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Hasanga Manikpurage

@hasanga.bsky.social
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Genetics of cardiovascular diseases Post-Doc @cam.ac.uk @dphpc.bsky.social www.inouyelab.org/home/people 🇬🇧 PhD @ulaval.ca @IUCPQ 🇨🇦 MSc @upcite.bsky.social @lvts 🇫🇷 From 🇫🇷/🇱🇰

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The Polygenic Score Catalog @pgscatalog.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Stay tuned here for upcoming updates to pgsc_calc (github.com/PGScatalog/p...), our tool for reproducible PGS calculation. Our next version aims to increase the scalability to WGS data in cloud trusted research environments (e.g. All of Us).
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GitHub - PGScatalog/pgsc_calc: The Polygenic Score Catalog Calculator is a nextflow pipeline for polygenic score calculation
The Polygenic Score Catalog Calculator is a nextflow pipeline for polygenic score calculation - PGScatalog/pgsc_calc
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Guillaume Méric @gmeric.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
New PhD position in my lab at @uniofbath.bsky.social (with both @tweethinking.bsky.social & Dr Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun)! We're looking for someone keen on bioinformatics and microbiome evolution. Important info below on eligibility & URSA competition funding👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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The overlapping microbiome: ecology, function and resilience beyond species boundaries at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The overlapping microbiome: ecology, function and resilience beyond species boundaries at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Well done @eliasallara.bsky.social! Burden of cardiovascular diseases in England (2020–24): a national cohort using electronic health records data. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Burden of cardiovascular diseases in England (2020–24): a national cohort using electronic health records data
Our study offers new insights into recent cardiovascular disease patterns and reveals important health inequalities at a whole-population scale for multiple cardiovascular diseases, during and after t...
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Sam Lambert @iamslambert.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Algorithmic fairness metrics have made big inroads in the AI/ML fields to investigate model bias. A clever PhD student (@clairecoffey.bsky.social) thought, why don't you see these methods applied to CVD risk prediction or polygenic risk scores? Enter our new preprint: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Current polygenic risk scores are unlikely to exacerbate unfairness in cardiovascular disease risk prediction
Background: Current cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk prediction models place many individuals in an intermediate risk category where clinical decision-making remains uncertain, highlighting a…
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
📣📣 Cool job alert! The @bakerresearchau.bsky.social is recruiting up to 2 new PIs in Biomedical Data Science 👉 www.seek.com.au/job/85989791... You’d join an awesome institute in an incredible city (Melbourne, Australia) as well as partnerships like with @cam.ac.uk… you’ll also get to work with me 😁
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Wish we could've cited this highly relevant (and consistent) study, published nearly the same time: Psychological & emotional impacts of communicating breast cancer risk using multifactorial assessment with polygenic risk score: Findings from PERSPECTIVE I&I www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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PHG Foundation @phgfoundation.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The concept of personalised health is at the centre of a renewed NHS and its 10 Year Health Plan says Prof Mike Inouye (thank you @mikeinouye.bsky.social)as we put 'Making personalised health work for population health' in the spotlight. Read it here: lnkd.in/eRDY5q2j #personalisedhealth
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Variation and prognostic potential of the gut antibiotic resistome in a population-based cohort www.nature.com/articles/s41... We look at the risks and sociodemographic aspects of antimicrobial resistance, and its association with recent global urbanization and middle-class growth.
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Pradeep Natarajan @pnatarajanmd.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Our study led by @romitb.bsky.social & C. Marnell shows that, when simultaneously considering clinical, laboratory, and genetic risk factors for incident CAD prediction, the top 2 model explanatory factors are: 1. Hypertension 2. CAD polygenic risk score www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
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Hasanga Manikpurage @hasanga.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
📣 Clap de fin for my PhD work 🎬! The fourth and final article is now available in @commsmed.nature.com. We benchmarked a set of PGS for cardiovascular traits available from the pgscatalog.org resource in different Canadian cohorts🍁. See more 👇🏽 - Link (OA): www.nature.com/articles/s43... (1/4)
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Appraisal of multiple polygenic risk scores to estimate the risk of myocardial infarction and coronary artery lesions - Communications Medicine
Manikpurage et al. evaluate the association between existing polygenic risk scores (PRS) and myocardial infarction (MI) as well as the extent of coronary artery lesions at coronary angiography. The co...
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Super excited to see beginning integration of PredictDB into OmicsPred! We've annotated/deposited the GTExV8 gene expression predictors so they are now available alongside all the other multi-omic predictors at www.omicspred.org More on its way... a wonderful collab with @hakyim.bsky.social & co!
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
📣📣 Preprint just out from the awesome Xilin Jiang, Yujie Zhao & co! Pleiotropic heritability quantifies the shared genetic variance of common diseases www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... The overlap of disease aetiologies is surprisingly pervasive... ~50% of common disease heritability is pleiotropic!
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Its been an absolute pleasure to have @gmeric.bsky.social in the lab for the last 7 years (omg has it been that long) Guillaume published a bunch of awesome studies (personal fav www.nature.com/articles/s41...) and continues his research programme as an Assoc Prof of Microbiome at the Univ of Bath!
