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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• Large-scale CSF and plasma proteomics reveal immune, synaptic, and extracellular matrix disruptions across neurodegenerative diseases

  Knight Alzheimer Disease Research Center (Knight ADRC), Alzheimer Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI), Fundació ACE Alzheimer Center Barcelona (FACE), Barcelona-1, Stanford Alzheimer Disease Research Center (Stanford ADRC) & The Global Neurodegeneration Proteomics Consortium (GNPC), Jul 15 2026, In: Neuron. 114, 14, p. 2549-2565.e7

• Mosaic loss of Y chromosome associates with lung function, emphysema, and epigenetic aging

  NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine Consortium, Jul 2026, In: American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. 212, 7, p. 1483-1494 12 p.

• Identification of genetic modifiers of autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease: a genome-wide association study

  Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network, Jun 2026, In: The Lancet Neurology. 25, 6, p. 581-590 10 p.

• 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.

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