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Giovanna Fantoni

National Institute on AgingORCID 0000-0002-1920-587XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Bioinformatics· 1 Cell Biology· 1 Molecular Biology· 1 Systems Biology· 1

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Assay:proteomics· 4 Organism:human· 3 Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Research Focus:database / resource· 2 Research Focus:differential expression· 2 Approach:benchmark study· 1 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1

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Julián CandiaiD· 4 shared Luigi FerrucciiD· 4 shared Francheska Delgado‐PerazaiD· 3 shared Nader Shehadeh· 3 shared Ruin MoaddeliD· 3 shared Keenan A. WalkeriD· 2 shared Toshiko Tanaka· 2 shared Toshiko TanakaiD· 2 shared

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The blood proteome predicts the impact of circulating factors on age-related mitochondrial health

Stephanie Heimler, Jaclyn Bergstrom, Nina Sun, Toshiko Tanaka, Ann Zenobia Moore, Julián Candia, Brian H. Chen, Qu Tian, Arsun Bektas, Giovanna Fantoni, Christopher Dunn, Mary Kaileh, Ranjan Sen, Luigi Ferrucci, Anthony J. A. Molina

The paper develops a proteomic signature, MitoAge, that predicts age-related mitochondrial health based on circulating factors in serum.

npj Aging · Jul 24, 2026Peer-reviewedCell Biology

SomaModules: a pathway enrichment approach tailored to SomaScan data

Julián Candia, Giovanna Fantoni, Francheska Delgado‐Peraza, Nader Shehadeh, Toshiko Tanaka, Ruin Moaddel, Keenan A. Walker, Luigi Ferrucci

This paper introduces SomaModules, a pathway enrichment approach for SomaScan data, showing improved enrichment compared to original gene sets in Alzheimer's Disease and mitochondrial pathway analyses.

Journal of Proteome Research · Aug 11, 2025Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

Effects of in vitro hemolysis and repeated freeze-thaw cycles in protein abundance quantification using the SomaScan and Olink assays

Julián Candia, Giovanna Fantoni, Ruin Moaddel, Francheska Delgado‐Peraza, Nader Shehadeh, Toshiko Tanaka, Luigi Ferrucci

This study evaluates how in vitro hemolysis and freeze-thaw cycles affect protein abundance measurements in SomaScan and Olink assays, identifying affected analytes and proposing quality control measures.

Journal of Proteome Research · Apr 18, 2025Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology

Variability of 7K and 11K SomaScan plasma proteomics assays

Julián Candia, Giovanna Fantoni, Francheska Delgado‐Peraza, Nader Shehadeh, Toshiko Tanaka, Ruin Moaddel, Keenan A. Walker, Luigi Ferrucci

Across Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging replicates, fully normalized SomaScan 11K has median inter-plate coefficient of variation 5% (7K: 4.5%), intra-plate 3%, 7K inter-batch 8%.

Journal of Proteome Research · Oct 30, 2024Peer-reviewedSystems Biology✦ In-depth digest