Athanasios Kousathanas

Employment

• Genomics England Senior Genomic Data Scientist
  2020 - Present
• University of Lausanne Postdoc
  2018 - 2020
• Institut Pasteur Research fellow
  2016 - 2017
• University of Fribourg Postdoc
  2014 - 2015

Education

• University of Edinburgh Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
  2009 - 2013
• University of Crete Undergraduate thesis
  2009 - 2009
• University of Ioannina School of Sciences and Technology Bachelor
  2004 - 2009

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (24)

• Proteomics identify disease-associated variants in patients with rare disease undiagnosed after genome sequencing
  Science Translational Medicine 2026 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aeb1331
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• Common and rare variant analyses reveal genetic factors underlying idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and its shared aetiology with severe COVID-19
  eBioMedicine 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2025.106048
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• Whole genome sequence meta-analyses reveal common and rare genetic associations with critical COVID-19
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.11.19.25340573
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• Common and rare variant analyses reveal novel genetic factors underlying Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and shared aetiology with COVID-19
  2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.08.16.24312138
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• Whole-genome sequencing reveals host factors underlying critical COVID-19
  Athanasios Kousathanas, Erola Pairo‐Castineira, Konrad Rawlik +97 more
  Nature 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04576-6
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• Innate immune pathways act synergistically to constrain RNA virus evolution in Drosophila melanogaster
  Nature Ecology & Evolution 2022 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-022-01697-z
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• Probabilistic inference of the genetic architecture underlying functional enrichment of complex traits
  Nature Communications 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-27258-9
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• Whole genome sequencing identifies multiple loci for critical illness caused by COVID-19
  2021 DOI: 10.1101/2021.09.02.21262965
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• Innate immune pathways act synergistically to constrain RNA virus evolution in Drosophila melanogaster
  2021 DOI: 10.1101/2021.07.16.452470
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• Genomic architecture and prediction of censored time-to-event phenotypes with a Bayesian genome-wide analysis
  Nature Communications 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22538-w
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• Genetic mechanisms of critical illness in Covid-19.
  The GenOMICC Investigators, Erola Pairo‐Castineira, The ISARIC4C Investigators +69 more
  Nature 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-03065-y
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• Multi-method genome- and epigenome-wide studies of inflammatory protein levels in healthy older adults.
  Genome medicine 2020 DOI: 10.1186/s13073-020-00754-1
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• The demographic history and mutational load of African hunter-gatherers and farmers
  Nature Ecology & Evolution 2018 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0496-4
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• The Discovery of Wild Date Palms in Oman Reveals a Complex Domestication History Involving Centers in the Middle East and Africa.
  Current biology : CB 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.045
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• Inferring Heterozygosity from Ancient and Low Coverage Genomes.
  Genetics 2017 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.189985
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• Early Neolithic genomes from the eastern Fertile Crescent.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2016 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaf7943
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• Early farmers from across Europe directly descended from Neolithic Aegeans.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2016 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1523951113
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• Likelihood-Free Inference in High-Dimensional Models.
  Genetics 2016 DOI: 10.1534/genetics.116.187567
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• The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics' resources: focus on curated databases.
  SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Members
  Nucleic acids research 2016 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1310
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• Drosophila suzukii: the genetic footprint of a recent, worldwide invasion.
  Molecular biology and evolution 2014 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu246
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