Jonathan Chernus

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 diagnosis, 41(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 genetics, 15(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 reports, 8(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 & management, 2017, 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.