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Essi Viippola

Broad InstituteORCID 0000-0002-3699-4620Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:differential expression· 2 Organism:human· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1

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Sex-related signatures in the plasma proteome not attributable to XX and XY chromosomes and their impact on health and disease

Essi Viippola, Tuomo Hartonen, Meihui Zhu, Zhijian Yang, Ryuya Edahiro, Tomoko Nakanishi, Ao Lan, Masahiro Kanai, Nhi N.L. Nguyen, Tatiana Cajuso, Daniela Fusco, Chiara Caime, Kristina Zguro, Sebastian May-Wilson, M. Austin Argentieri, , Andrea Ganna

The paper introduces the Proteomic Sex Index (PSI), a continuous measure of plasma proteome alignment with chromosomal sex, showing its association with health and disease traits.

medRxiv · Oct 21, 2026 · PreprintGenetic & Genomic Medicine

Removing genetic effects on plasma proteins enhances their utility as disease biomarkers

Daniela Fusco, Zhijian Yang, Essi Viippola, Tatiana Cajuso, Andrea Corbetta, Chiara Caime, Jakob German, Martina Fu, M. Austin Argentieri, FinnGen, Tomoko Nakanishi, Zhiyu Yang, Andrea Ganna

The paper removes genetic effects from plasma proteins to enhance their utility as disease biomarkers, showing improved associations with diseases and environmental factors.

medRxiv · Oct 14, 2025 · PreprintGenetic & Genomic Medicine