Edoardo Giacopuzzi
Research outline
The main focus of my research is the analysis of whole-genome and whole-exome sequencing data to understand how genetic variations affect human health.
After years being applied mainly for research purposes, now WGS and WES are quickly spreading also on clinical settings and in everyday life thanks to direct-to-costumer private services. New sequencing machines can now produce Tb of data in few days posing a great challenge for downstream data analysis.
As a bioinformatician, I try to address the constant need for new computational methods to extract useful information from the big amount of genomic data and identify trait-related variants. My interest is especially on addressing the huge gap in the interpretation of non-coding variants and other kinds of usually disregarded variants to improve the diagnostic yield of WES and WGS analysis.
Coming from a genetic/biological background, I want my results to be biologically meaningful as well as easily understandable.
Recent publications
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SVRare: discovering disease-causing structural variants in the 100K Genomes Project
Preprint
Yu J. et al, (2021)
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Estrogen-Like Effect of Mitotane Explained by Its Agonist Activity on Estrogen Receptor-α
Journal article
Rossini E. et al, (2021), Biomedicines, 9, 681 - 681
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Characterization of three sialidases from Danio rerio.
Journal article
Forcella M. et al, (2021), Biochimie, 187, 57 - 66
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Using data from the 100,000 Genomes Project to resolve conflicting interpretations of a recurrent TUBB2A mutation
Journal article
Ragoussis V. et al, (2021), Journal of Medical Genetics
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Alterations observed in the interferon α and β signaling pathway in MDD patients are marginally influenced by cis-acting alleles.
Journal article
Magri C. et al, (2021), Scientific reports, 11