With the goal of improving treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease, the Willer lab uses state-of-the-art approaches to generate and analyze genetic and bioinformatics data.  We study individuals with abnormal cholesterol, heart attack, congenital heart defects, aortic aneurysm, and atrial fibrillation.  We are primarily a computational lab but we also collaborate with experimental laboratories to perform exciting follow-up experiments in animal models and human induced pluripotent stem cells.