Nancy L. Heard-Costa, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurology
Biography
Expertise includes: Data management – both phenotype and genetic in nature, including storage , maintenance, quality control; Genetic data cleaning – both in unrelated and related individuals; Pedigree creation, verification and maintenance; Forensic analysis of genetic samples – identification of incorrect, cryptic duplicate, and related subject; Statistical analysis -from univariate to multivariate and more complex models, including design, implementation and interpretation/conclusion; Genetic statistical analysis – linkage, association and meta-analysis, including design, implementation and interpretation/conclusion; and Human Medical Genetics theory and practice.
Other Positions
- Center Faculty Member, Framingham Heart Study, Framingham Heart Study
Websites
Education
- University of Alabama at Birmingham, PhD
- Boston University School of Public Health, MPH
- Ripon College, BA
Publications
- Published on 3/21/2024
Wang Y, Sarnowski C, Lin H, Pitsillides AN, Heard-Costa NL, Choi SH, Wang D, Bis JC, Blue EE, Boerwinkle E, De Jager PL, Fornage M, Wijsman EM, Seshadri S, Dupuis J, Peloso GM, DeStefano AL. Key variants via the Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project whole genome sequence data. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Mar 21. PMID: 38511601.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 3/1/2024
Zhang Y, Dron JS, Bellows BK, Khera AV, Liu J, Balte PP, Oelsner EC, Amr SS, Lebo MS, Nagy A, Peloso GM, Natarajan P, Rotter JI, Willer C, Boerwinkle E, Ballantyne CM, Lutsey PL, Fornage M, Lloyd-Jones DM, Hou L, Psaty BM, Bis JC, Floyd JS, Vasan RS, Heard-Costa NL, Carson AP, Hall ME, Rich SS, Guo X, Kazi DS, de Ferranti SD, Moran AE. Familial Hypercholesterolemia Variant and Cardiovascular Risk in Individuals With Elevated Cholesterol. JAMA Cardiol. 2024 Mar 01; 9(3):263-271. PMID: 38294787.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/28/2023
Hasbani NR, Westerman KE, Kwak SH, Chen H, Li X, Di Corpo D, Wessel J, Bis JC, Sarnowski C, Wu P, Bielak LF, Guo X, Heard-Costa N, Kinney GL, Mahaney MC, Montasser ME, Palmer ND, Raffield LM, Terry JG, Yanek LR, Bon J, Bowden DW, Brody JA, Duggirala R, Jacobs DR, Kalyani RR, Lange LA, Mitchell BD, Smith JA, Taylor KD, Carson AP, Curran JE, Fornage M, Freedman BI, Gabriel S, Gibbs RA, Gupta N, Kardia SLR, Kral BG, Momin Z, Newman AB, Post WS, Viaud-Martinez KA, Young KA, Becker LC, Bertoni AG, Blangero J, Carr JJ, Pratte K, Psaty BM, Rich SS, Wu JC, Malhotra R, Peyser PA, Morrison AC, Vasan RS, Lin X, Rotter JI, Meigs JB, Manning AK, de Vries PS. Type 2 Diabetes Modifies the Association of CAD Genomic Risk Variants With Subclinical Atherosclerosis. Circ Genom Precis Med. 2023 Dec; 16(6):e004176. PMID: 38014529.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 11/2/2023
Li X, Chen H, Selvaraj MS, Van Buren E, Zhou H, Wang Y, Sun R, McCaw ZR, Yu Z, Arnett DK, Bis JC, Blangero J, Boerwinkle E, Bowden DW, Brody JA, Cade BE, Carson AP, Carlson JC, Chami N, Chen YI, Curran JE, de Vries PS, Fornage M, Franceschini N, Freedman BI, Gu C, Heard-Costa NL, He J, Hou L, Hung YJ, Irvin MR, Kaplan RC, Kardia SLR, Kelly T, Konigsberg I, Kooperberg C, Kral BG, Li C, Loos RJF, Mahaney MC, Martin LW, Mathias RA, Minster RL, Mitchell BD, Montasser ME, Morrison AC, Palmer ND, Peyser PA, Psaty BM, Raffield LM, Redline S, Reiner AP, Rich SS, Sitlani CM, Smith JA, Taylor KD, Tiwari H, Vasan RS, Wang Z, Yanek LR, Yu B, Rice KM, Rotter JI, Peloso GM, Natarajan P, Li Z, Liu Z, Lin X. A statistical framework for powerful multi-trait rare variant analysis in large-scale whole-genome sequencing studies. bioRxiv. 2023 Nov 02. PMID: 37961350.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/27/2023
