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Erin Ware

Assistant Professor - Research
Survey Research Center
Population, Neurodevelopement, and Genetics
PhD, University of Michigan 2014

ebakshis@umich.edu
734-647-5490

https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/ebware/home

I have a doctoral degree in epidemiology, with a focus on genetic epidemiology, and master’s degrees in statistics and public health. My work is focused on high throughput statistical analysis of genomic data and its relationship to outcomes that show marked disparities across ages, ethnic groups and sexes, including Alzheimer’s disease. I also have experience in exploring the relationships among genetic (DNA) and epigenetic (methylation and gene expression) data and their interactions with behavioral and socioeconomic risk factors as determinants of chronic disease phenotypes that disproportionately affect minorities using cutting-edge computational methods. I’ve taught introductory statistics and math methods for data science in the residential and online master’s degree programs in the School of Information.

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Publications

Considering the APOE locus in polygenic scores for Alzheimer’s disease
2019 | Ware EB. Faul JD, Mitchell CM, Bakulski KM

A non-APOE polygenic score for Alzheimer’s disease and APOE-ε4 have independent associations with dementia in the Health and Retirement Study
2020 | Bakulski KM, Vadari HS, Faul JD, Heeringa SG, Kardia SLR, Langa KM, Smith JA, Manly JJ, Mitchell CM, Benke KS, Ware EB

Mendelian randomization of smoking behavior on cognitive status among older Americans
2019 | Fu M, Faul JD, Jin Y, Ware EB*, Bakulski KM*

Expression of socially sensitive genes: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis
2019 | Brown KM, Diez-Roux AV, Smith JA, Needham BL, Mukherjee B, Ware EB, Liu Y, Cole SW, Seeman TE, Kardia SLR.

Using Genetic Burden Scores for Gene-by-Methylation Interaction Analysis on Metabolic Syndrome in African Americans.
2019 | Taylor JY*, Ware EB*, Wright ML, Smith JA, Kardia SLR

Examining sex differences in pleiotropic effects for depression and smoking using polygenic and gene-region aggregation techniques.
2019 | Schmitz LL, Gard AM, Ware EB

Genome-wide Association Study of 24-Hour Urinary Excretion of Calcium, Magnesium, and Uric Acid.
2019 | Ware EB, Smith JA, Zhao W, Ganesvoort RT, Curhan GC, Pollak M, Mount DB, Turner ST, Chen G, Shah RJ, Kardia SLR, Lieske JC.