Dr. Ronja Foraita
- Department: Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
- Unit: Statistical Modeling of Primary Data
- since 07/2024 Head of "Statistical Modelling of Primary Data"
- 2010-2024 Head of "Statistical Methods for Genetics and Molecular Epidemiology" unit
- 2008 Ph.D. degree in natural sciences, University of Bremen
- since 2004 Research associate at the BIPS
- 2001-2004 Statistician at the Institute of Statistics, University of Bremen
- 2001 Diploma in Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
- Graphical models for modeling and analyzing association structures
- Genetic epidemiology
Selected BIPS-Publications
Articles with peer review
- Dijkstra L, Hanke M, Koenen N, Foraita R. An alternating direction method of multipliers algorithm for the weighted fused LASSO signal approximator. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. 2025;95(14):2979-2997.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00949655.2025.2511929 - Foraita R, Witte J, Börnhorst C, Gwozdz W, Pala V, Lissner L, Lauria F, Reisch LA, Molnár D, De Henauw S, Moreno LA, Veidebaum T, Tornaritis M, Pigeot I, Didelez V. A longitudinal causal graph analysis investigating modifiable risk factors and obesity in a European cohort of children and adolescents. Scientific Reports. 2024;14:6822.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-56721-y - Hanke M, Dijkstra L, Foraita R, Didelez V. Variable selection in linear regression models: Choosing the best subset is not always the best choice. Biometrical Journal. 2024;66(1):2200209.
https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.202200209 - Hüls A, Wright MN, Bogl L-H, Kaprio J, Lissner L, Molnár D, Moreno LA, De Henauw S, Siani A, Veidebaum T, Ahrens W, Pigeot I, Foraita R. Polygenic risk for obesity and its interaction with lifestyle and sociodemographic factors in European children and adolescents. International Journal of Obesity. 2021;45(6):1321-1330.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41366-021-00795-5 - Dijkstra L, Garling M, Foraita R, Pigeot I. Adverse drug reaction or innocent bystander? A systematic comparison of statistical discovery methods for spontaneous reporting systems. Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety. 2020;29(4):396-403.
https://doi.org/10.1002/pds.4970 - Foraita R, Friemel J, Günther K, Behrens T, Bullerdiek J, Nimzyk R, Ahrens W, Didelez V. Causal discovery of gene regulation with incomplete data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society). 2020;183(4):1747-1775.
https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12565 - Gianfagna F, Grippi C, Ahrens W, Bailey ME, Börnhorst C, De Henauw S, Foraita R, Koni AC, Krogh V, Mårild S, Molnár D, Moreno LA, Pitsiladis Y, Russo P, Siani A, Tornaritis M, Veidebaum T, Iacoviello L. The role of neuromedin U in adiposity regulation. Haplotype analysis in European children from the IDEFICS cohort. PLOS ONE. 2017;12(2):e0172698.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0172698 - Günther K, Foraita R, Friemel J, Günther F, Bullerdiek J, Nimzyk R, Markowski DN, Behrens T, Ahrens W. The stem cell factor HMGA2 is expressed in non-HPV-associated head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and predicts patient survival of distinct subsites. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. 2017;26(2):197-205.
https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-16-0492
https://repository.publisso.de/resource/frl:6433163 - Hanke M, Foraita R. Clone temporal centrality measures for incomplete sequences of graph snapshots. BMC Bioinformatics. 2017;18:261.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12859-017-1677-x - Foraita R, Bammann K, Pigeot I. Modeling gene-gene interaction using graphical chain models. Human Heredity. 2008;65(1):47-56.
https://doi.org/10.1159/000106061 Book chapters
- Foraita R, Spallek J, Zeeb H. Causal directed acyclic graphs. New York, USA. 2026.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6625-3_65-1 Presentations at scientific meetings/conferences
- Foraita R, Günther F, Pigeot I, on behalf of the IDEFICS consortium. Does the FTO gene interact with the socioeconomic status on obesity development of young European children? Results from the IDEFICS study. Gothenburg, Sweden. 2016.
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- Best Poster Award
Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik (DAGStat) (2022)
Poster "A longitudinal causal graph analysis investigating modifiable risk factors and obesity in a European cohort of children and adolescents"
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