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Sam Lambert @iamslambert.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
@hasanga.bsky.social from @mikeinouye.bsky.social / @cambridgebaker.bsky.social @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social sharing new results for local-ancestry effects on CAD risk loci. #ESHG2025
Hasanga presenting at ESHG 2025
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
📣 Psychological & behavioural considerations for integrating polygenic risk scores for disease into clinical practice www.nature.com/articles/s41... Saskia Sanderson & I wrote a piece assessing the common concern that PRS may have psych/behavioural harms tl;dr 👉 There's little/no evidence for this
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Loïc Lannelongue @loiclnlg.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
📣 Interested in the environmental (un)sustainability of AI (and how to support positive change)? Or know someone who is? I have an open position for a postdoctoral researcher to join my group in Cambridge, UK 🌱 🚨Closing June 5th www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51255/ Topics below 👇 #AcademicSky #GreenSky
Photo of Cambridge River and view over King's College with a group of people punting.Photo of the Heart and Lungs Research Institute on Cambridge Biomedical Campus. The building is bronze-colour and in front of a pond.
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Pradeep Natarajan @pnatarajanmd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Very excited to share our preprint led by M. Levin @skoyama.bsky.social J. Woerner & with S. Damrauer assessing genome-wide pleiotropy of >1,000 clinical traits across ~1.7M individuals with nearly 30K locus-trait associations! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social
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Pradeep Natarajan @pnatarajanmd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Honored to contribute to the @aspcardio.bsky.social Clinical Practice Statement on optimizing cardiometabolic health among South Asian individuals spearheaded by A. Rohatgi @drmarthagulati.bsky.social J. Patel www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Hasanga Manikpurage @hasanga.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
📣 Feeling extremely lucky to have modestly contributed to this masterpiece, investigating the impact of loss-of-function mutations in APOC3 gene on aortic valve disease risk reduction. See more in JACC 👇🏽 www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/...
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Loss-of-Function in APOC3 and Protection Against Aortic Valve Disease:
Discover why JACC is the ultimate publishing partner for your cardiovascular research.
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Hasanga Manikpurage @hasanga.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
📣 Thrilled to share this paper. We leveraged transcriptomic data from one of the largest existing aortic valve collection. We identified genes/pathways involved in disease progression/severity, with distinct transcriptomic signatures in TAV vs BAV. Perspectives for potential therapeutics? See more👇🏽
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Transcriptomic Signatures of Calcific Aortic Valve Stenosis Severity in Human Tricuspid and Bicuspid Aortic Valves
There is currently no medical therapy for calcific aortic valve stenosis. We aimed to identify transcriptomic signatures of the disease severity. We p…
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This study is a big deal. Is it going to be the one that kicks down the PRS door? Maybe. And that’s saying something. Assessment of a Polygenic Risk Score in Screening for Prostate Cancer www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Hasanga Manikpurage @hasanga.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Can testify to this -> awesome research environment, with access to great ressources, sharing space and time with incredible colleagues and renowned experts...
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Carles Foguet @cfoguet.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Our work on metabolic reaction fluxes as amplifiers and buffers of risk alleles for coronary artery disease is finally out in @molsystbiol.org ! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.... A short thread on our key findings 🧵👇
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Metabolic reaction fluxes as amplifiers and buffers of risk alleles for coronary artery disease | Molecular Systems Biology
imageimageUsing genetically predicted metabolic reaction fluxes, the authors identify reactions that can amplify or buffer the effect of coronary artery disease (CAD) risk alleles on disease susceptib...
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Sam Lambert @iamslambert.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Interested in calculating polygenic scores in the All Of Us workbench? Like those from @pgscatalog.bsky.social? Take a look at our new documentation for how to run pgsc_calc in the cloud environment: pgsc-calc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ho.... Very much work-in-progress, optimisations incoming!
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Running the PGS Catalog Calculator via the All of Us workbench — Polygenic Score (PGS) Catalog Calculator documentation
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Hilary Martin @hilarycmartin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Pleased to have been able to make a modest contribution to this piece about the genetic contributors to and consequences of socioeconomic status, initiated and led by @dr-appie.bsky.social . Share with your social science friends!
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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Our paper on ancient human population structure is now published. We find that the ancestors of modern humans lived in multiple populations during the period when Homo sapiens evolved in Africa. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans - Nature Genetics
The cobraa model extends the pairwise sequentially Markovian coalescent to identify structured population history by examination of the model transition matrix. Applied to human polymorphism data, cob...
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Kat Holt @katholt.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Watching the US take a wrecking ball to science 💔 🤯 Reminder of the importance of doing science in the open. Put data, software, resources in public domain, where no single govt can erase them. This is our collective knowledge. Distributed data systems are essential. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Genomic data sharing: you don’t know what you’ve got (till it’s gone) - Nature Reviews Genetics
Reflecting on the core values of early data sharing agreements, the Bermuda Principles and the Fort Lauderdale Agreement, Kathryn E. Holt and Michael Inouye emphasize the need to reaffirm our commitme...
