Quan Sun, PhD

Research Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Contact information
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hilll, NC 27599
Chapel Hilll, NC 27599
Office: 984-215-9432
Email:
quansun@live.unc.edu
quansun@live.unc.edu
Education:
BS (Mathematics and Applied Mathematics)
Zhejiang University, P.R.China., 2019.
PhD (Biostatistics)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC., 2024.
Permanent linkBS (Mathematics and Applied Mathematics)
Zhejiang University, P.R.China., 2019.
PhD (Biostatistics)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC., 2024.
Selected Publications
Hu Y, Stilp AM, McHugh CP, Rao S, Jain D, Zheng X, Lane J, Méric de Bellefon S, Raffield LM, Chen MH, Yanek LR, Wheeler M, Yao Y, Ren C, Broome J, Moon JY, de Vries PS, Hobbs BD, Sun Q, Surendran P, Brody JA, Blackwell TW, Choquet H, Ryan K, Duggirala R, Heard-Costa N, Wang Z, Chami N, Preuss MH, Min N, Ekunwe L, Lange LA, Cushman M, Faraday N, Curran JE, Almasy L, Kundu K, Smith AV, Gabriel S, Rotter JI, Fornage M, Lloyd-Jones DM, Vasan RS, Smith NL, North KE, Boerwinkle E, Becker LC, Lewis JP, Abecasis GR, Hou L, O'Connell JR, Morrison AC, Beaty TH, Kaplan R, Correa A, Blangero J, Jorgenson E, Psaty BM, Kooperberg C, Walton RT, Kleinstiver BP, Tang H, Loos RJF, Soranzo N, Butterworth AS, Nickerson D, Rich SS, Mitchell BD, Johnson AD, Auer PL, Li Y, Mathias RA, Lettre G, Pankratz N, Laurie CC, Laurie CA, Bauer DE, Conomos MP, Reiner AP: A genome-wide association study of alloimmunization in the TOPMed OMG-SCD cohort identifies a locus on chromosome 12. Transfusion 64(9): 1772-1783, Septemebr 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1111/trf.17944.Sun Q, Yang Y, Rosen JD, Chen J, Li X, Guan W, Jiang M, Wen J, Pace RG, Blackman SM, Bamshad MJ, Gibson RL, Cutting GR, O’Neal WK, Knowles MR, Kooperberg C, Reiner AP, Raffield LM, Carson AP, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Loos RJF, Kenny E, Jaeger BC, Min YI, Fuchsberger C, Li Y.: MagicalRsq-X: A cross-cohort transferable genotype imputation quality metric. Hum Genet 111(5): 990-995, May 2024 Notes: DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2024.04.001.
Best LG, Erdei E, Haack K, Kent JW, Malloy K, Newman DE, O’Leary MA, O’Leary RA, Sun Q, Navas-Acien A, Franceschini N, Cole SA. : Genetic variant rs1205 associated with COVID-19 Outcomes: The Strong Heart Study and Strong Heart Family Study. PLoS One 19(4), Apr 2024.
Jeng XJ, Hu Y, Sun Q, Li Y. : Weak signal inclusion under dependence and applications in genome-wide association study. The Annals of Applied Statistics 18(1): 841-857, March 2024 Notes: DOI: 10.1214/23-AOAS1815.
Hou K, Gogarten S, Kim J, Hua X, Dias J, Sun Q, Wang Y, Tan T, Polygenic Risk Methods in Di- verse Populations Consortium Methods Working Group, Atkinson EG, Martin A, Shortt J, Hirbo J, Li Y, Pasaniuc B, Zhang H.: Admix-kit: an integrated toolkit and pipeline for genetic analyses of admixed populations. Bioinformatics 40(4), March 2024 Notes: doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btae148.
Sun Q*, Rowland BT*, Chen J, Mikhaylova AV, Avery C, Peters U, Lundin J, Matise T, Buyske S, Tao R, Mathias RA, Reiner AP, Auer PL, Cox NJ, Kooperberg C, Thornton TA, Raffield LM, Li Y.: Improving polygenic risk prediction in admixed populations by explicitly modeling ancestral- specific effects via GAUDI. Nat Commun 15(1): 1016, February 2024.
