Chloe Sarnowski

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About

I am a researcher in Genetic Epidemiology / Statistical Genetics with a diverse background leveraging biology, bioinformatics and statistical genetics to study complex human traits. My Ph.D. thesis focused on complex mechanisms (such as epigenetics and gene-by-environment interactions) in genetic association studies, with an application to asthma. During the 5 years of my postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Biostatistics at Boston University School of Public Health, my research has spanned multiple disease areas applying statistical genetics to type 2 diabetes and glycemic traits, reproductive aging, and neurogenetics. Through my research experience, I have specialized in the identification of risk factors (genetic and environmental) for complex human traits. I am particularly interested in continuing working at the intersection between type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. My research interests include a better characterization of: 1) the biological mechanisms underlying complex human traits (through the integration of genetics with other types of 'omics' data), and 2) the genetic architecture of complex human traits in ancestrally diverse populations. This approach has the potential to lead to the development of preventive and therapeutic interventions to reduce the health burden of common human diseases and ethnic health disparities.

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Center Affiliation

Human Genetics Center

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Research Interests

• Big Data/Data Science
• Biostatistics
• Cardiovascular and Chronic Diseases
• Epidemiology
• Genetics and -omics
• Women's Health