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)

Whole genome sequence-based association analysis of African American individuals with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
(2024 Dec 29)
medRxiv
Li R, Gagliano Taliun SA, Liao K, Flickinger M, Sobell JL, Genovese G, Locke AE, Chiu RR, LeFaive J, Martins T, Chapman S, Neumann A, Handsaker RE, Arnett DK, Barnes KC, Boerwinkle E, Braff D, Cade BE, Fornage M, Gibbs RA, Hoth KF, Hou L, Kooperberg C, Loos RJF, Metcalf GA, Montgomery CG, Morrison AC, Qin ZS, Redline S, Reiner AP, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Taylor KD, Viaud-Martinez KA, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, Genomic Psychiatry Cohort investigators, Bigdeli TB, Gabriel S, Zollner S, Smith AV, Abecasis G, McCarroll S, Pato MT, Pato CN, Boehnke M, Knowles J, Kang HM, Ophoff RA, Ernst J, Scott LJ

Alterations of T Cell Subsets Associated with Sickle Cell Trait.
(2025)
Blood Genom Discov 9(1):
Reiner AP, Raffield LM, Ekunwe L, Olson NC, Auer PL, Doyle MF

Adjusting for principal components can induce collider bias in genome-wide association studies.
(2024 Dec)
PLoS Genet 20(12): e1011242
Grinde KE, Browning BL, Reiner AP, Thornton TA, Browning SR

Epigenome-wide Association Analysis of Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy Provides Insight into Molecular Mechanisms of Disease.
(2024 Dec 8)
medRxiv
Lai M, Kim K, Zheng Y, Castellani CA, Ratliff SM, Wang M, Liu X, Haessler J, Huan T, Bielak LF, Zhao W, Joehanes R, Ma J, Guo X, Manson JE, Grove ML, Bressler J, Taylor KD, Lappalainen T, Kasela S, Blackwell TW, Lake NJ, Faul JD, Ferrier KR, Hou L, Kooperberg C, Reiner AP, Zhang K, Peyser PA, Fornage M, Boerwinkle E, Raffield LM, Carson AP, Rich SS, Liu Y, Levy D, Rotter JI, Smith JA, Arking DE, Liu C, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium

Integrating Whole Genome and Transcriptome Sequencing to Characterize the Genetic Architecture of Isoform Variation and its Implications for Health and Disease.
(2024 Dec 6)
medRxiv
Liu C, Joehanes R, Ma J, Xie J, Yang J, Wang M, Huan T, Hwang SJ, Wen J, Sun Q, Cumhur DY, Heard-Costa NL, Orchard P, Carson AP, Raffield LM, Reiner A, Li Y, O'Connor G, Murabito JM, Munson P, Levy D

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