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Pooja Middha

@poojamiddha.bsky.social
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Genetic and Cancer Epidemiologist | Scientist at @RegeneronDNA | Alum @UCSFCancer, @dkfz, @UniHeidelberg, @umichsph | Views are my own 🇮🇳🇩🇪🇺🇸

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Pooja Middha @poojamiddha.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Come check out our poster tomorrow on whole-exome sequencing of colitis adverse events in patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors #AACR25 @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social
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Pooja Middha @poojamiddha.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Thrilled to share our work on investigating the role of a polygenic risk score for overall autoimmunity in cessation of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy for toxicities. bit.ly/3E3NkoX @adamjschoenfeld.bsky.social @ucsfcancer.bsky.social @ucsfmedicine.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social
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Germline prediction of immune checkpoint inhibitor discontinuation for immune-related adverse events
Introduction Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) can yield remarkable clinical responses in subsets of patients with solid tumors, but they also commonly cause immune-related adverse events (irAEs). T...
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Pooja Middha @poojamiddha.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Excited to share our latest work exploring the role of germline genetics in the development of multiple primary cancers @lindakachuri.bsky.social @jovia-n.bsky.social @johnwitte.bsky.social
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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Work by PhD student @jayatirsharma.bsky.social on how grouping Hispanic/Latino participants into a single group can obfuscate substantial substructure, leading to false conclusions. We show how heterogeneity by background group wrt genetic ancestry and environment can affect genetic risk models.
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Linda Kachuri @lindakachuri.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
This paper was a long time coming, happy to see it out today in @naturecomms.bsky.social: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We found some interesting links between genetic regulation of blood cell traits and #glioma risk + survival, pointing to #immune related mechanisms 🧠🧬
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Genetic predisposition to altered blood cell homeostasis is associated with glioma risk and survival - Nature Communications
Glioma is an aggressive brain tumor subtype with few known risk factors. Here, the authors utilise Mendelian Randomisation to investigate correlation of immune cell counts with subtype-specific risk a...
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Anthony Herzig @anthony-herzig.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
As incoming chair of the young investigator committee of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES), I'd like to share a great opportunity for 5 Early Career Researchers to join the different IGES committees, deadline 31st Dec, details here: www.geneticepi.org/yic_position...
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Elad Sharon, MD, MPH @eladsharonmd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
One of the most important multi-cancer analyses on #ImmuneRelatedAdverseEvent grading and clinical outcome is out this week from @JNCI : buff.ly/499OIBj
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Elad Sharon, MD, MPH @eladsharonmd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
These people made it all possible: @supportingswog.bsky.social
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Onyi Arah, MD, DSc, PhD @oacarah.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
academic.oup.com/aje/article/... #episky #statsky #epidemiology #statistics
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What is Machine Learning? A Primer for the Epidemiologist
Abstract. Machine learning is a branch of computer science that has the potential to transform epidemiologic sciences. Amid a growing focus on “Big Data,”
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Jon Lim, FRCP PhD @drjonlim.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
🎨 In case anyone need… The NIH BioArt Source is an awesome library of *free* professionally drawn illustrations for scientific presentations or figures. Downloadable in HD. Thank you NIH for this invaluable tool 🙏! Check it out 👇 bioart.niaid.nih.gov
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Jonathan Pritchard @jkpritch.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
In a new preprint led by @TheNikhilMilind, we explored a fascinating paradox: For many traits the number of duplications or loss-of-function (LoF) mutations is correlated with phenotype. Curiously, for most traits, the AVERAGE direction of LoFs and Dups is the SAME. Why?
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Pooja Middha @poojamiddha.bsky.social · 27/03/2024
Thrilled to see our work on genetic prediction of immune checkpoint inhibitor-mediated colitis published t.co/nsCV47ahwl
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Polygenic risk score for ulcerative colitis predicts immune checkpoint inhibitor-mediated colitis - Nature Communications
Colitis is one of the most common immune-related adverse events in patients with cancer treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Here the authors show that a polygenic risk score for ulcerative coli...
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Arjun Bhattacharya @arjunbhattac.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Our isoTWAS work with the Pasaniuc and Gandal labs is out at Nature Genetics! Great team effort, especially from Daniel Vo and Connor Jops. Appreciate the helpful and thoughtful comments from reviewers that improved our work! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Isoform-level transcriptome-wide association uncovers genetic risk mechanisms for neuropsychiatric d...
A multivariate framework for isoform-resolution transcriptome-wide association studies enables modeling of a greater number of genes, with the benefit of identifying isoform-specific associations with...
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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
I'm writing a molecular perspective on heritability, behavior, (and eventually) race/ancestry, group differences. The idea is to start with what we've learned from genetic data and then work backwards to what we used to know from classical studies. gusevlab.org/projects/hsq/
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Linda Kachuri @lindakachuri.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
We’re back with a bigger and better GWAS of PSA levels! 🤩 We substantially increased sample size in African ancestry (+58k) and Hispanic/Latino (+23k) men, which translates into meaningful improvements in PRS performance www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Linda Kachuri @lindakachuri.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Trying to be better with sharing work on here 😅 Check out our paper that identifies novel immune-mediated risk factors for glioma. We also found interesting genetic associations with survival and features of the tumor immune microenvironment 🧬 🧠
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