Hughes O, Bentley AR, Breeze CE, Aguet F, Xu X, Nadkarni G, Sun Q, Lin BM, Gilliland T, Meyer MC, Du J, Raffield LM, Kramer H, Morton RW, Gouveia MH, Atkinson EG, Valladares-Salgado A, Wacher-Rodarte N, Dueker ND, Guo X, Hai Y, Adeyemo A, Best LG, Cai J, Chen G, Chong M, Doumatey A, Eales J, Goodarzi MO, Ipp E, Irvin MR, Jiang M, Jones AC, Kooperberg C, Krieger JE, Lange EM, Lanktree MB, Lash JP, Lotufo PA, Loos RJF, Ha My VT, Peralta-Romero J, Qi L, Raffel LJ, Rich SS, Rodriquez EJ, Tarazona-Santos E, Taylor KD, Umans JG, Wen J, Young BA, Yu Z, Zhang Y, Ida Chen YD, Rundek T, Rotter JI, Cruz M, Fornage M, Lima-Costa MF, Pereira AC, Paré G, Natarajan P, Cole SA, Carson AP, Lange LA, Li Y, Perez-Stable EJ, Do R, Charchar FJ, Tomaszewski M, Mychaleckyj JC, Rotimi C, Morris AP, Franceschini N.: Genome-wide study investigating effector genes and polygenic prediction for kidney function in persons with ancestry from Africa and the Americas. Cell Genomics 4(1): 100468, January 2024 Notes: DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100468.
Sun Q*, Rowland BT*, Wang W, Miller-Fleming T, Cox NJ, Graff M, Faucon A, Shuey MM, Blue EE, Auer PL, Li Y, Sankaran VG, Reiner AP, Raffield LM.: Genetic Examination of Hematological Parameters in SARS-CoV-2 Infection and COVID-19. Blood Cells Mol Dis 103: 102782, November 2023 Notes: 10.1016/j.bcmd.2023.102782.
Sun Q*, Broadaway KA*, Edmiston SN, Fajgenbaum K, Miller-Fleming T, Westerkam LL, Melendez-Gonzalez M, Bui H, Blum FR, Levitt B, Lin L, Hao H, Harris KM, Liu Z, Thomas NE, Cox NJ, Li Y, Mohlke KL, Sayed CJ.: Genetic Variants Associated With Hidradenitis Suppurativa. JAMA Dermatol 159(9): 930-938, September 2023 Notes: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2023.2217.
Huerta-Chagoya A, Schroeder P, Mandla R, Deutsch AJ, Zhu W, Petty L, Yi X, Cole JB, Udler MS, Dornbos P, Porneala B, DiCorpo D, Liu CT, Li JH, Szczerbiński L, Kaur V, Kim J, Lu Y, Martin A, Eizirik DL, Marchetti P, Marselli L, Chen L, Srinivasan S, Todd J, Flannick J, Gubitosi-Klug R, Levitsky L, Shah R, Kelsey M, Burke B, Dabelea DM, Divers J, Marcovina S, Stalbow L, Loos RJF, Darst BF, Kooperberg C, Raffield LM, Haiman C, Sun Q, McCormick JB, Fisher-Hoch SP, Ordoñez ML, Meigs J, Baier LJ, González-Villalpando C, González-Villalpando ME, Orozco L, García-García L, Moreno-Estrada A; Mexican Biobank; Aguilar-Salinas CA, Tusié T, Dupuis J, Ng MCY, Manning A, Highland HM, Cnop M, Hanson R, Below J, Florez JC, Leong A, Mercader JM.: The power of TOPMed imputation for the discovery of Latino-enriched rare variants associated with type 2 diabetes. Diabetologia 66(7): 1273-1288, July 2023 Notes: DOI: 10.1007/s00125-023-05912-9.