Soumya Raychaudhuri, M.D., Ph.D.

Soumya Raychaudhuri, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School (Secondary)
Visiting Professor in Genetics, University of Manchester

Soumya Raychaudhuri serves as the Director for the Center for Data Sciences (BWH, HMS) and is appointed as an Associate Member at the Broad Institute. Additionally he is clinically active and sees patients at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Arthritis Center. After completing his MD/PhD at Stanford University, Raychaudhuri pursued clinical training in internal medicine, and then went on to pursue subspecialty training in rheumatology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He concurrently completed postdoctoral training in human genetics at the Broad Institute with Dr. Mark Daly. Since joining the faculty at Harvard Medical School in 2010, he has contributed to the understanding of the genetic basis of rheumatoid arthritis and other immune-mediated diseases. He has also been at the forefront of devising statistical and computational methods to localize genetic association signals to causal variants, and to interpret human genetic data in the context of functional information. He currently has active research programs in the human genetics and functional genomics of tuberculosis, type I diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis, with a specific focus on using genomic strategies to understand CD4+ T cell biology.

High-density genotyping of immune loci in Koreans and Europeans identifies eight new rheumatoid arthritis risk loci.
Authors: Kim K, Bang SY, Lee HS, Cho SK, Choi CB, Sung YK, Kim TH, Jun JB, Yoo DH, Kang YM, Kim SK, Suh CH, Shim SC, Lee SS, Lee J, Chung WT, Choe JY, Shin HD, Lee JY, Han BG, Nath SK, Eyre S, Bowes J, Pappas DA, Kremer JM, Gonzalez-Gay MA, Rodriguez-Rodriguez L, Ärlestig L, Okada Y, Diogo D, Liao KP, Karlson EW, Raychaudhuri S, Rantapää-Dahlqvist S, Martin J, Klareskog L, Padyukov L, Gregersen PK, Worthington J, Greenberg JD, Plenge RM, Bae SC.
Ann Rheum Dis
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Biological interpretation of genome-wide association studies using predicted gene functions.
Authors: Pers TH, Karjalainen JM, Chan Y, Westra HJ, Wood AR, Yang J, Lui JC, Vedantam S, Gustafsson S, Esko T, Frayling T, Speliotes EK, Boehnke M, Raychaudhuri S, Fehrmann RS, Hirschhorn JN, Franke L.
Nat Commun
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TYK2 protein-coding variants protect against rheumatoid arthritis and autoimmunity, with no evidence of major pleiotropic effects on non-autoimmune complex traits.
Authors: Diogo D, Bastarache L, Liao KP, Graham RR, Fulton RS, Greenberg JD, Eyre S, Bowes J, Cui J, Lee A, Pappas DA, Kremer JM, Barton A, Coenen MJ, Franke B, Kiemeney LA, Mariette X, Richard-Miceli C, Canhão H, Fonseca JE, de Vries N, Tak PP, Crusius JB, Nurmohamed MT, Kurreeman F, Mikuls TR, Okada Y, Stahl EA, Larson DE, Deluca TL, O'Laughlin M, Fronick CC, Fulton LL, Kosoy R, Ransom M, Bhangale TR, Ortmann W, Cagan A, Gainer V, Karlson EW, Kohane I, Murphy SN, Martin J, Zhernakova A, Klareskog L, Padyukov L, Worthington J, Mardis ER, Seldin MF, Gregersen PK, Behrens T, Raychaudhuri S, Denny JC, Plenge RM.
PLoS One
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Tissue-Specific Enrichment of Lymphoma Risk Loci in Regulatory Elements.
Authors: Hayes JE, Trynka G, Vijai J, Offit K, Raychaudhuri S, Klein RJ.
PLoS One
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A weighted genetic risk score using all known susceptibility variants to estimate rheumatoid arthritis risk.
Authors: Yarwood A, Han B, Raychaudhuri S, Bowes J, Lunt M, Pappas DA, Kremer J, Greenberg JD, Plenge R, Worthington J, Barton A, Eyre S.
Ann Rheum Dis
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Risk for ACPA-positive rheumatoid arthritis is driven by shared HLA amino acid polymorphisms in Asian and European populations.
Authors: Okada Y, Kim K, Han B, Pillai NE, Ong RT, Saw WY, Luo M, Jiang L, Yin J, Bang SY, Lee HS, Brown MA, Bae SC, Xu H, Teo YY, de Bakker PI, Raychaudhuri S.
Hum Mol Genet
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HLA-DRB1-associated rheumatoid arthritis risk at multiple levels in African Americans: hierarchical classification systems, amino acid positions, and residues.
Authors: Reynolds RJ, Ahmed AF, Danila MI, Hughes LB, Gregersen PK, Raychaudhuri S, Plenge RM, Bridges SL.
Arthritis Rheumatol
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Variation at HLA-DRB1 is associated with resistance to enteric fever.
Authors: Dunstan SJ, Hue NT, Han B, Li Z, Tram TT, Sim KS, Parry CM, Chinh NT, Vinh H, Lan NP, Thieu NT, Vinh PV, Koirala S, Dongol S, Arjyal A, Karkey A, Shilpakar O, Dolecek C, Foo JN, Phuong le T, Lanh MN, Do T, Aung T, Hon DN, Teo YY, Hibberd ML, Anders KL, Okada Y, Raychaudhuri S, Simmons CP, Baker S, de Bakker PI, Basnyat B, Hien TT, Farrar JJ, Khor CC.
Nat Genet
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A role for noncoding variation in schizophrenia.
Authors: Roussos P, Mitchell AC, Voloudakis G, Fullard JF, Pothula VM, Tsang J, Stahl EA, Georgakopoulos A, Ruderfer DM, Charney A, Okada Y, Siminovitch KA, Worthington J, Padyukov L, Klareskog L, Gregersen PK, Plenge RM, Raychaudhuri S, Fromer M, Purcell SM, Brennand KJ, Robakis NK, Schadt EE, Akbarian S, Sklar P.
Cell Rep
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Partitioning heritability of regulatory and cell-type-specific variants across 11 common diseases.
Authors: Gusev A, Lee SH, Trynka G, Finucane H, Vilhjálmsson BJ, Xu H, Zang C, Ripke S, Bulik-Sullivan B, Stahl E, Kähler AK, Hultman CM, Purcell SM, McCarroll SA, Daly M, Pasaniuc B, Sullivan PF, Neale BM, Wray NR, Raychaudhuri S, Price AL.
Am J Hum Genet
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