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Dennis Bontempi, Ph.D.

@denbonte.bsky.social
49 followers 43 following 26 posts

Doing fun AI/imaging genetics research @unil.bsky.social 🫀🧬 Former Research Scholar @ AIM Harvard 🇺🇸 and PhD @maastrichtu.bsky.social 🇳🇱 I love coding, reading, video games, and fitness 👀

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fbm-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Dirigée par @zkutalik.bsky.social et @rjhfmstr.bsky.social à la @fbm-unil.bsky.social, au @sib.swiss et à #unisanté, une nouvelle étude publiée dans @nature.com présente une méthode computationnelle innovante pour étudier ces effets liés à l’origine parentale. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
Parent-of-origin effects on complex traits in up to 236,781 individuals - Nature
A novel multistep strategy reveals how parent-of-origin effects shape complex traits in large-scale biobanks.
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Dennis Bontempi, Ph.D. @denbonte.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This year’s #ESHG 🧬 in Milan 🇮🇹 couldn’t have wrapped up better. After days of delicious food and even tastier science, I got to be part of something special: a talk by Katalin Karikó that ended with a room full of scientists standing up and clapping to her incredible career.
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Dennis Bontempi, Ph.D. @denbonte.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Particularly interesting talk from @rjhfmstr.bsky.social @ #ESHG25. Impressive work coming out of @unil.bsky.social 🧬🚀
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Dennis Bontempi, Ph.D. @denbonte.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
✨ What if your face could tell something about how old your body really is? Excited to share our latest paper just published in The Lancet Digital Health (open access!) 👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
thelancet.com
FaceAge, a deep learning system to estimate biological age from face photographs to improve prognostication: a model development and validation study
Our results suggest that a deep learning model can estimate biological age from face photographs and thereby enhance survival prediction in patients with cancer. Further research, including validation...
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Dennis Bontempi, Ph.D. @denbonte.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
New #preprint alert 🚀 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Did you know arteries can expand to compensate for bad cardiovascular health? A thread! 🫀🧬🧵
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Genetic Insights from Automated Lumen Diameter Measurements in Carotid Ultrasounds of the UK Biobank
Carotid ultrasound is routinely used in clinical practice for non-invasive vascular anatomical and functional assessment, such as measuring carotid Intima-Media Thickness (cIMT), an important marker f...
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Dennis Bontempi, Ph.D. @denbonte.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
First post on @bsky.app had to be a blue sky with some friends chilling under it. Behold the mascots of @unil.bsky.social roaming around the campus day in day out 🐑🐏
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