Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
I am a biostatistical researcher focusing on genetic and omics analyses of diverse and complex populations. I did my PhD in Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and graduated at 2012. Then, I continued as a postdoctoral fellow there, and later became a research scientist at the Genetic Analysis Center at the University of Washington in Seattle. At UW, I worked on genetic association analyses in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos, and on analysis of whole genome sequencing data from the NHLBI's Trans-Omics in Precision Medicine initiative. In late 2017 I moved to BWH and Harvard University, where I continue to develop and implement methodology for genetic and omics analyses of sleep , cognitive, cardiopulmonary, and metabolic phenotypes, with the goal of understanding the genetic basis of such phenotypes, and how environmental exposures modify the pathways from genotypes to phenotypes. I extensively collaborate with minority population studies such as the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos, the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, the Jackson Heart Study, and more.
BSc, 03/2008, Mathematics
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
PhD, 05/2012, Biostatistics
Harvard University
Sofer T, Kurniansyah N, Aguet F, Ardlie K, Durda P, Nickerson DA, Smith JD, Liu Y, Gharib SA, Redline S, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Taylor KD.
Brief Bioinform. 2021 Nov 05. 22(6). PMID: 34015820
Justice AE, Young K, Gogarten SM, Sofer T, Graff M, Love SAM, Wang Y, Klimentidis YC, Cruz M, Guo X, Hartwig F, Petty L, Yao J, Allison MA, Below JE, Buchanan TA, Chen YI, Goodarzi MO, Hanis C, Highland HM, Hsueh WA, Ipp E, Parra E, Palmas W, Raffel LJ, Rotter JI, Tan J, Taylor KD, Valladares A, Xiang AH, Sánchez-Johnsen L, Isasi CR, North KE.
Hum Mol Genet. 2021 Nov 01. 30(22):2190-2204. PMID: 34165540
Sofer T, Goodman MO, Bertisch SM, Redline S.
Eur Heart J. 2021 09 07. 42(34):3358-3360. PMID: 33993286
Cade BE, Lee J, Sofer T, Wang H, Zhang M, Chen H, Gharib SA, Gottlieb DJ, Guo X, Lane JM, Liang J, Lin X, Mei H, Patel SR, Purcell SM, Saxena R, Shah NA, Evans DS, Hanis CL, Hillman DR, Mukherjee S, Palmer LJ, Stone KL, Tranah GJ, Abecasis GR, Boerwinkle EA, Correa A, Cupples LA, Kaplan RC, Nickerson DA, North KE, Psaty BM, Rotter JI, Rich SS, Tracy RP, Vasan RS, Wilson JG, Zhu X, Redline S.
Genome Med. 2021 Aug 26. 13(1):136. PMID: 34446064
Johnson DA, Jackson CL, Guo N, Sofer T, Laden F, Redline S.
Sleep. 2021 Jul 20. PMID: 34283244
Scannell Bryan M, Sofer T, Afshar M, Mossavar-Rahmani Y, Hosgood HD, Punjabi NM, Zeng D, Daviglus ML, Argos M.
Sci Rep. 2021 06 29. 11(1):13470. PMID: 34188144
Sarnowski C, Cousminer DL, Franceschini N, Raffield LM, Jia G, Fernández-Rhodes L, Grant SFA, Hakonarson H, Lange LA, Long J, Sofer T, Tao R, Wallace RB, Wong Q, Zirpoli G, Boerwinkle E, Bradfield JP, Correa A, Kooperberg CL, North KE, Palmer JR, Zemel BS, Zheng W, Murabito JM, Lunetta KL.
Hum Reprod. 2021 06 18. 36(7):1999-2010. PMID: 34021356
Azarbarzin A, Sands SA, Younes M, Taranto-Montemurro L, Sofer T, Vena D, Alex RM, Kim SW, Gottlieb DJ, White DP, Redline S, Wellman A.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2021 06 15. 203(12):1546-1555. PMID: 33406013
Li R, Rueschman M, Gottlieb DJ, Redline S, Sofer T.
EBioMedicine. 2021 Jun. 68:103433. PMID: 34144485
Sofer T, Lee J, Kurniansyah N, Jain D, Laurie CA, Gogarten SM, Conomos MP, Heavner B, Hu Y, Kooperberg C, Haessler J, Vasan RS, Cupples LA, Coombes BJ, Seyerle A, Gharib SA, Chen H, O'Connell JR, Zhang M, Gottlieb DJ, Psaty BM, Longstreth WT, Rotter JI, Taylor KD, Rich SS, Guo X, Boerwinkle E, Morrison AC, Pankow JS, Johnson AD, Pankratz N, Reiner AP, Redline S, Smith NL, Rice KM, Schifano ED.
HGG Adv. 2021 Jul 08. 2(3). PMID: 34337551