Co-Investigator, Health and Retirement Study
Contact Information
1827 SPH I
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-2029
Email: skardia@umich.edu
Education
University of Michigan, Ph.D. Human Genetics, 1991
University of Michigan, M.A. Statistics, 1990
Carnegie-Mellon University, B.S. Biological Sciences, 1985
Research and Projects
Dr. Kardia's main research interests are in the genetic epidemiology of common chronic diseases and their risk factors. She is particularly interested in gene-environment and gene-gene interactions and in developing novel analytical strategies to understand the complex relationship between genetic variation, environmental variation, and risk of common chronic diseases. Her research utilizes genomic, epigenomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic measures on large epidemiological cohorts.
Selected Recent Publications
Genome-wide meta-analyses reveal novel loci for verbal short-term memory and learning. Molecular Psychiatry. Forthcoming. doi:10.1038/s41380-022-01710-8.
Heterogeneity in polygenic scores for common human traits. bioRxiv. Forthcoming. doi:10.1101/106062.
The Interplay of Epigenetic, Genetic, and Traditional Risk Factors on Blood Pressure: Findings from the Health and Retirement Study. Genes . 2022;13(11):1959. doi:10.3390/genes13111959.
Cumulative Genetic Risk and APOE ε4 Are Independently Associated With Dementia Status in a Multiethnic, Population-Based Cohort. Neurology Genetics. 2021;7(2):e576. doi:10.1212/NXG.0000000000000576.
Discovery and fine-mapping of height loci via high-density imputation of GWASs in individuals of African ancestry. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 2021;108(4):564-582. doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.02.011.