Nancy L Heard-Costa, PhD
Assistant Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Neurology

PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham
MPH, Boston University School of Public Health
BA, Ripon College



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.

Center Faculty Member
Framingham Heart Study
Framingham Heart Study




Return of Genomic Results and Estimating Penetrance in Population-Based Cohorts
08/01/2019 - 06/30/2024 (Subcontract PI)
Broad Institute, Inc., The NIH NHLBI
1R01HL143295-04



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  1. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37802043
     
  2. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37777527; PMCID: PMC10542802; DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41785-7;
     
  3. 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).View Related Profiles. PMID: 37498674; PMCID: PMC10503804; DOI: 10.1172/JCI168597;
     
  4. 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.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37693521; PMCID: PMC10491367; DOI: 10.1101/2023.09.01.23294953;
     
  5. 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 Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project whole genome sequence data. medRxiv. 2023 Aug 29.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37693453; PMCID: PMC10491364; DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.28.23294631;
     
  6. Georgakis MK, Malik R, Hasbani NR, Shakt G, Morrison AC, Tsao NL, Judy R, Mitchell BD, Xu H, Montasser ME, Do R, Kenny EE, Loos RJF, Terry JG, Carr JJ, Bis JC, Psaty BM, Longstreth WT, Young KA, Lutz SM, Cho MH, Broome J, Khan AT, Wang FF, Heard-Costa N, Seshadri S, Vasan RS, Palmer ND, Freedman BI, Bowden DW, Yanek LR, Kral BG, Becker LC, Peyser PA, Bielak LF, Ammous F, Carson AP, Hall ME, Raffield LM, Rich SS, Post WS, Tracy RP, Taylor KD, Guo X, Mahaney MC, Curran JE, Blangero J, Clarke SL, Haessler JW, Hu Y, Assimes TL, Kooperberg C, Damrauer SM, Rotter JI, de Vries PS, Dichgans M. Carriers of rare damaging CCR2 genetic variants are at lower risk of atherosclerotic disease. medRxiv. 2023 Aug 16.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37645892; PMCID: PMC10462211; DOI: 10.1101/2023.08.14.23294063;
     
  7. Keshawarz A, Bui H, Joehanes R, Ma J, Liu C, Huan T, Hwang SJ, Tejada B, Sooda M, Courchesne P, Munson PJ, Demirkale CY, Yao C, Heard-Costa NL, Pitsillides AN, Lin H, Liu CT, Wang Y, Peloso GM, Lundin J, Haessler J, Du Z, Cho M, Hersh CP, Castaldi P, Raffield LM, Wen J, Li Y, Reiner AP, Feolo M, Sharopova N, Vasan RS, DeMeo DL, Carson AP, Kooperberg C, Levy D. Expression quantitative trait methylation analysis elucidates gene regulatory effects of DNA methylation: the Framingham Heart Study. Sci Rep. 2023 Aug 10; 13(1):12952.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37563237; PMCID: PMC10415314; DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-39936-3;
     
  8. 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. medRxiv. 2023 Jun 29.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37425772; PMCID: PMC10327287; DOI: 10.1101/2023.06.28.23291966;
     
  9. 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. Association of Severe Hypercholesterolemia and Familial Hypercholesterolemia Genotype With Risk of Coronary Heart Disease. Circulation. 2023 May 16; 147(20):1556-1559.View Related Profiles. PMID: 37186683; PMCID: PMC10188204; DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.123.064168;
     
  10. Westerman KE, Walker ME, Gaynor SM, Wessel J, DiCorpo D, Ma J, Alonso A, Aslibekyan S, Baldridge AS, Bertoni AG, Biggs ML, Brody JA, Chen YI, Dupuis J, Goodarzi MO, Guo X, Hasbani NR, Heath A, Hidalgo B, Irvin MR, Johnson WC, Kalyani RR, Lange L, Lemaitre RN, Liu CT, Liu S, Moon JY, Nassir R, Pankow JS, Pettinger M, Raffield LM, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Selvin E, Senn MK, Shadyab AH, Smith AV, Smith NL, Steffen L, Talegakwar S, Taylor KD, de Vries PS, Wilson JG, Wood AC, Yanek LR, Yao J, Zheng Y, Boerwinkle E, Morrison AC, Fornage M, Russell TP, Psaty BM, Levy D, Heard-Costa NL, Ramachandran VS, Mathias RA, Arnett DK, Kaplan R, North KE, Correa A, Carson A, Rotter JI, Rich SS, Manson JE, Reiner AP, Kooperberg C, Florez JC, Meigs JB, Merino J, Tobias DK, Chen H, Manning AK. Investigating Gene-Diet Interactions Impacting the Association Between Macronutrient Intake and Glycemic Traits. Diabetes. 2023 May 01; 72(5):653-665.View Related Profiles. PMID: 36791419; PMCID: PMC10130485; DOI: 10.2337/db22-0851;
     
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Bar chart showing 95 publications over 22 distinct years, with a maximum of 11 publications in 2022 and 2023

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In addition to these self-described keywords below, a list of MeSH based concepts is available here.

genetic analysis
genetic forensic analysis
pedigree analysis
statistical analysis
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