly removed by police for handing out the following editorial. diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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🚨 A few months ago, a paper published in Science reported that “LLM adoption is associated with a large increase in researchers’ scientific output.” In a comment released today, we show that the reported effects are driven by a methodological issue in the empirical design. arxiv.org/abs/2605.17979
Polygenic score ≠ genetic predisposition A provocative reflection... and time to change our communication #statgen #gwas #prs #pgs www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Polygenic risk scores are not genetic predispositions
Nature Human Behaviour - Polygenic risk scores are not genetic predispositions
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New paper from the group! Relation between dietary patterns and kidney health using reduced rank regression. Again, congrats to our former student Giulia Barbieri 👏 below her story on the RRR trilogy #CKD www.linkedin.com/posts/giulia...
DASH diet, Reduced Rank Regression Dietary Patterns and relations with kidney function in the CHRIS general population study - BMC Nephrology | Giulia Barbieri
I’m happy to share our latest publication in BMC Nephrology 🎉 🏆 This work closes the "RRR trilogy" we built during my PhD, three studies exploring how reduced rank regression can complement tradition...
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📢I'm setting up a new team at the @humantechnopole in Milan. We have several openings in AI applied to nationwide health data, biobank-scale -omics. Milan is a beautiful city and at @humantechnopole is top notch. You can find post-doc positions here: careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Postdoc/...
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Again! Another amazing investigation on the genetic basis of #T2D by Eli Zeggini lab #gwas #MendelianRandomization www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Unravelling the molecular mechanisms causal to type 2 diabetes across global populations and disease-relevant tissues - Nature Metabolism
Analysing the causal links of gene expression and protein abundance on type 2 diabetes risk in blood and seven tissues related to the disease from individuals of four ancestries, the authors advance o...
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Genomic data are subject to multiple types of bias. Here is a very much needed and helpful review to help realize distortions in applied models 👇 #statgen Data biases in genomics: Trends in Genetics www.cell.com/trends/genet...
Data biases in genomics
Machine learning (ML) is developing into an inherent part of genomic research due to the ever-increasing amounts of genomic data. However, data-driven algorithms are strongly dependent on good quality...
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