WILLIAM S. BUSH, PHD, MS

Associate Director for Bioinformatics Research

William S. Bush, PhD, MS, is Associate Professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences and the Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Bush received his PhD at Vanderbilt University in Human Genetics in 2008 and then continued as a post-doctoral fellow in the Neurogenomics Training Program at Vanderbilt. Dr. Bush was recently named a Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation Scholar. As a human geneticist and bioinformatician, Dr. Bush’s research interests include understanding the functional impact of genetic variation, developing statistical and bioinformatics approaches for integrating functional genomics knowledge into genetic analysis, and the use of electronic medical records for translational research.

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Featured Publications

Is Isolated Low High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol a Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor? New Insights From the Framingham Offspring Study.

Bartlett J, Predazzi IM, Williams SM, Bush WS, Kim Y, Havas S, Toth PP, Fazio S, Miller M,. Although the inverse association between high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) and risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been long established, it remains unclear whether low HDL-C remains a CVD risk factor when levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) […]

The phenotypic legacy of admixture between modern humans and Neandertals.

Simonti CN, Vernot B, Bastarache L, Bottinger E, Carrell DS, Chisholm RL, Crosslin DR, Hebbring SJ, Jarvik GP, Kullo IJ, Li R, Pathak J, Ritchie MD, Roden DM, Verma SS, Tromp G, Prato JD, Bush WS, Akey JM, Denny JC, Capra JA,. Many modern human genomes retain DNA inherited from interbreeding with archaic hominins, such […]

Discovery of gene-gene interactions across multiple independent data sets of late onset Alzheimer disease from the Alzheimer Disease Genetics Consortium.

Hohman TJ, Bush WS, Jiang L, Brown-Gentry KD, Torstenson ES, Dudek SM, Mukherjee S, Naj A, Kunkle BW, Ritchie MD, Martin ER, Schellenberg GD, Mayeux R, Farrer LA, Pericak-Vance MA, Haines JL, Thornton-Wells TA, ,. Late-onset Alzheimer disease (AD) has a complex genetic etiology, involving locus heterogeneity, polygenic inheritance, and gene-gene interactions; however, the investigation […]

Recent Publications

  1. Griswold, AJ, Rajabli, F, Gu, T, Arvizu, J, Golightly, CG, Whitehead, PL, Hamilton-Nelson, KL, Adams, LD, Sanchez, JJ, Mena, PR et al.. Generalizability of Tau and Amyloid Plasma Biomarkers in Alzheimer's Disease Cohorts of Diverse Genetic Ancestries. medRxiv 2024; : . PubMed PMID:38645114 PubMed Central PMC11030471.
  2. Zhang, X, Gomez, L, Below, JE, Naj, AC, Martin, ER, Kunkle, BW, Bush, WS. An X Chromosome Transcriptome Wide Association Study Implicates ARMCX6 in Alzheimer's Disease. J Alzheimers Dis 2024; 98 (3): 1053-1067. PubMed PMID:38489177 .
  3. Guo, Z, Duan, D, Tang, W, Zhu, J, Bush, WS, Zhang, L, Zhu, X, Jin, F, Feng, H. magpie: A power evaluation method for differential RNA methylation analysis in N6-methyladenosine sequencing. PLoS Comput Biol 2024; 20 (2): e1011875. PubMed PMID:38346081 PubMed Central PMC10890765.
  4. Leung, YY, Naj, AC, Chou, YF, Valladares, O, Schmidt, M, Hamilton-Nelson, K, Wheeler, N, Lin, H, Gangadharan, P, Qu, L et al.. Human whole-exome genotype data for Alzheimer's disease. Nat Commun 2024; 15 (1): 684. PubMed PMID:38263370 PubMed Central PMC10805795.
  5. Archer, DB, Eissman, JM, Mukherjee, S, Lee, ML, Choi, SE, Scollard, P, Trittschuh, EH, Mez, JB, Bush, WS, Kunkle, BW et al.. Longitudinal change in memory performance as a strong endophenotype for Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimers Dement 2024; 20 (2): 1268-1283. PubMed PMID:37985223 PubMed Central PMC10896586.
  6. Eissman, JM, Archer, DB, Mukherjee, S, Lee, ML, Choi, SE, Scollard, P, Trittschuh, EH, Mez, JB, Bush, WS, Kunkle, BW et al.. Sex-specific genetic architecture of late-life memory performance. Alzheimers Dement 2024; 20 (2): 1250-1267. PubMed PMID:37984853 PubMed Central PMC10917043.
  7. Wang, A, Shen, J, Rodriguez, AA, Saunders, EJ, Chen, F, Janivara, R, Darst, BF, Sheng, X, Xu, Y, Chou, AJ et al.. Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants. Nat Genet 2023; 55 (12): 2065-2074. PubMed PMID:37945903 PubMed Central PMC10841479.
  8. Greenfest-Allen, E, Valladares, O, Kuksa, PP, Gangadharan, P, Lee, WP, Cifello, J, Katanic, Z, Kuzma, AB, Wheeler, N, Bush, WS et al.. NIAGADS Alzheimer's GenomicsDB: A resource for exploring Alzheimer's disease genetic and genomic knowledge. Alzheimers Dement 2024; 20 (2): 1123-1136. PubMed PMID:37881831 PubMed Central PMC10916966.
  9. Lee, WP, Choi, SH, Shea, MG, Cheng, PL, Dombroski, BA, Pitsillides, AN, Heard-Costa, NL, Wang, H, Bulekova, K, Kuzma, AB et al.. Association of Common and Rare Variants with Alzheimer's Disease in over 13,000 Diverse Individuals with Whole-Genome Sequencing from the Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project. medRxiv 2023; : . PubMed PMID:37693521 PubMed Central PMC10491367.
  10. Tejeda, M, Farrell, J, Zhu, C, Wetzler, L, Lunetta, KL, Bush, WS, Martin, ER, Wang, LS, Schellenberg, GD, Pericak-Vance, MA et al.. DNA from multiple viral species is associated with Alzheimer's disease risk. Alzheimers Dement 2024; 20 (1): 253-265. PubMed PMID:37578203 PubMed Central PMC10840621.
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