Cristian Pattaro

"I have come to realize teaching, mentoring, and academic life are part of who I am. No matter where my career or destiny takes me, I do not think I can completely walk away from them." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/47cvfzW

Excited to announce this new publication - everything you ever wanted to know about the "average" human genome - from @exeter.ac.uk @nihrexeterbrc.bsky.social. Variation is the norm; everyone has rare, deleterious, de novo, and pathogenic variants! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Deconfounding kidney function genomics from filtration-marker biology Written with June Fabian, a short reflection on measurement error in kidney function genomic studies inspired by Titan et al. Kidney Int 2026 #GWAS #CKD #kidneygen Full text: rdcu.be/48radcdZJMka www.nature.com/articles/s41...

8 yrs later, I once again had the pleasure to present #CKDGen findings in #Montreal, back at the Palais des congrès. Wonderful to reconnect with so many colleagues in a venue that for me is now quite iconic

Presenting a poster at upcoming #ASHG2026 🧬 pls stop by! Ryosuke Fujii (Board 8230T) 🎓 Educational polygenic score was associated with behaviours and cardiometabolic outcomes in 35,000 Japanese individuals Looking forward to the first Canada 🇨🇦 and autumn in Montreal 🍂

#CKDGen on the spot 😜 @ #ASHG2026 Wed 21st, 11 am, Room 516BC/Lev.5 Longitudinal #GWAS reveals the genetic architecture of kidney function across the life course in the population & disease Multi-ancestry #GWAS meta-analysis on 3.5 million people expands the genomic landscape of kidney function

At #ASHG2026 don't miss our posters! Board 6053T, by Sara Lago, Oct 22nd, 4:15-6:15 pm Board 4024T: by Christian Fuchsberger, Oct 22nd, 4:15-6:15 pm Board 8427F: by @nadialipour.bsky.social Oct 23rd, 2:30-4:30 pm looking fwd to meeting you!

Attending #IGES2026? Our #EURAC group will present Genomic Viewer: Visual Integration of Multi-Omics Data for validating #gwas loci by Sara Lago Low‐Dimensional LD Matrices as a Scalable Framework for Multi‐ Ancestry Fine‐Mapping by @nadialipour.bsky.social see u there!

How much do PhD students earn? The first comprehensive overview of PhD income shows vast imbalances across much of Europe Read the full story: go.nature.com/4dJZJgt go.nature.com/4dJgCYC

Got something to say about one of our articles, or something else in the stats world? Please email significance@rss.org.uk Contributions should be no more than 400 words in length and clearly marked "For publication". Letters may be edited to fit.

fascinating #popgen story Ancient genomes reveal distinct human dispersals and social stratification in the settlement history of western Remote Oceania: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Fundamental changes are needed to safeguard the planet for future generations go.nature.com/4s6MdJv

Q: How do you know when you are speaking with an extroverted statistician? A: The extroverted statistician looks at your feet when they are talking to you. How improvisation training could transform your career: academic.oup.com/jrssig/artic... #freetoread

food for thoughts for ... reviewers ... 🤔

Holy shit FOUR members of the ethics committee in Denmark that gave the green light to allow the widely-condemned RFK Jr-funded trial to proceed in Guinea-Bissau have now resigned in protest This quote is 🔥 Great reporting by @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

A real pleasure attending Prof. Mousumi Banerjee seminar @unibz.bsky.social today. For our #Biostats group a great occasion to reach out to the fantastic data science researchers @ unibz www.unibz.it/de/events/a-...

“I will miss the creativity of teaching.” On #WorldTeachersDay, check out this Working Life from a retired professor emeritus on how she challenged students to think beyond facts—and how she learned to teach like a scientist. https://scim.ag/4yr2349

I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding

Double your money back if this is not the most uplifting, heartwarming thing you read today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/06/s...

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What a honour having Prof. Mousumi Banerjee joining our group of #Biostats & #Epidemiology this year, thanks to the mobility grants from the Autonomous Province of Bolzano. It's being an enormous professional and personal enrichment for all of us! www.eurac.edu/en/magazine/...

