Bioinformatics Staff Scientist
Department of Population Health Sciences
Geisinger Research Institute
LOCATION(S)
Henry Hood Center for Health Research Building
Danville, PA 17822
gchittoor@geisinger.edu
Geetha Chittoor, PhD
Research Interests
As a trained quantitative geneticist, genetic and nutritional epidemiologist, and statistical geneticist, I am interested in health-related research and aspire to study the genetic and environmental factors that influence complex diseases such as obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and other chronic kidney disease and cardiovascular disease risk factors. My role is to lead statistical analyses of multiple types of genetic data including next generation sequencing, array-based, and epigenetic data using advanced analytical tools. My research focuses on the disease risk of complex phenotypes with direct relevance to health disparities in the United States multi-ethnic populations. Pioneering biomedical research holds great importance for the future of human health in this country, and I desire to be an integral part of such establishment.
Recent Publications
- Lee M, Huan T, McCartney DL, Chittoor G, de Vries M, Lahousse L, et al. Pulmonary function and blood DNA methylation: A multi-ancestry epigenome-wide association meta-analysis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2022 May 10. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202108-1907OC. Online ahead of print. PubMed PMID: 35536696.
- Howe LJ, Nivard MG, Morris TT, Hansen AF, Rasheed H, Cho Y, Chittoor G, et al. Within-sibship genome-wide association analyses decrease bias in estimates of direct genetic effects. Nat Genet. 2022 May 9. doi: 10.1038/s41588-022-01062-7. Online ahead of print. PubMed PMID: 35534559.
- Kuhn BR, Chittoor G, Johns A, Berger A, Justice AE. Patient reported data integration for management of Eosinophilic Esophagitis. Dis Esophagus. 2022 Mar 8. doi: 10.1093/dote/doac012. Online ahead of print. PubMed PMID: 35265973.
- Kim D, Justice AE, Chittoor G, Blanco E, Burrows R, Graff M, Howard AG, Wang Y, Rohde R, Buchanan VL, Voruganti VS, Almeida M, Peralta J, Lehman DM, Curran JE, Comuzzie AG, Duggirala R, Blangero J, Albala C, Santos JL, Angel B, Lozoff B, Gahagan S, North KE. Genetic determinants of metabolic biomarkers and their associations with cardiometabolic traits in Hispanic/Latino adolescents. Pediatr Res. 2021. doi: 10.1038/s41390-021-01729-7. Online ahead of print. PubMed PMID: 34645953.
- COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative. Mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19. Multiple authors & banners. Nature. 2021. 600(7889):472-477. PubMed PMID: 34237774.
Education
M.Sc, Anthropology, S. V. University, India
PhD, Anthropology, University of Kansas