Jonathan Chernus

  • Assistant Professor

Contributions to Public Health

  • Genetic epidemiology of female meiotic traits: The goal of this work is to improve our understanding of meiosis in human oocytes, particularly risk factors for altered recombination and nondisjunction. Publications include:
    • Chernus, J. M., Sherman, S. L., & Feingold, E. (2021). Analyses stratified by maternal age and recombination further characterize genes associated with maternal nondisjunction of chromosome 21. Prenatal diagnosis41(5), 591–609. https://doi.org/10.1002/pd.5919
    • Chernus, J. M., Allen, E. G., Zeng, Z., Hoffman, E. R., Hassold, T. J., Feingold, E., & Sherman, S. L. (2019). A candidate gene analysis and GWAS for genes associated with maternal nondisjunction of chromosome 21. PLoS genetics15(12), e1008414. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008414
  • Genetic epidemiology of other human traits: I am also interested in finding and understanding genetic risk factors for other traits and diseases, such as orofacial clefting, fingerprint patterns, and sepsis. Some publications include:
    • Chernus, J., Roosenboom, J., Ford, M., Lee, M. K., Emanuele, B., Anderton, J., Hecht, J. T., Padilla, C., Deleyiannis, F., Buxo, C. J., Feingold, E., Leslie, E. J., Shaffer, J. R., Weinberg, S. M., & Marazita, M. L. (2018). GWAS reveals loci associated with velopharyngeal dysfunction. Scientific reports8(1), 8470. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-26880-w
    • Randall, C. L., Wright, C. D., Chernus, J. M., McNeil, D. W., Feingold, E., Crout, R. J., Neiswanger, K., Weyant, R. J., Shaffer, J. R., & Marazita, M. L. (2017). A Preliminary Genome-Wide Association Study of Pain-Related Fear: Implications for Orofacial Pain. Pain research & management2017, 7375468. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/7375468
  • MSGB teaching and advising: I also teach and design curriculum for core courses in the master of science in genome bioinformatics program and advise MSGB students for their theses.
Education

2010 | University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA | BS, Mathematics, BA, Philosophy, Minor: Ancient Greek 
2012 | University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA | MA, Mathematics
2021 | University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA | PhD, Human Genetics

Teaching

HUGEN 2029 Introduction to Gene Mapping
HUGEN 2071 Genomic Data Processing and Structures
HUGEN 2073 Genomic Data Visualization and Integration
HUGEN 2075 Genome Bioinformatics Thesis and Writing
HUGEN 2076 Genome Bioinformatics Capstone
PUBHLT 2015 Public Health Biology (genetics lectures)

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