Seung Hoan Choi, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Boston University School of Public Health
Biostatistics

PhD, Boston University
MA, Boston University
BS, Stony Brook University

Pronouns: he/him/his



Dr. Choi's work is at the interface of statistics and genetics, developing and applying statistical methods to further our understanding of the genetics of complex diseases. He has developed his analytic capabilities in genetics, statistics, and large-scale data processing. Dr. Choi’s recent work has used this foundation to elucidate the genetic basis of a common and complex disease, atrial fibrillation. He has led or contributed to many important findings in cardiometabolic genetics and is considered a key investigator in the field.

Dr. Choi received his PhD in Biostatistics from Boston University School of Public Health in 2016 with his focused research in statistical genetics. He then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He also previously held the position of Computational Scientist II at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.


Understanding airway mucus dysfunction in population-based studies
08/15/2022 - 07/31/2026 (Subcontract PI)
The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. NIH NHLBI
5R01HL164824-03

Nutritional Omics of Pulmonary Function Decline
11/15/2019 - 07/31/2024 (Subcontract PI)
RTI International NIH NHLBI
1R01HL149352-01



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  1. Choi SH, Jurgens SJ, Xiao L, Hill MC, Haggerty CM, Sveinbjörnsson G, Morrill VN, Marston NA, Weng LC, Pirruccello JP, Arnar DO, Gudbjartsson DF, Mantineo H, von Falkenhausen AS, Natale A, Tveit A, Geelhoed B, Roselli C, Van Wagoner DR, Darbar D, Haase D, Soliman EZ, Davogustto GE, Jun G, Calkins H, Anderson JL, Brody JA, Halford JL, Barnard J, Hokanson JE, Smith JD, Bis JC, Young K, Johnson LSB, Risch L, Gula LJ, Kwee LC, Chaffin MD, Kühne M, Preuss M, Gupta N, Nafissi NA, Smith NL, Nilsson PM, van der Harst P, Wells QS, Judy RL, Schnabel RB, Johnson R, Smit RAJ, Gabriel S, Knight S, Furukawa T, Blackwell TW, Nauffal V, Wang X, Min YI, Yoneda ZT, Laksman ZWM, Bezzina CR, Alonso A, Psaty BM, Albert CM, Arking DE, Roden DM, Chasman DI, Rader DJ, Conen D, McManus DD, Fatkin D, Benjamin EJ, Boerwinkle E, Marcus GM, Christophersen IE, Smith JG, Roberts JD, Raffield LM, Shoemaker MB, Cho MH, Cutler MJ, Rienstra M, Chung MK, S Olesen M, Sinner MF, Sotoodehnia N, Kirchhof P, Loos RJF, Nazarian S, Mohanty S, Damrauer SM, Kaab S, Heckbert SR, Redline S, Shah SH, Tanaka T, Ebana Y, Holm H, Stefansson K, Ruff CT, Sabatine MS, Lunetta KL, Lubitz SA, Ellinor PT. Sequencing in over 50,000 cases identifies coding and structural variation underlying atrial fibrillation risk. Nat Genet. 2025 Mar; 57(3):548-562. PMID: 40050430; DOI: 10.1038/s41588-025-02074-9;
     
  2. Friedman SF, Khurshid S, Venn RA, Wang X, Diamant N, Di Achille P, Weng LC, Choi SH, Reeder C, Pirruccello JP, Singh P, Lau ES, Philippakis A, Anderson CD, Maddah M, Batra P, Ellinor PT, Ho JE, Lubitz SA. Unsupervised deep learning of electrocardiograms enables scalable human disease profiling. NPJ Digit Med. 2025 Jan 12; 8(1):23. PMID: 39799251; PMCID: PMC11724961; DOI: 10.1038/s41746-024-01418-9;
     
  3. Choi SH, Young R, Koyama S, Jukema JW, Trompet S, Ford I, Natarajan P, Peloso GM. Genetic Predisposition to Coronary Artery Disease: Evaluating Statin Therapy in Elder Populations From PROSPER. JACC Adv. 2025 Feb; 4(2):101535.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39886309; PMCID: PMC11780074; DOI: 10.1016/j.jacadv.2024.101535;
     
