Dr. rer. nat. Ronja Foraita

• Graphische Modelle zur Modellierung und Analyse von Abhängigkeitsstrukturen
• Genetische Epidemiologie

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie (DGEpi)
• Deutsche Region der Internationalen Biometrischen Gesellschaft (IBS-DR)

• Einflussfaktoren auf das Ernährungsverhalten europäischer Kinder, Jugendlicher und ihrer Eltern - I.Family-Studie
• Standards und Werkzeuge zur Beurteilung der Datenqualität in komplexen epidemiologischen Studien

Ausgewählte BIPS-Veröffentlichungen

• Zeitschriftenartikel mit 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

• Buchbeiträge

• 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

• Vorträge bei wissenschaftlichen Tagungen

• 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.

• Weitere Publikationen

• 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"