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Seyedeh Maryam Zekavat

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Biography

Maryam graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Biological Engineering. During her undergraduate experience one of her key experiences was traveling to Switzerland and engaging in research at Roche where she developed a mathematical model of cholesterol dynamics in the outer retina to understand the pathogenesis of dry age-related macular degeneration, a blinding disease.

After graduation, Maryam worked at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in the Kathiresan Lab as a Computational Biologist. Her key research contribution during this period was performing the first comprehensive deep whole-genome sequencing analyses on 1) conventional blood lipids, 2) lipoprotein(a), and 3) early-onset myocardial infarction. She also engaged in whole exome sequencing analyses, using rare variant burden analyses to discover new genes associated with myocardial infarction.

Maryam is currently an MD/PhD student at Yale, pursuing an MD and a PhD in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, co-mentored by Hongyu Zhao and Pradeep Natarajan. Her research combines germline and somatic genomics with deep phenotyping to discover and understand the causal factors of disease.

Last Updated on February 01, 2025.

Education & Training

BSc
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Biological Engineering (2015)

Research

Overview

Please see full list of publications here:

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4026-8944

Medical Research Interests

Cardiovascular System; Computational Biology; Genomics; Ophthalmology

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Seyedeh Maryam Zekavat's published research.

Publications

2024

  • A genetic association study of circulating coagulation factor VIII and von Willebrand factor levels
    de Vries P, Reventun P, Brown M, Heath A, Huffman J, Le N, Bebo A, Brody J, Temprano-Sagrera G, Raffield L, Ozel A, Thibord F, Jain D, Lewis J, Rodriguez B, Pankratz N, Taylor K, Polasek O, Chen M, Yanek L, Carrasquilla G, Marioni R, Kleber M, Trégouët D, Yao J, Li-Gao R, Joshi P, Trompet S, Martinez-Perez A, Ghanbari M, Howard T, Reiner A, Arvanitis M, Ryan K, Bartz T, Rudan I, Faraday N, Linneberg A, Ekunwe L, Davies G, Delgado G, Suchon P, Guo X, Rosendaal F, Klaric L, Noordam R, van Rooij F, Curran J, Wheeler M, Osburn W, O'Connell J, Boerwinkle E, Beswick A, Psaty B, Kolcic I, Souto J, Becker L, Hansen T, Doyle M, Harris S, Moissl A, Deleuze J, Rich S, van Hylckama Vlieg A, Campbell H, Stott D, Soria J, de Maat M, Almasy L, Brody L, Auer P, Mitchell B, Ben-Shlomo Y, Fornage M, Hayward C, Mathias R, Kilpeläinen T, Lange C, Cox S, März W, Morange P, Rotter J, Mook-Kanamori D, Wilson C, van der Harst P, Jukema J, Ikram M, Blangero J, Kooperberg C, Desch K, Johnson A, Sabater-Lleal M, Lowenstein C, Smith A, Morrison A, Abe N, Abecasis G, Aguet F, Albert C, Almasy L, Alonso A, Ament S, Anderson P, Anugu P, Applebaum-Bowden D, Ardlie K, Arking D, Arnett D, Ashley-Koch A, Aslibekyan S, Assimes T, Auer P, Avramopoulos D, Ayas N, Balasubramanian A, Barnard J, Barnes K, Barr R, Barron-Casella E, Barwick L, Beaty T, Beck G, Becker D, Becker L, Beer R, Beitelshees A, Benjamin E, Benos T, Bezerra M, Bielak L, Bis J, Blackwell T, Blangero J, Blue N, Boerwinkle E, Bowden D, Bowler R, Brody J, Broeckel U, Broome J, Brown D, Bunting K, Burchard E, Bustamante C, Buth E, Cade B, Cardwell J, Carey V, Carrier J, Carson A, Carty C, Casaburi R, Romero J, Casella J, Castaldi P, Chaffin M, Chang C, Chang Y, Chasman D, Chavan S, Chen B, Chen W, Chen Y, Cho M, Choi S, Chuang L, Chung M, Chung R, Clish C, Comhair S, Conomos M, Cornell E, Correa A, Crandall C, Crapo J, Cupples L, Curran J, Curtis J, Custer B, Damcott C, Darbar D, David S, Davis C, Daya M, de Andrade M, de las Fuentes L, de Vries P, DeBaun M, Deka R, DeMeo D, Devine S, Dinh H, Doddapaneni H, Duan Q, Dugan-Perez S, Duggirala R, Durda J, Dutcher S, Eaton C, Ekunwe L, Boueiz A, Ellinor P, Emery L, Erzurum S, Farber C, Farek J, Fingerlin T, Flickinger M, Fornage M, Franceschini N, Frazar C, Fu M, Fullerton S, Fulton L, Gabriel S, Gan W, Gao S, Gao Y, Gass M, Geiger H, Gelb B, Geraci M, Germer S, Gerszten R, Ghosh A, Gibbs