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Francesco Mazzarotto

@f-mazz.bsky.social
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Bioinformatic scientist at work to disentangle the genetic basis of cardiovascular disease and mental illness 🧬🫀🧠 University of Brescia 🇮🇹 | Imperial College London 🇬🇧 Travel lover 🌏 | ⚽ player | 🏉 fan | many places to call 🏡

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Francesco Mazzarotto @f-mazz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
After a good 6 years (phew!), our work on pangenomic applications to detect genetic variants from targeted sequencing data is finally out in Genome Medicine ▶️ link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧬🖥️ 👩‍🔬
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Pangenomes aid accurate detection of large insertions and deletions from targeted sequencing: the case of cardiomyopathies - Genome Medicine
Background Gene panels represent a widely used strategy for genetic testing in a vast range of Mendelian disorders. While this approach aids reliable bioinformatic detection of short coding variants, ...
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Andrea Ganna @andganna.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
New preprint on a controversial topic: Through which socioeconomic mechanisms do individuals with higher genetic predisposition for educational attainment end up with higher income over their working life? We study this using uniquely rich Finnish data.
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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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One on left is a black dog and above it the words “Reality”. Below it is “I chased a squirrel” 

One the right is a black dog and above it says “LinkedIn”. Below it says, 

Proud to announce that I effectively executed a rapid-response squirrel displacement strategy to mitigate potential yard intrusions.

Humbled by the unwavering support of my family and local stakeholders.

This experience reinforced the importance of vigilance, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Looking forward to scaling this impact in future engagements.
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
"It may be uncomfortable to conclude that a widely used study design has been producing spurious results. But the evidence is in, and telling uncomfortable truths is a part of doing science." Problems with twin studies. theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/the-missin...
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The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
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Francesco Mazzarotto @f-mazz.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Excellent work by Stefania - postdoc in our group - in discussing 26 different tools for allele-specific expression analysis 🧬🔬💻 Review now out in Computers in Biology and Medicine 📰 #bioinf #bioinformatics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Allele-specific expression analysis: pipelines, applications, challenges, and unmet needs
In diploid organisms, genes typically exhibit balanced expression of maternal and paternal alleles. However, exceptions exist, such as autosomal genes…
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Francesco Mazzarotto @f-mazz.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Wonderful new benchmark to optimize identification of complex variants and/or variants in difficult genomic regions - including centromeric repeats! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The Platinum Pedigree: a long-read benchmark for genetic variants - Nature Methods
This work introduces a pedigree-derived benchmark for single-nucleotide variants, indels, structural variants and tandem repeats, offering a variant map to validate sequencing workflows or to support ...
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Francesco Mazzarotto @f-mazz.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Finally transitioned to BlueSky 🔵 hello everyone!
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