Professional Summary
2007-present, Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2004-2007, Senior Research Associate, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Education
Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wayne State University, 2001
M.S., Computer Science, Wayne State University, 2003
B.S., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Peking University, 1996
Postdoctoral Training,
Bioinformatics and Toxicogenomics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, 2002-2004
Bioinformatics, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 2001-2002
Research Interest & Projects
Managing high throughput biomedical data including public genomic information as well as genotyping data in molecular epidemiology studies, building data mining platforms for genetic and statistical analysis for public health research, identifying genetic factors, environmental factors and their interactions to develop statistical and computational tools to understand cardiovascular disease and other chronic diseases, and developing predictive models to determine high risk population to provide personal preventative health care and medication.
Selected Publications
Sun, Y.V., Bielak, L.F., Peyser, P.A., Turner, S.T., Sheedy, P.F.II, Boerwinkle, E., Kardia, S.L.R. (2008). Application of Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict Coronary Artery Calcification with a Sibship Based Design. Genetic Epidemiology, (32)4, 350-60.
Smith, J.A., Arnett, D.K., Kelly, R.J., Ordovas, J.M., Sun, Y.V., Hopkins, P.N., Hixson, J. E., Peacock, J.M., Kardia, S.L.R. (2008). Genetic Variation and Biological Risk Factors Interact to Influence Fasting Triglyceride and VLDL Response to Fenofibrate. European Journal of Human Genetics, 16, 603-13.
Sun, Y. V., Kardia S.L.R. (2008). Imputing Missing Genotypic Data of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Using Neural Networks. European Journal of Human Genetics, 16(4), 487-495.
Kardia, S.L.R., Sun, Y.V., Hamon, S.C., Barkley, R.A., Boerwinkle, E., Turner, S.T. (2007). Interactions between the adducin 2 gene and antihypertensive drug therapies in determining blood pressure in people with hypertension. BMC Medical Genetics, 8, 61.
Sun, Y.V., Jacobsen D.M., Kardia S.L.R. (2006). ChromoScan: A Scan Statistic Application for Identifying Genomic Regions of Targeted Measurement. Bioinformatics, 22(23), 2945-7.
Sun, Y.V., Levin, A.M., Boerwinkle, E., Robertson, H., Kardia, S.L. (2006). A scan statistic for identifying chromosomal patterns of SNP association. Genetic Epidemiology, 30(7), 627-35.
Sun, Y.V., Boverhof, D.R., Burgoon, L.D., Fielden, M.R., Zacharewski, T.R. (2004). Comparative analysis of dioxin response elements in human, mouse and rat genomic sequences. Nucleic Acid Research, 32(15), 4512-4523.
Professional Affiliations
International Genetic Epidemiology Society (IGES)
International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
Sigma Xi
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