JONATHAN HAINES, PHD

Director

Jonathan Haines, PhD, is a genetic epi­demi­ol­o­gist, Mary W. Shel­don M.D. Pro­fes­sor of Genomic Sci­ences, Chair of Depart­ment of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, and Direc­tor of the Insti­tute for Com­pu­ta­tional Biol­ogy. Dr. Haines has exten­sive expe­ri­ence in all aspects of genetic epi­demi­ol­ogy with a par­tic­u­lar focus on data ana­lyt­ics. He has applied his exper­tise to numer­ous neu­ro­log­i­cal and oph­thal­mo­log­i­cal dis­or­ders hav­ing located and iden­ti­fied over 20 causal and 200 asso­ci­ated loci. His inter­ests are in adapt­ing and apply­ing sta­tis­ti­cal com­pu­ta­tional meth­ods to bio­med­ical big data.

Affiliations

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Recent Publications

  1. Dorfsman, DA, Cai, D, Hamilton-Nelson, KL, Adams, LD, Mena, PR, Rodriguez, VC, Sanchez, JJ, Valladares, GS, Lopez, M, Whitehead, PL et al.. Educational attainment is associated with reduced functional decline in Puerto Ricans with elevated pTau181. J Alzheimers Dis 2026; : 13872877261415933. PubMed PMID:41660940 .
  2. Cruz, LA, Liu, S, Miskimen, KL, Cooke Bailey, JN, Kinzy, T, Song, YE, Laux, RA, Miron, P, Ogrocki, PK, Lerner, AJ et al.. Evidence for reduced somatic T-cell receptor sequence diversity profiles among Midwestern Amish in an aging cohort study. medRxiv 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41646721 PubMed Central PMC12870599.
  3. Chung, YC, Alhelaly, M, Nittala, MG, Velaga, SB, He, Y, Haines, JL, Pericak-Vance, MA, Stambolian, D, Sadda, SR. Optical Coherence Tomography Risk Factors for Progression to Late-Stage Age-related Macular Degeneration in the Amish Eye Study. Ophthalmol Retina 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41577331 .
  4. Durodoye, RO, Ciesielski, TH, Benchek, P, Bartlett, J, Zhu, X, Liu, S, Naj, A, Kunkle, B, Schellenberg, GD, Mayeux, R et al.. Deviations from additivity in APOE4-mediated late-onset Alzheimer's disease risk across races and ethnicities. Hum Genet 2026; 145 (1): 16. PubMed PMID:41569459 PubMed Central PMC12827419.
  5. Durant, A, Mukherjee, S, Lee, ML, Choi, SE, Scollard, P, Klinedinst, BS, Trittschuh, EH, Mez, J, Farrer, LA, Gifford, KA et al.. Evaluating the association of apolipoprotein E genotype and cognitive resilience in SuperAgers. Alzheimers Dement 2026; 22 (1): e71024. PubMed PMID:41542929 PubMed Central PMC12809718.
  6. Khurshid, Z, Farrell, JJ, Tong, T, Zhu, C, Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project, Martin, ER, Bush, W, Pericak-Vance, MA, Wang, LS, Schellenberg, G et al.. Multi-ancestry exome-wide study identifies variants associated with Alzheimer's disease protection. J Alzheimers Dis 2026; 109 (3): 1274-1286. PubMed PMID:41428483 .
  7. Ray, NR, Kurup, J, Kumar, A, Rajabli, F, Wang, L, Xu, W, Jin, F, Yilmaz, E, Kizil, C, Bertholim-Nasciben, L et al.. Local genetic correlation analysis of Alzheimer's disease and stroke implicates PHLPP1 as a shared locus in individuals of African ancestry. medRxiv 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41404293 PubMed Central PMC12704622.
  8. Andersen, OM, de Waal, MWJ, Monti, G, Tesi, N, Jensen, AMG, de Geus, C, van Spaendonk, R, Vogel, M, Ahmad, S, Amin, N et al.. Domain mapping of disease mutations reveals pathogenic SORL1 variants in Alzheimer's disease. Mol Neurodegener 2025; 20 (1): 122. PubMed PMID:41327266 PubMed Central PMC12667055.
  9. Sun, X, Mews, M, Wheeler, NR, Benchek, P, Gu, T, Gomez, L, Ray, N, Reitz, C, Naj, AC, Below, JE et al.. Multi-ancestry Transcriptome-Wide Association Study Reveals Shared and Population-Specific Genetic Effects in Alzheimer's Disease. bioRxiv 2025; : . PubMed PMID:41279621 PubMed Central PMC12637479.
  10. Dacey, R, Hou, L, Gurnani, A, Han, X, Paller-Moore, MR, Chung, J, Durape, S, Rosenthaler, M, Uretsky, M, Abdolmohammadi, B et al.. Alzheimer's disease multi-ancestry genome-wide interaction and stratified study with smoking. Alzheimers Dement 2025; 21 (11): e70922. PubMed PMID:41268768 PubMed Central PMC12635870.
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