Su Yon Jung

Associate Professor, Nursing Dept., University of California Los Angeles

Associate Professor, Epidemiology, University of California Los Angeles

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Interests

Cancer health disparities, addressing the dearth of genomic research in underrepresented populations, Cancer-related molecular biomarkers, focusing on glucose tolerance and immune response, Epidemiologic study design, data quality assurance, and machine-learning approaches, Cancer genomics and epigenomics, examining the effect of interactions with lifestyle factors

Publications

  1. Beydoun MA, Beydoun HA, Ashe J, Georgescu MF, Horvath S, Lu A, Zannas AS, Shadyab AH, Jung SY, Wassertheil-Smoller S, Casanova R, Zonderman AB, Brunner RL. Relationships of depression and antidepressant use with epigenetic age acceleration and all-cause mortality among postmenopausal women.. Aging, 2024.
  2. Jung SY, Yu H, Tan X, Pellegrini M. Novel DNA methylation-based epigenetic signatures in colorectal cancer from peripheral blood leukocytes.. American journal of cancer research, 2024.
  3. Song M, Nelson RA, Kruper L, Mortimer J, Luo J, Jung SY, Wallace RB, Chlebowski R. Bilateral Oophorectomy and Colorectal Cancer Incidence and Mortality in the Women's Health Initiative.. Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology, 2023.
  4. Chan TF, Rui X, Conti DV, Fornage M, Graff M, Haessler J, Haiman C, Highland HM, Jung SY, Kenny EE, Kooperberg C, Le Marchand L, North KE, Tao R, Wojcik G, Gignoux CR, PAGE Consortium, Chiang CWK, Mancuso N. Estimating heritability explained by local ancestry and evaluating stratification bias in admixture mapping from summary statistics.. American journal of human genetics, 2023.
  5. Zhang M, Hashibe M, Rao JY, Jung SY, Tashkin DP, Morgenstern H, Zhang ZF. Opium, phencyclidine, and crack cocaine smoking associations with lung and upper aerodigestive tract cancers: exploratory findings from a case-control study in Los Angeles County.. The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse, 2023.
  6. Jung SY, Papp JC, Sobel EM, Pellegrini M, Yu H. Genetic variants of glucose metabolism and exposure to smoking in African American breast cancer.. Endocrine-related cancer, 2023.
  7. Kim DH, Binder AM, Zhou H, Jung SY. DNA methylation patterns associated with breast cancer prognosis that are specific to tumor subtype and menopausal status.. Frontiers in genetics, 2023.
  8. Jung SY, Bhatti P, Pellegrini M. DNA methylation in peripheral blood leukocytes for the association with glucose metabolism and invasive breast cancer.. Clinical epigenetics, 2023.
  9. Jung SY, Papp JC, Sobel EM, Pellegrini M, Yu H, Zhang ZF. Pro-inflammatory cytokine polymorphisms and interactions with dietary alcohol and estrogen, risk factors for invasive breast cancer using a post genome-wide analysis for gene-gene and gene-lifestyle interaction.. Scientific reports, 2021.
  10. Jung SY, Scott PA, Papp JC, Sobel EM, Pellegrini M, Yu H, Han S, Zhang ZF. Genome-wide Association Analysis of Proinflammatory Cytokines and Gene-lifestyle Interaction for Invasive Breast Cancer Risk: The WHI dbGaP Study.. Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.), 2020.
  11. Jung SY, Papp JC, Sobel EM, Zhang ZF. Post Genome-Wide Gene-Environment Interaction Study Using Random Survival Forest: Insulin Resistance, Lifestyle Factors, and Colorectal Cancer Risk.. Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.), 2019.
  12. Jung SY, Papp JC, Sobel EM, Yu H, Zhang ZF. Breast Cancer Risk and Insulin Resistance: Post Genome-Wide Gene-Environment Interaction Study Using a Random Survival Forest.. Cancer research, 2019.
  13. Jung SY, Mancuso N, Yu H, Papp J, Sobel E, Zhang ZF. Genome-Wide Meta-analysis of Gene-Environmental Interaction for Insulin Resistance Phenotypes and Breast Cancer Risk in Postmenopausal Women.. Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.), 2018.
  14. Jung SY, Papp JC, Sobel EM, Zhang ZF. Genetic Variants in Metabolic Signaling Pathways and Their Interaction with Lifestyle Factors on Breast Cancer Risk: A Random Survival Forest Analysis.. Cancer prevention research (Philadelphia, Pa.), 2017.
  15. Jung SY, Ho G, Rohan T, Strickler H, Bea J, Papp J, Sobel E, Zhang ZF, Crandall C. Interaction of insulin-like growth factor-I and insulin resistance-related genetic variants with lifestyle factors on postmenopausal breast cancer risk.. Breast cancer research and treatment, 2017.
  16. Jung SY, Sobel EM, Papp JC, Zhang ZF. Effect of genetic variants and traits related to glucose metabolism and their interaction with obesity on breast and colorectal cancer risk among postmenopausal women.. BMC cancer, 2017.