Faculty

Alexander Reiner

Research Professor, Epidemiology

206-667-2710

Education

MD Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1984
MSc Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2001

Contact

206-667-2710

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Box 358080
WHI Clinical Coordinating Ctr / Public Health Sciences
M3-A4
Seattle, WA

Research Interests

Genetic epidemiology of atherosclerotic, thrombotic and cardiovascular disease; population biology; genomics

Recent Publications (PubMed)

Time-to-Event Genome-Wide Association Study for Incident Cardiovascular Disease in People With Type 2 Diabetes.
(2024 Apr 23)
Diabetes Care
Kwak SH, Hernandez-Cancela RB, DiCorpo DA, Condon DE, Merino J, Wu P, Brody JA, Yao J, Guo X, Ahmadizar F, Meyer M, Sincan M, Mercader JM, Lee S, Haessler J, Vy HMT, Lin Z, Armstrong ND, Gu S, Tsao NL, Lange LA, Wang N, Wiggins KL, Trompet S, Liu S, Loos RJF, Judy R, Schroeder PH, Hasbani NR, Bos MM, Morrison AC, Jackson RD, Reiner AP, Manson JE, Chaudhary NS, Carmichael LK, Chen YI, Taylor KD, Ghanbari M, van Meurs J, Pitsillides AN, Psaty BM, Noordam R, Do R, Park KS, Jukema JW, Kavousi M, Correa A, Rich SS, Damrauer SM, Hajek C, Cho NH, Irvin MR, Pankow JS, Nadkarni GN, Sladek R, Goodarzi MO, Florez JC, Chasman DI, Heckbert SR, Kooperberg C, Dupuis J, Malhotra R, de Vries PS, Liu CT, Rotter JI, Meigs JB, Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium

MagicalRsq-X: A cross-cohort transferable genotype imputation quality metric.
(2024 Apr 9)
Am J Hum Genet
Sun Q, Yang Y, Rosen JD, Chen J, Li X, Guan W, Jiang MZ, Wen J, Pace RG, Blackman SM, Bamshad MJ, Gibson RL, Cutting GR, O'Neal WK, Knowles MR, Kooperberg C, Reiner AP, Raffield LM, Carson AP, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Loos RJF, Kenny E, Jaeger BC, Min YI, Fuchsberger C, Li Y

Adjusting for principal components can induce spurious associations in genome-wide association studies in admixed populations.
(2024 Apr 3)
bioRxiv
Grinde KE, Browning BL, Reiner AP, Thornton TA, Browning SR

Radon Exposure and Incident Stroke Risk in the Women's Health Initiative.
(2024 Feb 27)
Neurology 102(4): e209143
Buchheit SF, Collins JM, Anthony KM, Love SM, Stewart JD, Gondalia R, Huang DY, Manson JE, Reiner AP, Schwartz GG, Vitolins MZ, Schumann RR, Smith RL, Whitsel EA

Mortality After Major Cardiovascular Events in Survivors of Childhood Cancer.
(2024 Feb 27)
J Am Coll Cardiol 83(8): 827-838
Bottinor W, Im C, Doody DR, Armenian SH, Arynchyn A, Hong B, Howell RM, Jacobs DR Jr, Ness KK, Oeffinger KC, Reiner AP, Armstrong GT, Yasui Y, Chow EJ

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