
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.
Recent Publications
- Griswold, AJ, Rajabli, F, Gu, T, Arvizu, J, Golightly, CG, Whitehead, PL, Hamilton-Nelson, KL, Adams, LD, Sanchez, JJ, Mena, PR et al.. Generalizability of tau and amyloid plasma biomarkers in Alzheimer's disease cohorts of diverse genetic ancestries. Alzheimers Dement 2025; 21 (3): e14367. PubMed PMID:40133765 PubMed Central PMC11936763.
- Phillips, JM, Dumitrescu, LC, Archer, DB, Regelson, AN, Mukherjee, S, Lee, ML, Choi, SE, Scollard, P, Trittschuh, EH, Kukull, WA et al.. Novel modelling approaches to elucidate the genetic architecture of resilience to Alzheimer's disease. Brain 2025; : . PubMed PMID:40111762 .
- 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 APOE genotype and cognitive resilience in SuperAgers. medRxiv 2025; : . PubMed PMID:39830268 PubMed Central PMC11741496.
- Main, LR, Song, YE, Lynn, A, Laux, RA, Miskimen, KL, Osterman, MD, Cuccaro, ML, Ogrocki, PK, Lerner, AJ, Vance, JM et al.. Examination of MGMT as a risk gene for dementia in the Amish. Alzheimers Dement 2025; 21 (1): e14356. PubMed PMID:39711484 PubMed Central PMC11782184.
- Leung, YY, Lee, WP, Kuzma, AB, Nicaretta, H, Valladares, O, Gangadharan, P, Qu, L, Zhao, Y, Ren, Y, Cheng, PL et al.. Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project Release 4 Whole Genome Sequencing Dataset. medRxiv 2024; : . PubMed PMID:39677464 PubMed Central PMC11643159.
- Gorman, BR, Voloudakis, G, Igo, RP Jr, Kinzy, T, Halladay, CW, Bigdeli, TB, Zeng, B, Venkatesh, S, Cooke Bailey, JN, Crawford, DC et al.. Genome-wide association analyses identify distinct genetic architectures for age-related macular degeneration across ancestries. Nat Genet 2024; 56 (12): 2659-2671. PubMed PMID:39623103 .
- Bertholim-Nasciben, L, Nuytemans, K, Van Booven, D, Rajabli, F, Moura, S, Ramirez, AM, Dykxhoorn, DM, Wang, L, Scott, WK, Davis, DA et al.. African origin haplotype protective for Alzheimer's disease in APOEε4 carriers: exploring potential mechanisms. bioRxiv 2024; : . PubMed PMID:39484566 PubMed Central PMC11527192.
- Cruz-González, S, Gu, E, Gomez, L, Mews, M, Vance, JM, Cuccaro, ML, Cornejo-Olivas, MR, Feliciano-Astacio, BE, Byrd, GS, Haines, JL et al.. Methylation Clocks Do Not Predict Age or Alzheimer's Disease Risk Across Genetically Admixed Individuals. bioRxiv 2024; : . PubMed PMID:39464059 PubMed Central PMC11507840.
- Tong, T, Zhu, C, Farrell, JJ, Khurshid, Z, Alzheimer’s Disease Sequencing Project, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Martin, ER, Pericak-Vance, MA, Wang, LS, Bush, WS, Schellenberg, GD et al.. Blood-derived mitochondrial DNA copy number is associated with Alzheimer disease, Alzheimer-related biomarkers and serum metabolites. Alzheimers Res Ther 2024; 16 (1): 234. PubMed PMID:39444005 PubMed Central PMC11515778.
- Lee, WP, Choi, SH, Shea, MG, Cheng, PL, Dombroski, BA, Pitsillides, AN, Heard-Costa, NL, Wang, H, Bulekova, K, Kuzma, AB et al.. Association of common and rare variants with Alzheimer's disease in more than 13,000 diverse individuals with whole-genome sequencing from the Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project. Alzheimers Dement 2024; 20 (12): 8470-8483. PubMed PMID:39428839 PubMed Central PMC11667527.