R, Gignoux C, Gladwin M, Glahn D, Gogarten S, Gong D, Goring H, Graw S, Gray K, Grine D, Gross C, Gu C, Guan Y, Guo X, Gupta N, Haessler J, Hall M, Han Y, Hanly P, Harris D, Hawley N, He J, Heavner B, Heckbert S, Hernandez R, Herrington D, Hersh C, Hidalgo B, Hixson J, Hobbs B, Hokanson J, Hong E, Hoth K, Hsiung C, Hu J, Hung Y, Huston H, Hwu C, Irvin M, Jackson R, Jain D, Jaquish C, Johnsen J, Johnson C, Johnson A, Johnston R, Jones K, Kang H, Kaplan R, Kardia S, Kelly S, Kenny E, Kessler M, Khan A, Khan Z, Kim W, Kimoff J, Kinney G, Konkle B, Kooperberg C, Kramer H, Lange E, Lange L, Lange L, Laurie C, Laurie C, LeBoff M, Lee J, Lee S, Lee W, LeFaive J, Levine D, Levy D, Lewis J, Li X, Li Y, Lin H, Lin H, Lin X, Liu S, Liu Y, Liu Y, Loos R, Lubitz S, Lunetta K, Luo J, Magalang U, Mahaney M, Make B, Manichaikul A, Manning A, Manson J, Martin L, Marton M, Mathai S, Mathias R, May S, McArdle P, McDonald M, McFarland S, McGarvey S, McGoldrick D, McHugh C, McNeil B, Mei H, Meigs J, Menon V, Mestroni L, Metcalf G, Meyers D, Mignot E, Mikulla J, Min N, Minear M, Minster R, Mitchell B, Moll M, Momin Z, Montasser M, Montgomery C, Muzny D, Mychaleckyj J, Nadkarni G, Naik R, Naseri T, Natarajan P, Nekhai S, Nelson S, Neltner B, Nessner C, Nickerson D, Nkechinyere O, North K, O'Connell J, O'Connor T, Ochs-Balcom H, Okwuonu G, Pack A, Paik D, Palmer N, Pankow J, Papanicolaou G, Parker C, Peloso G, Peralta J, Perez M, Perry J, Peters U, Peyser P, Phillips L, Pleiness J, Pollin T, Post W, Becker J, Boorgula M, Preuss M, Psaty B, Qasba P, Qiao D, Qin Z, Rafaels N, Raffield L, Rajendran M, Ramachandran V, Rao D, Rasmussen-Torvik L, Ratan A, Redline S, Reed R, Reeves C, Regan E, Reiner A, Reupena M, Rice K, Rich S, Robillard R, Robine N, Roden D, Roselli C, Rotter J, Ruczinski I, Runnels A, Russell P, Ruuska S, Ryan K, Sabino E, Saleheen D, Salimi S, Salvi S, Salzberg S, Sandow K, Sankaran V, Santibanez J, Schwander K, Schwartz D, Sciurba F, Seidman C, Seidman J, Sériès F, Sheehan V, Sherman S, Shetty A, Shetty A, Sheu W, Shoemaker M, Silver B, Silverman E, Skomro R, Smith J, Smith J, Smith N, Smith T, Smith E, Smoller S, Snively B, Snyder M, Sofer T, Sotoodehnia N, Stilp A, Storm G, Streeten E, Su J, Sung Y, Sylvia J, Szpiro A, Taliun D, Tang H, Taub M, Taylor K, Taylor M, Taylor S, Telen M, Thornton T, Threlkeld M, Tinker L, Tirschwell D, Tishkoff S, Tiwari H, Tong C, Tracy R, Tsai M, Vaidya D, Van Den Berg D, VandeHaar P, Vrieze S, Walker T, Wallace R, Walts A, Wang F, Wang H, Wang J, Watson K, Watt J, Weeks D, Weinstock J, Weir B, Weiss S, Weng L, Wessel J, Willer C, Williams K, Williams L, Wilson J, Wilson J, Winterkorn L, Wong Q, Wu J, Xu H, Yanek L, Yang I, Yu K, Zekavat S, Zhang Y, Zhao S, Zhao W, Zhu X, Ziv E, Zody M, Zoellner S, Lindstrom S, Wang L, Smith N, Gordon W, van Hylckama Vlieg A, de Andrade M, Brody J, Pattee J, Haessler J, Brumpton B, Chasman D, Suchon P, Chen M, Turman C, Germain M, Wiggins K, MacDonald J, Braekkan S, Armasu S, Pankratz N, Jackson R, Nielsen J, Giulianini F, Puurunen M, Ibrahim M, Heckbert S, Bammler T, Frazer K, McCauley B, Taylor K, Pankow J, Reiner A, Gabrielsen M, Deleuze J, O'Donnell C, Kim J, McKnight B, Kraft P, Hansen J, Rosendaal F, Heit J, Psaty B, Tang W, Kooperberg C, Hveem K, Ridker P, Morange P, Johnson A, Kabrhel C, AlexandreTrégouët D, Smith N. A genetic association study of circulating coagulation factor VIII and von Willebrand factor levels. Blood 2024, 143: 1845-1855. PMID: 38320121, PMCID: PMC11443575, DOI: 10.1182/blood.2023021452.
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • Phenome- and genome-wide analyses of retinal optical coherence tomography images identify links between ocular and systemic health
    Zekavat S, Jorshery S, Rauscher F, Horn K, Sekimitsu S, Koyama S, Nguyen T, Costanzo M, Jang D, Burtt N, Kühnapfel A, Shweikh Y, Ye Y, Raghu V, Zhao H, Ghassemi M, Elze T, Segrè A, Wiggs J, Del Priore L, Scholz M, Wang J, Natarajan P, Zebardast N. Phenome- and genome-wide analyses of retinal optical coherence tomography images identify links between ocular and systemic health. Science Translational Medicine 2024, 16: eadg4517. PMID: 38266105, DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adg4517.
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research

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