{"id":9340,"date":"2024-04-15T08:20:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T12:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/?post_type=ud_entry&#038;p=9340"},"modified":"2024-04-24T10:33:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T14:33:56","slug":"laura-raffield-phd","status":"publish","type":"ud_entry","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/people\/laura-raffield-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Raffield, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"faculty-training\">\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.1; font-size: small; color: #333;\">Mentorship Training Completions:<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lgbtq.unc.edu\/programs\/programs-education\/safe-zone\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/03\/unc-safe-zone-training-badge.svg\" alt=\"Safe Zone Training Badge\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9188\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"department-affiliations\">\n<li style=\"line-height: 1.1; font-size: small; color: #333;\">Department Affiliations:<\/li>\n<li style=\"\">Genetics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n\n<h2>My Research<\/h2>\n<p>In my research program, I use human genomics and multi-omics to understand inherited and environmental risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases, Alzheimer\u2019s disease and related dementias, and related quantitative traits. I work to link genetic variants to function through integration with multi-omics data, including transcriptomic, methylation, proteomic, and metabolomic measures. This work has important implications for disease risk prediction across diverse populations and improved understanding of disease biology. A focus on understudied Black and Hispanic\/Latinx populations is a central theme of my research; human genetics research is dramatically unrepresentative of global populations, with &gt;90% of genome-wide association study participants of European ancestry. As complex trait genetics moves into the clinic, increasing diversity is essential to ensure that all populations benefit from the promise of precision medicine.<\/p>\n<p>I play a leadership role in collaborative efforts in human genetics, for example serving as a Genetics Working Group co-chair for the Jackson Heart Study (JHS), one of the largest population based studies of African American adults, and an Inflammation\/Hematology working group co-chair for the Population Architecture Using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) consortium. I am also a co-convener of the Multi-Omics working group for the NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) program and of the Phenotype Harmonization working group for NHGRI\u2019s Polygenic RIsk MEthods in Diverse populations (PRIMED) consortium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9416,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"ud_division":[37],"faculty-mentorship-training":[51,44],"class_list":["post-9340","ud_entry","type-ud_entry","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ud_division-faculty","faculty-mentorship-training-bias-101","faculty-mentorship-training-safe-zone-training","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Laura Raffield, PhD - Genetics and Molecular Biology Curriculum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/people\/laura-raffield-phd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Laura Raffield, PhD - Genetics and Molecular Biology Curriculum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My Research In my research program, I use human genomics and multi-omics to understand inherited and environmental risk factors for cardiometabolic diseases, Alzheimer\u2019s disease and related dementias, and related quantitative traits. 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