Tamar Sofer

Tamar Sofer, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine
857-307-0347
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Harvard Title

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Administrative and Hospital Titles

Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Lead Investigator, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Address

Sleep and Circadian Disorders, room 225C
221 Longwood Ave
Boston MA 02115

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Local Ancestry Inference in Large Pedigrees.
Authors: Wang H, Sofer T, Zhang X, Elston RC, Redline S, Zhu X.
Sci Rep
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Genetic association testing using the GENESIS R/Bioconductor package.
Authors: Gogarten SM, Sofer T, Chen H, Yu C, Brody JA, Thornton TA, Rice KM, Conomos MP.
Bioinformatics
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Association between sleep disordered breathing and epigenetic age acceleration: Evidence from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.
Authors: Li X, Joehanes R, Hoeschele I, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Levy D, Liu Y, Redline S, Sofer T.
EBioMedicine
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Multi-ancestry sleep-by-SNP interaction analysis in 126,926 individuals reveals lipid loci stratified by sleep duration.
Authors: Noordam R, Bos MM, Wang H, Winkler TW, Bentley AR, Kilpeläinen TO, de Vries PS, Sung YJ, Schwander K, Cade BE, Manning A, Aschard H, Brown MR, Chen H, Franceschini N, Musani SK, Richard M, Vojinovic D, Aslibekyan S, Bartz TM, de Las Fuentes L, Feitosa M, Horimoto AR, Ilkov M, Kho M, Kraja A, Li C, Lim E, Liu Y, Mook-Kanamori DO, Rankinen T, Tajuddin SM, van der Spek A, Wang Z, Marten J, Laville V, Alver M, Evangelou E, Graff ME, He M, Kühnel B, Lyytikäinen LP, Marques-Vidal P, Nolte IM, Palmer ND, Rauramaa R, Shu XO, Snieder H, Weiss S, Wen W, Yanek LR, Adolfo C, Ballantyne C, Bielak L, Biermasz NR, Boerwinkle E, Dimou N, Eiriksdottir G, Gao C, Gharib SA, Gottlieb DJ, Haba-Rubio J, Harris TB, Heikkinen S, Heinzer R, Hixson JE, Homuth G, Ikram MA, Komulainen P, Krieger JE, Lee J, Liu J, Lohman KK, Luik AI, Mägi R, Martin LW, Meitinger T, Metspalu A, Milaneschi Y, Nalls MA, O'Connell J, Peters A, Peyser P, Raitakari OT, Reiner AP, Rensen PCN, Rice TK, Rich SS, Roenneberg T, Rotter JI, Schreiner PJ, Shikany J, Sidney SS, Sims M, Sitlani CM, Sofer T, Strauch K, Swertz MA, Taylor KD, Uitterlinden AG, van Duijn CM, Völzke H, Waldenberger M, Wallance RB, van Dijk KW, Yu C, Zonderman AB, Becker DM, Elliott P, Esko T, Gieger C, Grabe HJ, Lakka TA, Lehtimäki T, North KE, Penninx BWJH, Vollenweider P, Wagenknecht LE, Wu T, Xiang YB, Zheng W, Arnett DK, Bouchard C, Evans MK, Gudnason V, Kardia S, Kelly TN, Kritchevsky SB, Loos RJF, Pereira AC, Province M, Psaty BM, Rotimi C, Zhu X, Amin N, Cupples LA, Fornage M, Fox EF, Guo X, Gauderman WJ, Rice K, Kooperberg C, Munroe PB, Liu CT, Morrison AC, Rao DC, van Heemst D, Redline S.
Nat Commun
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Sequencing Analysis at 8p23 Identifies Multiple Rare Variants in DLC1 Associated with Sleep-Related Oxyhemoglobin Saturation Level.
Authors: Liang J, Cade BE, He KY, Wang H, Lee J, Sofer T, Williams S, Li R, Chen H, Gottlieb DJ, Evans DS, Guo X, Gharib SA, Hale L, Hillman DR, Lutsey PL, Mukherjee S, Ochs-Balcom HM, Palmer LJ, Rhodes J, Purcell S, Patel SR, Saxena R, Stone KL, Tang W, Tranah GJ, Boerwinkle E, Lin X, Liu Y, Psaty BM, Vasan RS, Cho MH, Manichaikul A, Silverman EK, Barr RG, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Wilson JG, Redline S, Zhu X.
Am J Hum Genet
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A general approach to detect gene (G)-environment (E) additive interaction leveraging G-E independence in case-control studies.
Authors: Tchetgen Tchetgen EJ, Shi X, Wong BHW, Sofer T.
Stat Med
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Evening intake of alcohol, caffeine, and nicotine: night-to-night associations with sleep duration and continuity among African Americans in the Jackson Heart Sleep Study.
Authors: Spadola CE, Guo N, Johnson DA, Sofer T, Bertisch SM, Jackson CL, Rueschman M, Mittleman MA, Wilson JG, Redline S.
Sleep
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A Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Blood Disorder-Related Variants Influencing Hemoglobin A1c With Implications for Glycemic Status in U.S. Hispanics/Latinos.
Authors: Moon JY, Louie TL, Jain D, Sofer T, Schurmann C, Below JE, Lai CQ, Aviles-Santa ML, Talavera GA, Smith CE, Petty LE, Bottinger EP, Chen YI, Taylor KD, Daviglus ML, Cai J, Wang T, Tucker KL, Ordovás JM, Hanis CL, Loos RJF, Schneiderman N, Rotter JI, Kaplan RC, Qi Q.
Diabetes Care
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Genome-wide association analysis of self-reported daytime sleepiness identifies 42 loci that suggest biological subtypes.
Authors: Wang H, Lane JM, Jones SE, Dashti HS, Ollila HM, Wood AR, van Hees VT, Brumpton B, Winsvold BS, Kantojärvi K, Palviainen T, Cade BE, Sofer T, Song Y, Patel K, Anderson SG, Bechtold DA, Bowden J, Emsley R, Kyle SD, Little MA, Loudon AS, Scheer FAJL, Purcell SM, Richmond RC, Spiegelhalder K, Tyrrell J, Zhu X, Hublin C, Kaprio JA, Kristiansson K, Sulkava S, Paunio T, Hveem K, Nielsen JB, Willer CJ, Zwart JA, Strand LB, Frayling TM, Ray D, Lawlor DA, Rutter MK, Weedon MN, Redline S, Saxena R.
Nat Commun
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Variants Associated with the Ankle Brachial Index Differ by Hispanic/Latino Ethnic Group: a genome-wide association study in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.
Authors: Sofer T, Emery L, Jain D, Ellis AM, Laurie CC, Allison MA, Lee J, Kurniansyah N, Kerr KF, González HM, Tarraf W, Criqui MH, Lange LA, Palmas WR, Franceschini N, Wassel CL.
Sci Rep
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