Christa Caggiano

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, ...

So happy to see my last PhD paper published, focusing on cfDNA in detecting and monitoring ALS

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Preprint alert📜: How do lifetime viral exposures shape our immune system response to future infections? 🦠🧬

We explore this question in our new preprint, led by postdoc
Chad Hogan.

biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

#SystemsImmunology #Immunology #Virology #Infection #HostResponse

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!

please feel free to share! i'll DM you the link

Yes not ideal hours for Israelis. If enough people are interested we can always discuss time change! I dmed you the zoom :)

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

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...

📢 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...

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This survey is based on the combined efforts of a lot of other really smart/col human genetics trainees, including: @jayatirsharma.bsky.social @roshnipatel.bsky.social
@raungar.bsky.social @dianexue.bsky.social @jpflores.rbind.io

flyer advertising the survey for human genetics trainees

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...

Do you work with human computational genetic/genomics data? Are you a trainee or early career scientist? Take our survey! And participate in our research study on how you use population descriptors in your work Survey link and QR Code are in the flyer

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...

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I'm doing an AMA as part of the @geneticssociety.bsky.social DNA Day 2025! Feel free to ask me anything (genetics related) :) #DNADay2025

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PRS for how good you are at doing drone strikes??

Apocalyptic vibes in SoCal