Quan Sun, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory MedicinePerelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Contact InformationRoom 9061, Colket Translational Research Building,
3501 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA, 19104
Office: 215-590-9035
Email: quan.sun@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Research Expertise
statistical genetics and genomics, bioinformatics, computational biology, genetic epidemiology
Education
BS (Mathematics and Applied Mathematics), Zhejiang University, 2019
PhD (Biostatistics), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024
Specialty Certification
Postgraduate Training
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC., 2024-2024
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2024-2025
Awards and Honors
SAMSUNG Scholarship (awarded to 15 undergraduate students for outstanding academic performance), Zhejiang University, 2017
First-Class Scholarship for Research and Innovation, Zhejiang University, 2018
Outstanding Graduates of Zhejiang University and of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang University and Zhejiang Province, 2019
ASHG 2021 Reviewers’ Choice Award (Scored Top 10%), American Society of Human Genetics, 2021
TOPMed Fellowship, NHLBI TOPMed Consortium, 2022
CHARGE Philadelphia 2022 Travel Award, CHARGE Consortium, 2022
ASHG 2023 Reviewers’ Choice Award (Scored Top 10%), American Society of Human Genetics, 2023
CHARGE San Antonio 2023 Travel Award, CHARGE Consortium, 2023
Michel A. Ibrahim Fellowship, UNC Chapel Hill, 2023
Gillings Global Health Scholarship, UNC Chapel Hill, 2023
ICSA Chengdu Travel Award, International Chinese Statistical Association, 2023
IGES 2023 Roger Williams Memorial Award (Best Graduate Student Presentation), International Genetic Epidemiology Society, 2023
Barry H. Margolin Dissertation Award, UNC Chapel Hill, 2024
Anne Cynthia Price Travel Award, UNC Chapel Hill, 2024
Memberships and Professional Organizations
Web Links
Selected Publications
Advances in haplotype phasing and genotype imputation
Sun Q, Li Y., Nat Rev Genet., 2025, PMID:40993437
Variational autoencoder-based model improves polygenic prediction in blood cell traits
Li X, Kharitonova E, Pang M, Wen J, Zhou LY, Raffield L, Zhou H, Yao H, Chen C, Li Y#, Sun Q#., HGG Adv 6(): 100490, 2025, PMID:40783786
A large-scale genome-wide study of gene-sleep duration interactions for blood pressure in 811,405 individuals from diverse populations
Nagarajan P, Winkler TW, Bentley AR, Miller CL, Kraja AT, Schwander K, Lee S, Wang W, Brown MR, Morrison JL, Giri A, O'Connell JR, Bartz TM, de Las Fuentes L, Gudmundsdottir V, Guo X, Harris SE, Huang Z, Kals M, Kho M, Lefevre C, Luan J, Lyytikäinen LP, Mangino M, Milaneschi Y, Palmer ND, Rao V, Rauramaa R, Shen B, Stadler S, Sun Q, Tang J, Thériault S, van der Graaf A, van der Most PJ, Wang Y, Weiss S, Westerman KE, Yang Q, Yasuharu T, Zhao W, Zhu W, Altschul D, Ansari MAY, Anugu P, Argoty-Pantoja AD, Arzt M, Aschard H, Attia JR, Bazzanno L, Breyer MA, Brody JA, Cade BE, Chen HH, Chen YI, Chen Z, de Vries PS, Dimitrov LM, Do A, Du J, Dupont CT, Edwards TL, Evans MK, Faquih T, Felix SB, Fisher-Hoch SP, Floyd JS, Graff M, Gu C, Gu D, Hairston KG, Hanley AJ, Heid IM, Heikkinen S, Highland HM, Hood MM, Kähönen M, Karvonen-Gutierrez CA, Kawaguchi T, Kazuya S, Kelly TN, Komulainen P, Levy D, Lin HJ, Liu PY, Marques-Vidal P, McCormick JB, Mei H, Meigs JB, Menni C, Nam K, Nolte IM, Pacheco NL, Petty LE, Polikowsky HG, Province MA, Psaty BM, Raffield LM, Raitakari OT, Rich SS, et al., Mol Psychiatry 30(8): 3660-3672, 2025, PMID:40181193
Diabetes Genetic Clusters and Clinical Outcomes in American Indians
Reynolds KM, Sun Q, Zhang Y, Umans J, Cole SA, Morris AP, Franceschini N., Diabetes, 2025, PMID:40824997
Genomic loci and molecular genetic mechanisms for hidradenitis suppurativa
Broadaway KA*, Sun Q*, Edmiston SN, Currin KW, Vadlamudi S, Miller-Fleming TW, Shi Y, Fajgenbaum K, Melendez-Gonzalez M, Bui H, Blum FR, Westerkam L, Shams R, Mallela T, Levitt B, Lin L, Hao H, Memili A, Straub P, Zhou W, Harris KM, Martin A, Cox NJ, Liu Z, Thomas NE, Li Y, Mohlke KL, Sayed CJ., Br J Dermatol, 2025, PMID:40650879
A data model for population descriptors in genomic research
Khan AT, Adebamowo C, Fullerton SM, Hirbo J, Konigsberg IR, Kraft P, Martin I, Nelson SC, Ramsay M, Wojcik GL, Adebamowo SN, Conomos MP, Darst BF, Hysong MR, Li Y, Martin AR, Mathias RA, Rich SS, Sakoda LC, Schrider DR, Sharma J, Smith JL, Sun Q, Zhang Y; Polygenic Risk Methods in Diverse Populations (PRIMED) Consortium; Gogarten SM., Am J Hum Genet 112(): 1504-1514, 2025, PMID:40513563
The ACE I/D polymorphism in relation to hypertension, cardiovascular and kidney diseases: The Strong Heart Study.
Best LG, Reese JA, Cole SA, Haack K, Fabsitz RR, Fretts AM, Zhang Y, Umans JG, Franceschini, N, Sun Q, J Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone Syst. 26(): 14703203251351104, 2025
EndoPRS: Incorporating endophenotype information to improve polygenic risk scores for clinical endpoints-A study in asthma
Kharitonova EV, Sun Q, Ockerman F, Chen B, Zhou LY, Hysong MR, Tuftin B, Cao H, Mathias RA, Auer PL, Ober C, Raffield LM, Reiner AP, Cox NJ, Kelada SNP, Tao R, Li Y., Am J Hum Genet 112(): 1199-1214, 2025, PMID:40203832
LILRB3 genetic variation is associated with kidney transplant failure in African American recipients
Sun Z, Yi Z, Wei C, Wang W, Ren T, Cravedi P, Tedla F, Ward SC, Azeloglu E, Schrider DR, Li Y, Khan A, Zanoni F, Fu J, Ali S, Liu S, Liang D, Liu T, Li H, Xi C, Vy TH, Mosoyan G, Sun Q, Kumar A, Zhang Z, Farouk S, Campell K, Ochando J, Lee K, Coca S, Xiang J, Connolly P, Gallon L, O'Connell PJ, Colvin R, Menon MC, Nadkarni G, He JC, Kraft M, Jiang X, Zhang X, Kiryluk K, Cherukuri A, Lakkis FG, Zhang W, Chen SH, Heeger PS, Zhang W., Nat Med 31(5): 1677-1687, 2025, PMID:40065170
Opportunities and challenges of local ancestry in genetic association analyses
Sun Q#, Horimoto ARVR, Chen B, Ockerman F, Mohlke KL, Blue E, Raffield LM, Li Y#., Am J Hum Genet 112(4): 727-740, 2025, PMID:40185073