  4. Weng LC, Rämö JT, Jurgens SJ, Khurshid S, Chaffin M, Hall AW, Morrill VN, Wang X, Nauffal V, Sun YV, Beer D, Lee S, Nadkarni GN, Duong T, Wang B, Czuba T, Austin TR, Yoneda ZT, Friedman DJ, Clayton A, Hyman MC, Judy RL, Skanes AC, Orland KM, Treu TM, Oetjens MT, Alonso A, Soliman EZ, Lin H, Lunetta KL, van der Pals J, Issa TZ, Nafissi NA, May HT, Leong-Sit P, Roselli C, Choi SH, Khan HR, Knight S, Karlsson Linnér R, Bezzina CR, Ripatti S, Heckbert SR, Gaziano JM, Loos RJF, Psaty BM, Smith JG, Benjamin EJ, Arking DE, Rader DJ, Shah SH, Roden DM, Damrauer SM, Eckhardt LL, Roberts JD, Cutler MJ, Shoemaker MB, Haggerty CM, Cho K, Palotie A, Wilson PWF, Ellinor PT, Lubitz SA. The impact of common and rare genetic variants on bradyarrhythmia development. Nat Genet. 2025 Jan; 57(1):53-64.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39747593; PMCID: PMC11735381; DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-01978-2;
     
  5. Le Borgne J, Gomez L, Heikkinen S, Amin N, Ahmad S, Choi SH, Bis J, Grenier-Boley B, Rodriguez OG, Kleineidam L, Young J, Tripathi KP, Wang L, Varma A, Campos-Martin R, van der Lee S, Damotte V, de Rojas I, Palmal S, Lipton R, Reiman E, McKee A, De Jager P, Bush W, Small S, Levey A, Saykin A, Foroud T, Albert M, Hyman B, Petersen R, Younkin S, Sano M, Wisniewski T, Vassar R, Schneider J, Henderson V, Roberson E, DeCarli C, LaFerla F, Brewer J, Swerdlow R, Van Eldik L, Hamilton-Nelson K, Paulson H, Naj A, Lopez O, Chui H, Crane P, Grabowski T, Kukull W, Asthana S, Craft S, Strittmatter S, Cruchaga C, Leverenz J, Goate A, Kamboh MI, George-Hyslop PS, Valladares O, Kuzma A, Cantwell L, Riemenschneider M, Morris J, Slifer S, Dalmasso C, Castillo A, Küçükali F, Peters O, Schneider A, Dichgans M, Rujescu D, Scherbaum N, Deckert J, Riedel-Heller S, Hausner L, Molina-Porcel L, Düzel E, Grimmer T, Wiltfang J, Heilmann-Heimbach S, Moebus S, Tegos T, Scarmeas N, Dols-Icardo O, Moreno F, Pérez-Tur J, Bullido MJ, Pastor P, Sánchez-Valle R, Álvarez V, Boada M, García-González P, Puerta R, Mir P, Real LM, Piñol-Ripoll G, García-Alberca JM, Royo JL, Rodriguez-Rodriguez E, Soininen H, de Mendonça A, Mehrabian S, Traykov L, Hort J, Vyhnalek M, Thomassen JQ, Pijnenburg YAL, Holstege H, van Swieten J, Ramakers I, Verhey F, Scheltens P, Graff C, Papenberg G, Giedraitis V, Boland A, Deleuze JF, Nicolas G, Dufouil C, Pasquier F, Hanon O, Debette S, Grünblatt E, Popp J, Ghidoni R, Galimberti D, Arosio B, Mecocci P, Solfrizzi V, Parnetti L, Squassina A, Tremolizzo L, Borroni B, Nacmias B, Spallazzi M, Seripa D, Rainero I, Daniele A, Bossù P, Masullo C, Rossi G, Jessen F, Fernandez V, Kehoe PG, Frikke-Schmidt R, Tsolaki M, Sánchez-Juan P, Sleegers K, Ingelsson M, Haines J, Farrer L, Mayeux R, Wang LS, Sims R, DeStefano A, Schellenberg GD, Seshadri S, Amouyel P, Williams J, van der Flier W, Ramirez A, Pericak-Vance M, Andreassen OA, Van Duijn C, Hiltunen M, Ruiz A, Dupuis J, Martin E, Lambert JC, Kunkle B, Bellenguez C. X-chromosome-wide association study for Alzheimer's disease. Mol Psychiatry. 2024 Dec 04.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39633006
     
