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Madhusankha T
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PhD student in Human Genetics and Bioinformatics focusing on infectious diseases
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🔔Paper alert! Extremely excited to share a preprint from our lab! Spearheaded by @axel-schmidt.bsky.social, a super talented medical & computational geneticist, we studied latent Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection at population-scale.

Interested in how this works & what we found? Read along! 👇
July 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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evacschulte.bsky.social
Very excited to finally see this important #GWAS on #LongCOVID #PostCOVID out in @natgenet.nature.com !!! Wonderful team effort and way to see this through, Vilma, Tomoko, Sam, Hugo and Hanna !!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Genome-wide association study of long COVID - Nature Genetics
A genome-wide study by the Long COVID Host Genetics Initiative identifies an association between the FOXP4 locus and long COVID, implicating altered lung function in its pathophysiology.
www.nature.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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evacschulte.bsky.social
Happy to share our newest work on #covid19 #hostgenetics ! An analysis of >1000 whole genomes with @kuludwig.bsky.social and Axel Schmidt at University of Bonn and Uniklinik Bonn, the DeCOI consortium and many colleagues from around Germany & beyond. #plospathogens
journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
Systematic assessment of COVID-19 host genetics using whole genome sequencing data
Author summary After infection with SARS-CoV-2, symptoms vary widely. On average, individuals who are older, males and those with certain comorbidities tend to be more severely affected by COVID-19. A...
journals.plos.org
January 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM