Joseph Glessner, PhD

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Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Director, Center for Applied Genomics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics

Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Research Institute
3615 Civic Center Boulevard
Office 1216E/ARC
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 856-341-6065
Fax: 267-426-0363
Education:
B.S. (Bioinformatics)
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, 2006.
M.S. (Bioinformatics)
University of the Sciences in Philadelphia, 2007.
Ph.D. (Genomics and Computational Biology)
University of Pennsylvania, 2014.
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Selected Publications

Chang X, Liu Y, Glessner J, Hou C, Qu H, Nguyen K, Sleiman P, Lee L, Diskin SJ, Maris JM, Hakonarson H.: Identification of Mitochondrial DNA Variants Associated With Risk of Neuroblastoma. J Natl Cancer Inst 114: 910-913, Jun 2022.

Glazer AM, Davogustto G, Shaffer CM, Vanoye CG, Desai RR, Farber-Eger EH, Dikilitas O, Shang N, Pacheco JA, Yang T, Muhammad A, Mosley JD, Van Driest SL, Wells QS, Shaffer LL, Kalash OR, Wada Y, Bland S, Yoneda ZT, Mitchell DW, Kroncke BM, Kullo IJ, Jarvik GP, Gordon AS, Larson EB, Manolio TA, Mirshahi T, Luo JZ, Schaid D, Namjou B, Alsaied T, Singh R, Singhal A, Liu C, Weng C, Hripcsak G, Ralston JD, McNally EM, Chung WK, Carrell DS, Leppig KA, Hakonarson H, Sleiman P, Sohn S, Glessner J; eMERGE Network, Denny J, Wei WQ, George AL Jr, Shoemaker MB, Roden DM.: Arrhythmia Variant Associations and Reclassifications in the eMERGE-III Sequencing Study. Circulation 145: 877-891, Mar 2022.

Qu HQ, Qu J, Glessner J, Hakonarson H.: Mendelian randomization study of obesity and type 2 diabetes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Metabolism 2022.

Qu HQ, Qu J, Glessner J, Liu Y, Mentch F, Chang X, March M, Li J, Roizen JD, Connolly JJ, Sleiman P, Hakonarson H.: Improved genetic risk scoring algorithm for type 1 diabetes prediction. Pediatr Diabetes 2022.

Liu Y, Qu HQ, Mentch FD, Qu J, Chang X, Nguyen K, Tian L, Glessner J, Sleiman PMA, Hakonarson H.: Application of deep learning algorithm on whole genome sequencing data uncovers structural variants associated with multiple mental disorders in African American patients. Mol Psychiatry 2022.

Chang X, March M, Mentch F, Nguyen K, Glessner J, Qu H, Liu Y, Furuta G, Aceves S, Gonsalves N, Nadeau K, Cianferoni A, Spergel J, Sleiman P, Hakonarson H.: A genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies new eosinophilic esophagitis loci. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2022.

Huang X, Glessner JT, Huang J, Zhou D, March ME, Wang H, Xia Q, Hakonarson H, Li J.: Discovery of Novel Host Molecular Factors Underlying HBV/HCV Infection. Front Cell Dev Biol 9: 690882, Aug 2021.

Van Driest SL, Abul-Husn NS, Glessner JT, Bastarache L, Nirenberg S, Schildcrout JS, Eswarappa MS, Belbin GM, Shaffer CM, Mentch F, Connolly J, Shi M, Stein CM, Roden DM, Hakonarson H, Cox NJ, Borinstein SC, Mosley JD.: Association Between a Common, Benign Genotype and Unnecessary Bone Marrow Biopsies Among African American Patients. JAMA Intern Med 181: 1100-1105, Aug 2021.

Qu J, Qu HQ, Bradfield JP, Glessner JT, Chang X, Tian L, March M, Connolly JJ, Roizen JD, Sleiman PMA, Hakonarson H.: Insights into non-autoimmune type 1 diabetes with 13 novel loci in low polygenic risk score patients. Sci Rep 11: 16013, Aug 2021.

Qu HQ, Qu J, Bradfield J, Marchand L, Glessner J, Chang X, March M, Li J, Connolly JJ, Roizen JD, Sleiman P, Polychronakos C, Hakonarson H.: Genetic architecture of type 1 diabetes with low genetic risk score informed by 41 unreported loci. Commun Biol 4: 908, Jul 2021.

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Last updated: 09/22/2022
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