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Hasanga Manikpurage @hasanga.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
📣 More data on the impact of high Lp(a) levels on Aortic Valve Disease/CAVS! Patients are more likely to undergo AV replacement during their life course, and face a higher risk of combined CV events. Link (Open Access)👇🏽: www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
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Impact of Lipoprotein(a) on Valvular and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Patients With Calcific Aortic Valve Stenosis | Journal of the American Heart Association
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Claire Coffey @clairecoffey.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I passed my PhD viva! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this incredible journey, especially my supervisors @iamslambert.bsky.social, Angela Wood, and @mikeinouye.bsky.social 😄
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
📣 New from the lab: The contribution of genetic determinants of blood gene expression and splicing to molecular phenotypes and health outcomes www.nature.com/articles/s41... Check out the INTERVAL RNAseq portal www.intervalrna.org.uk Led by @alextokolyi.bsky.social & Elodie Persyn!
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Hasanga Manikpurage @hasanga.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
And it's free 😀
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
📣📣Genomic data sharing: you don’t know what you’ve got (till it’s gone) www.nature.com/articles/s41... A comment @natrevgenet.bsky.social from @katholt.bsky.social and me
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Pradeep Natarajan @pnatarajanmd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
So fantastic that NPR featured the unexplained troublingly high rates of heart disease among S Asian individuals, and our research efforts with the OurHealth Study to address these issues! www.npr.org/2025/02/11/n... @broadinstitute.org @prsdiversity.bsky.social
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Researchers look to genetics to better understand heart disease in South Asians
People of South Asian descent are more likely to be affected by heart disease, but their risks often go unnoticed. Researchers are looking to genetics to learn more and prevent early deaths.
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OmicsPred @omicspred.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Introducing a major upgrade to OmicsPred platform (www.omicspred.org) — a resource to enhance the accessibility and usability of genetic scores for multi-omic traits and their phenotypic associations. (1/N)
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Hasanga Manikpurage @hasanga.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Important Statement / Updates from major European actors in cardiovascular disease risk prediction, using genetic approches.
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
A huge step forward in Europe for the use of PRS as a risk modifier for current clinical risk models of cardiovascular disease (eg SCORE2). academic.oup.com/eurheartj/ad...
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Hasanga Manikpurage @hasanga.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Finally! Happy to share my 3rd PhD paper, now published in Atherosclerosis Journal ! 🚀 This study explores the impact of integrating multiple independent lipid PRSs with a CAD-PRS for CAD incidence prediction in UK Biobank! 👉🏽Link (Open Access! 📖) : www.atherosclerosis-journal.com/article/S002...
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Association of genetically predicted levels of circulating blood lipids with coronary artery disease incidence
Estimating the genetic risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) is now possible by aggregating data from genome-wide association studies (GWAS) into polygenic risk scores (PRS). Combining multiple PRS for specific circulating blood lipids could improve risk prediction. Here, we sought to evaluate the performance of PRS derived from CAD and blood lipids GWAS to predict the incidence of CAD.
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Mike Inouye @mikeinouye.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
If you're working with Nightingale Health metabolomics data from UK Biobank, be sure to check out the excellent (and important) work @sritchie73.bsky.social and colleagues have done on its QC and normalisation: www.nature.com/articles/s41... ukbnmr on CRAN: cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
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Quality control and removal of technical variation of NMR metabolic biomarker data in ~120,000 UK Biobank participants - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Quality control and removal of technical variation of NMR metabolic biomarker data in ~120,000 UK Biobank participants
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Pradeep Natarajan @pnatarajanmd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Among British Pakistani & British Bangladeshi individuals, partitioned T2D polygenic load for insulin deficiency & lipodystrophy was higher than white European individuals & predisposed to faster progression to T2D & complications www.nature.com/articles/s41... @natureportfolio.bsky.social
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The Polygenic Score Catalog @pgscatalog.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The Catalog isn't just a knowledgebase and source of polygenic scores, we also provide open-soruce tools to make PGS calculation easier and more reproducible! You can find our pgsc_calc tool on github (github.com/PGScatalog/p...) with extensive documentation (pgsc-calc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
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The Polygenic Score Catalog @pgscatalog.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Let's start with introductions! The PGS Catalog is an open database of polygenic scores and the relevant metadata required for accurate application and evaluation. Everything is on our website www.PGSCatalog.org, and our newest publication describes how far we've come: rdcu.be/d1vTG since 2019!
Gif of Julie Andrews singing "Let's start at the very beginning" from Sound of Music.
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Dr. Scott C. Ritchie @sritchie73.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Announcing version 3.2.0 of the ukbnmr R package now available on CRAN: cran.r-project.org/web/packages... This is a major update that makes the package compatible with the UK Biobank Research Analysis Platform and shows removal of technical variation on the full NMR data release coming Jan 2025
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ukbnmr: Removal of Unwanted Technical Variation from UK Biobank NMR Metabolomics Biomarker Data
A suite of utilities for working with the UK Biobank &lt;<a href="https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/" target="_top">https://www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/</a>&gt; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy (NMR) metabol...
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