Funny quick read with nice ideas on improving lab life Twenty-two easy ways to power up your lab meetings www.nature.com/articles/d41...

neologism: #Mendelianization - Concentrating Polygenic Signal Into a Single Causal Locus #statgen onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Largest study of its kind finds that neighbourhoods with a rise in the number of undocumented migrants did not show a rise in violent crime rates go.nature.com/4gvBVyq

Must-know numbers in human genetics -- As many of you know, I'm writing a free online textbook in human genetics. In this blog post I cover a key skill for genome scientists from that book: how to use mental math to figure out key genome properties. jkpritchard.substack.com/p/on-fermi-p...

interesting: Allele frequency trajectories across age groups reveal ongoing natural selection shaping disease susceptibility: The American Journal of Human Genetics www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex...

"Which question are you asking?" #stats #regression

unrelated to anything I do, but some pieces are just worth sharing The Before and The After | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

📌Open Postdoc position in biostats @ Eurac Research Institute for Biomedicine 🕓Call open until 16/7/2026 🔭We look for researchers passionate of #Statgen #CausalInference in molecular biol #MendelianRandomization #GeneNetworks #Triangulation #BigData Applications to be sent through the website below

Is Change Possible?: ITT Episode 2.7: New England Journal of Medicine: Vol 394, No 23 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Review from the lab just out in Cell Genomics: Translating genome-wide association studies at multiple scales: Drug target prioritization, cellular architectures, and organ imaging www.cell.com/cell-genomic... Co-led by fab PhD students Benedetta Felici and Siyuan Chen!

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

📢 We are hiring! ✴️ We're looking for a PostDoctoral Researcher who would like to develop causal inference models for molecular traits in large datasets ✴️The position is for nearly 3 yrs in the ❤️ of the beautiful Dolomites with a fantastic group of colleagues! eurac.onboard.org/jobs/KmZ2WEm...

Structural equation modeling dominating the scene of #statgen at #eshg2026

Let's celebrate the diversity at #eshg2026. Show us your country's hidden gem! Reply with a photo of your favourite place, food, or anything you are proud of. Look at the map below to see where participants this year are from.

Italy is the 2nd top contributor of abstracts to #eshg2026 🙂👏

Attend the Leena Peltonen Award lecture now at #eshg2026 with Nicola Whiffin from Oxford University and learn About her recent discovieries in rare diseases and the broader inclusion of non-coding variants in clinical genetic testing that led to the Leena Peltonen Award. Congratulations!

Illuminating discussion on the #ethics of control group treatment in #RCTs. Scroll down to find many possible examples in #nephrology - like a textbook IRBs to keep eyes open

Interested in doing a PhD with me in epidemiology on causal inference and triangulation? In beautiful Rotterdam no less. www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/1... Pro tip: if you get to the interview stage, there WILL be a question about ice hockey

#CKD genomics @ #eshg2026? Don't miss #CKDGen & #KidneyGen-Africa talks by *** Pascal Schlosser C22.1 on #eGFR genomics *** Sahar Ghasemi P16.062.B / LTB1.5 on #UACR genomics *** Oyesola Ojewunmi C08.6 on African ancestry #GWAS see you there! @sfb1453.bsky.social @sfatumo.bsky.social

#finerenone effect in DM-free patients with - eGFR of 25-60 ml/min x 1.73 m^2 & UACR of 200-500 mg/g or - eGFR of 25-90 ml/min x 1.73 m^2 & UACR of 500-3500 mg/g #CKD Finerenone in Persons with Chronic Kidney Disease without Diabetes | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

#esaxerenone #DKD non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor blocker esaxerenone reduces glomerular hyperfiltration and albuminuria academic.oup.com/ndt/article/...

1/9 🚨 BREAKING OUT OF STEALTH MODE 🚨 Multivariate GWAS in Genomic SEM now runs on a laptop! New preprint + package update: a closed-form analytic solution makes multivariate GWAS ~800× faster, cutting runtimes from hours on HPC clusters to minutes on a personal computer.