  6. Jurgens SJ, Rämö JT, Kramarenko DR, Wijdeveld LFJM, Haas J, Chaffin MD, Garnier S, Gaziano L, Weng LC, Lipov A, Zheng SL, Henry A, Huffman JE, Challa S, Rühle F, Verdugo CD, Krijger Juárez C, Kany S, van Orsouw CA, Biddinger K, Poel E, Elliott AL, Wang X, Francis C, Ruan R, Koyama S, Beekman L, Zimmerman DS, Deleuze JF, Villard E, Trégouët DA, Isnard R, Boomsma DI, de Geus EJC, Tadros R, Pinto YM, Wilde AAM, Hottenga JJ, Sinisalo J, Niiranen T, Walsh R, Schmidt AF, Choi SH, Chang KM, Tsao PS, Matthews PM, Ware JS, Lumbers RT, van der Crabben S, Laukkanen J, Palotie A, Amin AS, Charron P, Meder B, Ellinor PT, Daly M, Aragam KG, Bezzina CR. Publisher Correction: Genome-wide association study reveals mechanisms underlying dilated cardiomyopathy and myocardial resilience. Nat Genet. 2024 Dec; 56(12):2843. PMID: 39633063; PMCID: PMC11631751; DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-02047-4;
     
  7. Patchen BK, Zhang J, Gaddis N, Bartz TM, Chen J, Debban C, Leonard H, Nguyen NQ, Seo J, Tern C, Allen R, DeMeo DL, Fornage M, Melbourne C, Minto M, Moll M, O'Connor G, Pottinger T, Psaty BM, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Silverman EK, Stratford J, Graham Barr R, Cho MH, Gharib SA, Manichaikul A, North K, Oelsner EC, Simonsick EM, Tobin MD, Yu B, Choi SH, Dupuis J, Cassano PA, Hancock DB. Multi-ancestry genome-wide association study reveals novel genetic signals for lung function decline. medRxiv. 2024 Nov 27.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39649580; PMCID: PMC11623738; DOI: 10.1101/2024.11.25.24317794;
     
  8. Jurgens SJ, Rämö JT, Kramarenko DR, Wijdeveld LFJM, Haas J, Chaffin MD, Garnier S, Gaziano L, Weng LC, Lipov A, Zheng SL, Henry A, Huffman JE, Challa S, Rühle F, Verdugo CD, Krijger Juárez C, Kany S, van Orsouw CA, Biddinger K, Poel E, Elliott AL, Wang X, Francis C, Ruan R, Koyama S, Beekman L, Zimmerman DS, Deleuze JF, Villard E, Trégouët DA, Isnard R, Boomsma DI, de Geus EJC, Tadros R, Pinto YM, Wilde AAM, Hottenga JJ, Sinisalo J, Niiranen T, Walsh R, Schmidt AF, Choi SH, Chang KM, Tsao PS, Matthews PM, Ware JS, Lumbers RT, van der Crabben S, Laukkanen J, Palotie A, Amin AS, Charron P, Meder B, Ellinor PT, Daly M, Aragam KG, Bezzina CR. Genome-wide association study reveals mechanisms underlying dilated cardiomyopathy and myocardial resilience. Nat Genet. 2024 Dec; 56(12):2636-2645. PMID: 39572784; PMCID: PMC11631763; DOI: 10.1038/s41588-024-01975-5;
     
  9. 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, Kunkle BW, 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 more than 13,000 diverse individuals with whole-genome sequencing from the Alzheimer's Disease Sequencing Project. Alzheimers Dement. 2024 Dec; 20(12):8470-8483.View Related Profiles. PMID: 39428839; PMCID: PMC11667527; DOI: 10.1002/alz.14283;
     
  10. Haj AK, Ryu J, Jurgens SJ, Chaudhry S, Koyama S, Wang X, Choi SH, Hou C, Sanna-Cherchi S, Anderson CD, Ellinor PT, Bendapudi PK. Loss of function in protein Z (PROZ) is associated with increased risk of ischemic stroke in the UK Biobank. J Thromb Haemost. 2025 Jan; 23(1):171-180. PMID: 39383998; PMCID: PMC11725435; DOI: 10.1016/j.jtha.2024.09.016;
     
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2021 Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard: CHARGE Seattle Meeting Travel Award
2013 Framingham Heart Study: CHARGE Rotterdam Meeting Travel Award
2012 Framingham Heart Study: CHARGE Reykjavik Meeting Travel Award
2009-2016 Boston University: Graduate Research Assistant Scholarship Program
2008 The State University of New York at Stony Brook: Cum Laude
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