Shamil Sunyaev

Shamil Sunyaev, PhD

Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

10 Shattuck Street, Room 311A, Boston, MA 02115

Sunyaev Lab

Shamil Sunyaev is a computational genomicist and geneticist. Research in his lab encompasses many aspects of population genetic variation including the origin of mutations, the effect of allelic variants on molecular function, population and evolutionary genetics, and genetics of human complex and Mendelian traits. He developed several computational and statistical methods widely adopted by the community. Sunyaev obtained a PhD in molecular biophysics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and completed his postdoctoral training in bioinformatics at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). He is an Institute Member at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He also co-organizes the Boston Evolutionary Genomics Supergroup.


DBMI Research Areas
DBMI Courses
The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates.
Authors: Gao H, Hamp T, Ede J, Schraiber JG, McRae J, Singer-Berk M, Yang Y, Dietrich A, Fiziev P, Kuderna L, Sundaram L, Wu Y, Adhikari A, Field Y, Chen C, Batzoglou S, Aguet F, Lemire G, Reimers R, Balick D, Janiak MC, Kuhlwilm M, Orkin JD, Manu S, Valenzuela A, Bergman J, Rouselle M, Silva FE, Agueda L, Blanc J, Gut M, de Vries D, Goodhead I, Harris RA, Raveendran M, Jensen A, Chuma IS, Horvath J, Hvilsom C, Juan D, Frandsen P, de Melo FR, Bertuol F, Byrne H, Sampaio I, Farias I, do Amaral JV, Messias M, da Silva MNF, Trivedi M, Rossi R, Hrbek T, Andriaholinirina N, Rabarivola CJ, Zaramody A, Jolly CJ, Phillips-Conroy J, Wilkerson G, Abee C, Simmons JH, Fernandez-Duque E, Kanthaswamy S, Shiferaw F, Wu D, Zhou L, Shao Y, Zhang G, Keyyu JD, Knauf S, Le MD, Lizano E, Merker S, Navarro A, Batallion T, Nadler T, Khor CC, Lee J, Tan P, Lim WK, Kitchener AC, Zinner D, Gut I, Melin A, Guschanski K, Schierup MH, Beck RMD, Umapathy G, Roos C, Boubli JP, Lek M, Sunyaev S, O'Donnell A, Rehm H, Xu J, Rogers J, Marques-Bonet T, Kai-How Farh K.
bioRxiv
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Revisiting mutagenesis at non-B DNA motifs in the human genome.
Authors: McGinty RJ, Sunyaev SR.
Nat Struct Mol Biol
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Demographic and Viral-Genetic Analyses of COVID-19 Severity in Bahrain Identify Local Risk Factors and a Protective Effect of Polymerase Mutations.
Authors: Koch EM, Du J, Dressner M, Alwasti HE, Taif ZA, Shehab F, Mohamed AM, Ghanem A, Haghighi A, Sunyaev S, Farhat M.
medRxiv
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FAVOR: functional annotation of variants online resource and annotator for variation across the human genome.
Authors: Zhou H, Arapoglou T, Li X, Li Z, Zheng X, Moore J, Asok A, Kumar S, Blue EE, Buyske S, Cox N, Felsenfeld A, Gerstein M, Kenny E, Li B, Matise T, Philippakis A, Rehm HL, Sofia HJ, Snyder G, Weng Z, Neale B, Sunyaev SR, Lin X.
Nucleic Acids Res
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The missing link between genetic association and regulatory function.
Authors: Connally NJ, Nazeen S, Lee D, Shi H, Stamatoyannopoulos J, Chun S, Cotsapas C, Cassa CA, Sunyaev SR.
Elife
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Leveraging pleiotropy to discover and interpret GWAS results for sleep-associated traits.
Authors: Chun S, Akle S, Teodosiadis A, Cade BE, Wang H, Sofer T, Evans DS, Stone KL, Gharib SA, Mukherjee S, Palmer LJ, Hillman D, Rotter JI, Hanis CL, Stamatoyannopoulos JA, Redline S, Cotsapas C, Sunyaev SR.
PLoS Genet
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AnFiSA: An open-source computational platform for the analysis of sequencing data for rare genetic disease.
Authors: Bouzinier MA, Etin D, Trifonov SI, Evdokimova VN, Ulitin V, Shen J, Kokorev A, Ghazani AA, Chekaluk Y, Albertyn Z, Giersch A, Morton CC, Abraamyan F, Bendapudi PK, Sunyaev S, Krier JB.
J Biomed Inform
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A cross-disorder dosage sensitivity map of the human genome.
Authors: Collins RL, Glessner JT, Porcu E, Lepamets M, Brandon R, Lauricella C, Han L, Morley T, Niestroj LM, Ulirsch J, Everett S, Howrigan DP, Boone PM, Fu J, Karczewski KJ, Kellaris G, Lowther C, Lucente D, Mohajeri K, Nõukas M, Nuttle X, Samocha KE, Trinh M, Ullah F, Võsa U, Hurles ME, Aradhya S, Davis EE, Finucane H, Gusella JF, Janze A, Katsanis N, Matyakhina L, Neale BM, Sanders D, Warren S, Hodge JC, Lal D, Ruderfer DM, Meck J, Mägi R, Esko T, Reymond A, Kutalik Z, Hakonarson H, Sunyaev S, Brand H, Talkowski ME.
Cell
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The Parkinson's disease protein alpha-synuclein is a modulator of processing bodies and mRNA stability.
Authors: Hallacli E, Kayatekin C, Nazeen S, Wang XH, Sheinkopf Z, Sathyakumar S, Sarkar S, Jiang X, Dong X, Di Maio R, Wang W, Keeney MT, Felsky D, Sandoe J, Vahdatshoar A, Udeshi ND, Mani DR, Carr SA, Lindquist S, De Jager PL, Bartel DP, Myers CL, Greenamyre JT, Feany MB, Sunyaev SR, Chung CY, Khurana V.
Cell
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Genome-wide analysis of somatic noncoding mutation patterns in cancer.
Authors: Dietlein F, Wang AB, Fagre C, Tang A, Besselink NJM, Cuppen E, Li C, Sunyaev SR, Neal JT, Van Allen EM.
Science
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