Federico Murgia
Bioinformatician
Federico is a bioinformatician with longstanding experience in bioinformatics, genetics and genetic epidemiology.
After a degree in biological sciences from the University of Cagliari and a postgraduate research degree in bioinformatics applied to personalised medicine, Federico worked for several years as a biostatistician and bioinformatician for public and private organisations. He focused his research activity on the application of genetic and genomic methods to study complex traits in both general and genetically isolated populations.
He has extensive experience in the processing of large-scale human genetic datasets, the analysis of exome/whole sequencing data, GWAS, functional annotation, development of automated pipelines and data visualisation.
He joined CTSU in 2018, where he's involved in discovery and in-depth exploration of genomic predictors for vascular disease and its risk factors, working on a wealth of projects related CTSU's vascular mega-trials, biobanks and large studies.
Recent publications
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Genome-wide scans of myopia in Pennsylvania Amish families reveal significant linkage to 12q15, 8q21.3 and 5p15.33.
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Musolf AM. et al, (2019), Human genetics, 138, 339 - 354
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Exome genotyping and linkage analysis identifies two novel linked regions and replicates two others for myopia in Ashkenazi Jewish families.
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Simpson CL. et al, (2019), BMC medical genetics, 20
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Effects of smoking status, history and intensity on heart rate variability in the general population: The CHRIS study.
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Murgia F. et al, (2019), PLoS One, 14
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Myopia in Chinese families shows linkage to 10q26.13.
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Musolf AM. et al, (2018), Molecular vision, 24, 29 - 42
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Genome-wide meta-analysis associates HLA-DQA1/DRB1 and LPA and lifestyle factors with human longevity.
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Joshi PK. et al, (2017), Nat Commun, 8