Daniel I. Chasman, PhD
Associate Geneticist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Contact information:
Office address:
Division of Preventive Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
900 Commonwealth Avenue East, 3rd Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Phone: 617-278-0821
FAX: 617-232-3541
E-mail: dchasman@rics.bwh.harvard.edu
Primary research interests:
Genetic association studies, particularly in cardiovascular disease; and bioinformatics, particularly for understanding the biological function of genes and genetic variants
Recent publications:
Chasman DI, Kozlowski P, Zee RY, Kwiatkowski DJ, Ridker PM. Qualitative and quantitative effects of APOE genetic variation on plasma C-reactive protein, LDL-cholesterol, and apoE protein. Genes Immun 2006; 7:211-219.
Miller DT, Zee RY, Suk Danik J, Kozlowski P, Chasman DI, Lazarus R, Cook NR,
Ridker PM, Kwiatkowski DJ. Association of common CRP gene variants with CRP levels and cardiovascular events. Ann Hum Genet 2005; 69:623-38.
Chasman DI, Ridker PM. Pharmacogenetics: the outlook for genetic testing in statin therapy. Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med 2005; 2:2-3.
Chasman DI, Posada D, Subrahmanyan L, Cook NR, Stanton VP Jr, Ridker PM. Pharmacogenetic study of statin therapy and cholesterol reduction. JAMA 2004; 291:2821-7.
Lau AY, Chasman DI. Functional classification of proteins and protein variants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004; 101:6576-81.