Sarnowski C, Huan T, Ma Y, Joehanes R, Beiser A, DeCarli CS, Heard-Costa NL, Levy D, Lin H, Liu CT, Liu C, Meigs JB, Satizabal CL, Florez JC, Hivert MF, Dupuis J, De Jager PL, Bennett DA, Seshadri S, Morrison AC. Multi-tissue epigenetic analysis identifies distinct associations underlying insulin resistance and Alzheimer's disease at CPT1A locus. Clin Epigenetics. 2023 Oct 27; 15(1):173. PMID: 37891690.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/25/2023
Wang D, Scalici A, Wang Y, Lin H, Pitsillides A, Heard-Costa N, Cruchaga C, Ziegemeier E, Bis JC, Fornage M, Boerwinkle E, De Jager PL, Wijsman E, Dupuis J, Renton AE, Seshadri S, Goate A, DeStefano AL, Peloso GM. Frequency of Variants in Mendelian Alzheimer's Disease Genes within the Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project (ADSP). medRxiv. 2023 Oct 25. PMID: 37961373.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 10/5/2023
Wang Y, Selvaraj MS, Li X, Li Z, Holdcraft JA, Arnett DK, Bis JC, Blangero J, Boerwinkle E, Bowden DW, Cade BE, Carlson JC, Carson AP, Chen YI, Curran JE, de Vries PS, Dutcher SK, Ellinor PT, Floyd JS, Fornage M, Freedman BI, Gabriel S, Germer S, Gibbs RA, Guo X, He J, Heard-Costa N, Hildalgo B, Hou L, Irvin MR, Joehanes R, Kaplan RC, Kardia SL, Kelly TN, Kim R, Kooperberg C, Kral BG, Levy D, Li C, Liu C, Lloyd-Jone D, Loos RJ, Mahaney MC, Martin LW, Mathias RA, Minster RL, Mitchell BD, Montasser ME, Morrison AC, Murabito JM, Naseri T, O'Connell JR, Palmer ND, Preuss MH, Psaty BM, Raffield LM, Rao DC, Redline S, Reiner AP, Rich SS, Ruepena MS, Sheu WH, Smith JA, Smith A, Tiwari HK, Tsai MY, Viaud-Martinez KA, Wang Z, Yanek LR, Zhao W, Rotter JI, Lin X, Natarajan P, Peloso GM. Rare variants in long non-coding RNAs are associated with blood lipid levels in the TOPMed whole-genome sequencing study. Am J Hum Genet. 2023 Oct 05; 110(10):1704-1717. PMID: 37802043.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/30/2023
Hong YS, Battle SL, Shi W, Puiu D, Pillalamarri V, Xie J, Pankratz N, Lake NJ, Lek M, Rotter JI, Rich SS, Kooperberg C, Reiner AP, Auer PL, Heard-Costa N, Liu C, Lai M, Murabito JM, Levy D, Grove ML, Alonso A, Gibbs R, Dugan-Perez S, Gondek LP, Guallar E, Arking DE. Deleterious heteroplasmic mitochondrial mutations are associated with an increased risk of overall and cancer-specific mortality. Nat Commun. 2023 Sep 30; 14(1):6113. PMID: 37777527.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/15/2023
Yu Z, Fidler TP, Ruan Y, Vlasschaert C, Nakao T, Uddin MM, Mack T, Niroula A, Heimlich JB, Zekavat SM, Gibson CJ, Griffin GK, Wang Y, Peloso GM, Heard-Costa N, Levy D, Vasan RS, Aguet F, Ardlie KG, Taylor KD, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Libby P, Jaiswal S, Ebert BL, Bick AG, Tall AR, Natarajan P. Genetic modification of inflammation- and clonal hematopoiesis-associated cardiovascular risk. J Clin Invest. 2023 Sep 15; 133(18). PMID: 37498674.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/2/2023
Lee WP, Choi SH, Shea MG, Cheng PL, Dombroski BA, Pitsillides AN, Heard-Costa NL, Wang H, Bulekova K, Kuzma AB, Leung YY, Farrell JJ, Lin H, Naj A, Blue EE, Nusetor F, Wang D, Boerwinkle E, Bush WS, Zhang X, De Jager PL, Dupuis J, Farrer LA, Fornage M, Martin E, Pericak-Vance M, Seshadri S, Wijsman EM, Wang LS, Schellenberg GD, Destefano AL, Haines JL, Peloso GM. Association of Common and Rare Variants with Alzheimer's Disease in over 13,000 Diverse Individuals with Whole-Genome Sequencing from the Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project. medRxiv. 2023 Sep 02. PMID: 37693521.
Read at: PubMed
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