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Towfique Raj, PhD
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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Neuroscience
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Genetics and Genomic Sciences
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Neurology
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Artificial Intelligence and Human Health
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Research Topics
Alzheimer's Disease, Genetics, Genetics of Movement disorders, Genomics, Human Genetics and Genetic Disorders, Macrophage, Microglia, Parkinson's Disease, RNA Splicing & Processing

PhD, University of Cambridge

Postdoctoral Fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Postdoctoral Fellow, Broad Institute

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Publications

Selected Publications

Brain DNA methylomic analysis of frontotemporal lobar degeneration reveals OTUD4 in shared dysregulated signatures across pathological subtypes. Katherine Fodder, Megha Murthy, Patrizia Rizzu, Christina E. Toomey, Rahat Hasan, Jack Humphrey, Towfique Raj, Katie Lunnon, Jonathan Mill, Peter Heutink, Tammaryn Lashley, Conceição Bettencourt. Acta Neuropathologica

Integrative transcriptomic analysis of the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis spinal cord implicates glial activation and suggests new risk genes. Jack Humphrey, Sanan Venkatesh, Rahat Hasan, Jake T. Herb, Katia de Paiva Lopes, Fahri Küçükali, Marta Byrska-Bishop, Uday S. Evani, Giuseppe Narzisi, Delphine Fagegaltier, Kristel Sleegers, Hemali Phatnani, David A. Knowles, Pietro Fratta, Towfique Raj. Nature Neuroscience

17q21.31 sub-haplotypes underlying H1-associated risk for Parkinson’s disease are associated with LRRC37A/2 expression in astrocytes. Kathryn R. Bowles, Derian A. Pugh, Yiyuan Liu, Tulsi Patel, Alan E. Renton, Sara Bandres-Ciga, Ziv Gan-Or, Peter Heutink, Ari Siitonen, Sarah Bertelsen, Jonathan D. Cherry, Celeste M. Karch, Steven J. Frucht, Brian H. Kopell, Inga Peter, Y. J. Park, Alexander Charney, Towfique Raj, John F. Crary, A. M. Goate. Molecular Neurodegeneration

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