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Christa Caggiano

@christacaggiano.bsky.social
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Bioinformatics PhD 🧬🧬🧬 Postdoc at the Institute for Genomic Health at Mount Sinai

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Christa Caggiano @christacaggiano.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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!
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Christa Caggiano @christacaggiano.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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...
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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 ...
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Christa Caggiano @christacaggiano.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
So happy to see my last PhD paper published, focusing on cfDNA in detecting and monitoring ALS link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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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 · 11/08/2025
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!
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Christa Caggiano @christacaggiano.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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
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Eimear Kenny @eimearekenny.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
📢 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
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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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Christa Caggiano @christacaggiano.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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
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Jayati Sharma, PhD, ScM @jayatirsharma.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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
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Christa Caggiano @christacaggiano.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I'm doing an AMA as part of the @geneticssociety.bsky.social DNA Day 2025! Feel free to ask me anything (genetics related) :) #DNADay2025 redd.it/1k7i3t1
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Christa Caggiano @christacaggiano.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Apocalyptic vibes in SoCal
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