Titles in pink are papers where I am first or last author. For a complete list, see Google Scholar.

Publications

Revisiting founder populations in an age of global biobanks. Caggiano C, Shemirani R, Kenny EE. Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, 2026. doi

Locus-specific gene-context interactions improve polygenic prediction. Fonseca R, Caggiano C, Costantino M, Dominguez O, Kenny EE, Dahl A. bioRxiv, 2026. doi

Recommendations for the ethical and accurate use of population descriptors: a trainee-led survey of early-career researchers. Sharma J, Maldonado B, Ungar RA, Adimoelja A, Flores JP, Gjorgjieva T, Jones K, Khan A, Xue D, Patel R, Caggiano C. bioRxiv, 2026. doi

Advancing precision health discovery in a genetically diverse health system. Haas R, … Caggiano C, … Boutros PC, Geschwind DH. Cell, 2026. doi

A spectral component approach leveraging identity-by-descent graphs to address recent population structure in genomic analysis. Shemirani R, Belbin GM, Cullina S, Caggiano C, Gignoux CR, Zaitlen N, Kenny EE. Genome Research, 2026. doi

Advancing methods for multi-ancestry genomics. Liou L, Caggiano C. Trends in Genetics, 2025. doi

Epigenetic profiles of tissue-informative CpGs inform ALS disease status and progression. Caggiano C, Morselli M, Qian X, … Pellegrini M, Garton FC, Zaitlen N. Genome Medicine, 2025. doi

Brain cell-type shifts in Alzheimer’s disease, autism, and schizophrenia interrogated using methylomics and genetics. Yap CX, Vo DD, Heffel MG, … Caggiano C, … Luo C, Gandal MJ. Science Advances, 2024. doi

Single-stranded pre-methylated 5mC adapters uncover the methylation profile of plasma ultrashort single-stranded cell-free DNA. Cheng JC, Swarup N, Morselli M, … Caggiano C, … Pellegrini M, Wong DTW. Nucleic Acids Research, 2024. doi

Cell-type deconvolution of bulk-blood RNA-seq reveals biological insights into neuropsychiatric disorders. Boltz T, Schwarz T, Bot M, Hou K, Caggiano C, … Ophoff RA. American Journal of Human Genetics, 2024. doi

Disease risk and healthcare utilization among ancestrally diverse groups in the Los Angeles region. Caggiano C, Boudaie A, Shemirani R, … Belbin G, Zaitlen N. Nature Medicine, 2023. doi

Leveraging genomic diversity for discovery in an electronic health record linked biobank: the UCLA ATLAS Community Health Initiative. Johnson R, Ding Y, Venkateswaran V, … Caggiano C, … Geschwind DH, Pasaniuc B. Genome Medicine, 2022. doi

Comprehensive cell-type decomposition of circulating cell-free DNA with CelFiE. Caggiano C, Celona B, Garton F, Mefford J, Black BL, Henderson R, Lomen-Hoerth C, Dahl A, Zaitlen N. Nature Communications, 2021. doi

Genome-wide study of the effect of blood collection tubes on the cell-free DNA methylome. Van Paemel R, De Koker A, Caggiano C, … De Preter K. Epigenetics, 2020. doi


Selected Talks

Thesis Defense, Los Angeles, California, June 2023

American Society of Human Genetics, Los Angeles, California, October 2022

Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics, Aussois, France, October 2019