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Tristan Hayeck, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Contact InformationAbramson Research Bldg. 710B
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3615 Civic Center Blvd.

Philadelphia, PA, 19104
Office: 267-426-7588

Specialty Division

Cancer and Immunobiology

Education

B.S. (Mechanical Engineering), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006
M.S. (Biostatistics,), Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, 2012
Ph.D. (Biostatistics), Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, 2015

Specialty Certification

Postgraduate Training

Doctoral Researcher, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, 2010-2015
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University at the Institute for Genomic Medicine, 2016-2019

Awards and Honors

Burchard Scholar, selective Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Society, 2005
NIH T32 Environmental Statistics Training Grant 2010-2015, 2010-2015
Semifinalist for the Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards for Excellence in Human Genetics Research 2015
Mixed model association with family-biased case-control ascertainment., 2015-2015

Memberships and Professional Organizations

American Society of Human Genetics Member, 2014 - Present
American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, 2020 - Present

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Selected Publications

The Impact of Patterns in Linkage Disequilibrium and Sequencing Quality on the Imprint of Balancing Selection.

Hayeck, T. J., Li, Y., Mosbruger, T. L., Bradfield, J. P., Gleason, A. G., Damianos, G., Shaw, G. T.-W., Duke, J. L., Conlin, J. L., Turner, T. N., Fernández-Viña, M. A., Sarmady, M., & Monos, D. S., Genome Biology and Evolution 1;16(2): , 2024, PMID:38302106

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Polygenic Risk Scores: Genomes to Risk Prediction

Tristan Hayeck, CLINICAL CHEMISTRY PODCAST, 2023

A combination of HLA-DP α and β chain polymorphisms paired with a SNP in the DPB1 3' UTR region, denoting expression levels, are associated with atopic dermatitis.

Margolis DJ, Duke JL, Mitra N, Berna RA, Hoffstad OJ, Wasserman JR, Dinou A, Damianos G, Kotsopoulou I, Tairis N, Ferriola DA, Mosbruger TL, Hayeck TJ, Yan AC, Monos DS, Front Genet. 23(14): , 2023, PMID:36911412

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Polygenic Risk Scores: Genomes to Risk Prediction.

Hayeck TJ, Busby GB, Chun Sung, Lewis ACF, Roberts MC, BJ Vilhjálmsson, Clinical Chemistry 69(6): 551-557, 2023

Ancestry adjustment improves genome-wide estimates of regional intolerance.

Hayeck, T.J., Stong, N., Baugh, E., Dhindsa, R., Turner, T.N., Malakar, A., Mosbruger, T.L., Duan, Y., Ionita-Laza, I., Goldstein, D. and Allen, A.S, Genetics 221(2): iyac050, 2022, PMID:35385101

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Complex Linkage Disequilibrium Effects in HLA-DPB1 Expression and Molecular Mismatch Analyses of Transplantation Outcomes.

Shieh M, *Hayeck TJ, Dinh A, Duke JL, Chitnis N, Mosbruger T, Morlen RP, Ferriola D, Kneib C, Hu T, Huang Y, Monos DS, Transplantation 105(3): 637-647, 2021

Coding and noncoding variants in EBF3 are involved in HADDS and simplex autism.

Padhi EM, Hayeck TJ, Cheng Z, Chatterjee S, Mannion BJ, Byrska-Bishop M, Willems M, Pinson L, Redon S, Benech C, Uguen K, Audebert-Bellanger S, Le Marechal C, Férec C, Efthymiou S, Rahman F, Maqbool S, Maroofian R, Houlden H, Musunuri R, Narzisi G, Abhyankar A, Hunter RD, Akiyama J, Fries LE, Ng JK, Mehinovic E, Stong N, Allen AS, Dickel DE, Bernier RA, Gorkin DU, Pennacchio LA, Zody MC, Turner TN, Hum Genomics 15(1): 44, 2021

Improved Pathogenic Variant Localization via a Hierarchical Model of Sub-regional Intolerance.

Hayeck, T. J., Stong, N., Wolock, C. J., Copeland, B., Kamalakaran, S., Goldstein, D.B., & Allen, A. S, The American Journal of Human Genetics 104(2): 299-309, 2019

Mixed Model Association with Family-Biased Case-Control Ascertainment.

Hayeck, T J., et al., The American Journal of Human Genetics 100(1): 31-39, 2017

Modeling Linkage Disequilibrium Increases Accuracy of Polygenic Risk Scores.

Vilhjálmsson, B. J., Yang, J., Finucane, H. K., Gusev, A., Lindström, S., Ripke, S., Hayeck, T.J. Price, A. L., The American Journal of Human Genetics 97(4): 576-592, 2015