Yun Ju Sung

Additional Titles & Roles

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• Professor of Biostatistics

Education & Training

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• Ph.D.: University of Minnesota, 2003

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Research Interests

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Alzheimer’s disease and neurodegeration

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Recent Publications

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• Low overlap of plasma and CSF protein quantitative trait loci affects protein discovery for neurological disease

  Western, D., Yang, C., Timsina, J., Liu, M., Wang, C., Campbell, M. C., Kotzbauer, P., Perlmutter, J. S., Schindler, S. E., Morris, J. C., Holtzman, D. M., Alvarez, I., Pastor, P., Wyss-Coray, T., Marquie, M., Cano, A., Sung, Y. J., de Rojas, I., Ruiz, A. & Budde, J. & 4 others, Fernandez, M. V., Tarawneh, R., Ibanez, L. & Cruchaga, C., Apr 29 2026, In: Science translational medicine. 18, 847, eadz2016.

• cellSTAAR: incorporating single-cell-sequencing-based functional data to boost power in rare variant association testing of noncoding regions

  NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, Feb 2026, In: Nature Methods. 23, 2, p. 338-349 12 p.

• Analyses of plasma multi-omic data across ancestries identify novel pathways implicated in Alzheimer’s disease

  Yang, C., Timsina, J., Liu, M., Budde, J., Kohlfeld, P., Brock, W., Morris, J. C., Holtzman, D. M., Sung, Y. J. & Cruchaga, C., Feb 2026, In: Alzheimer’s and Dementia. 22, 2, e71164.

• CSF proteomic profiling with amyloid and tau pathology identifies distinctive sex-specific alteration of multiple proteins involved in Alzheimer’s disease

  The Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), Jan 2026, In: Alzheimer’s and Dementia. 22, 1, e71063.

• CSF Glucose-6-Phosphate Isomerase Is a Tau-Related Biomarker Associated with Neurodegeneration and Cognitive Impairment in Alzheimer’s Disease

  Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Jan 2026, In: Molecular Neurobiology. 63, 1, 47.

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