Publications
Journal Articles
Sun, R.*, Bouchard, M.B.*, Hillman, E.M.C. SPLASSH: open source software for camera-based high-speed, multispectral in-vivo optical image acquisition. Biomedical Optics Express 2010; 1(2): 375-397.
Wang, Z., Claus-Henn, B., Wang, C., Wei, Y., Su, L., Sun, R., Chen, H., Wagner, P.J., Lu, Q., Lin, X., Wright, R., Bellinger, D., Kile, M., Mazumdar, M., Tellez-Rojo, M.M., Schaas, L., Christiani, D.C. Genome-wide gene by Pb exposure interaction analysis identifies UNC5D as a candidate gene for neurodevelopment. Environmental Health 2-17; 16(1): 81.
Sun, R., Carroll, R.J., Christiani, D.C., Lin, X. Testing for gene-environment interaction under exposure misspecification. Biometrics 2018; 74(2): 653-662.
Orkaby, A., Rich, M.W., Sun, R., Lux, E., Wei, L.J., Kim, D.H. Pravastin for primary prevention in older adults: restricted mean survival time analysis. Journal of the American Geriatric Society 2018; 66(10): 1987-1991.
Sun, R., Wang, Z., Claus-Henn, B., Su, L., Lu, Q., Lin, X., Wright, R., Bellinger, D., Kile, M., Mazumdar, M., Tellez-Rojo, M.M., Schnaas, L., Christiani, D.C. Identification of novel loci associated with infant cognitive ability. Molecular Psychiatry Molecular Psychiatry 2018; 1-10.
Sun, R., Hui, S., Bader, G., Lin, X., Kraft, P. Powerful gene set analysis in GWAS with the Generalized Berk-Jones statistic. PLOS Genetics 2019; 15(3): e1007530.
Gaynor, S.*; Sun, R.*, Lin, X., Quackenbush, J. Identification of differentially expressed gene sets using the Generalized Berk-Jones statistic. Bioinformatics 2019; 35(22): 4568-4576.
Sun, R., Lin, X. Set-based tests for genetic association using the Generalized Berk-Jones statistic. Journal of the American Statistical Association 2020; 115(53): 1079-1091.
Park, H-R., Panganibana, R.A., Sun, R., Shumyatcher, M., Himes, B.E., Christiani, D.C., Lu, Q. MicroRNA-124 protects neural cells against arsenic-induced endoplasmic reticulum stress and cytotoxicity in vitro and is associated with neurodevelopmental outcomes in children. Scientific Reports 2020; 10(1): 1-11.
Li, X., Li, Z., Zhou, H., Gaynor, S., Liu, Y., Chen, H., Sun, R., …, Lin, X. Dynamic incorporation of multiple in-silico functional annotations empowers rare variant association analysis of large whole genome sequencing studies at scale. Nature Genetics 2020; 52(9): 969-983.
Colina, A., Hwang H., Wang, H., Katz, M., Sun, R., Lee, J., Tzeng, C., Wolff, R., Raghav, K., Overman, M. Natural history and prognostic factors for localized small bowel adenocarcinoma. ESMO Open 2020; 5(6): e000960.
Deng, Q., Han, G., Puebla-Osorio, N., Ma, M.C.J., Strati, P., Chasen, B., Dai, E., Dang, M., Jain, N., Yang, H., Wang, Y., Zhang, S., Wang, R., Chen, R., Showell, H., Ghosh, S., Patchva, S., Zhang, Q., Sun, R., …, Green, M.R. Characteristics of anti-CD19 CAR T-cell infusion products associated with efficacy and toxicity in patients with large B-cell lymphomas. Nature Medicine 2020; 26(12): 18878-1887
Zhu, L., Cai, D., Li, Y., Tong, X., Sun, R., Srivastava, D., Hudson, M. Maximum likelihood estimation for the proportional odds model with mixed interval-censored failure time data. Journal of Applied Statistics 2021; 48(8):1496-1512.
Sun, R., Xu, M., Li, X., Gaynor, S., Zhou, H., Bosse, Y., Lam, S., Tsao, M., Tardon, A., Chen, C., Doherty, J., Goodman, G., Egil Bojesen, S., Teresa, M.T., Johansson, M., Field, J.K., Bickeboller, H., Wichmann, H., Risch, A., Rennert, G., Arnold, S., Wu, X., Melander, O., Brunnstr ̈om, H., Marchand, L.L., Zong, X., Liu, G., Andrew, A., Duell, E., Kiemeney, L.A., Shen, H., Haugen, A., Johansson, M., Grankvist, K., Caporaso, N., Woll, P., Teare, M.D., Scelo, G., Hong, Y., Yuan, J., Lazarus, P., Schabath, M.B., Aldrich, M.C., Albanes, D., Brennan, P., Barbie, D., Mak, R., Hung, R.J., Amos, C.I., Christiani, D.C., Lin, X. Identification of inflammation and immune-related risk variants associated with squamous cell lung cancer. Genetic Epidemiology 2021; 45(1): 99-114.
Kim, D., Li, X., Bian, S., Wei, L.J., Sun, R. Effect of dementia drugs on nursing home placement: what is the meaningful metric? JAMA Network Open 2021; 4(1): e2034745.
Strati, S., Ahmed, S., Furqan, F., …, Sun, R., Claussen, C., Hawkins, M., Johnson, N., Singh, P., Mistry, H., Johncy, S., Adkins, S., Kebriaei, P., Shpall, E., Green, M., Flowers, C., Westin, J., Neelapu, S. Prognostic impact of corticosteroids on efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor t-cell therapy in large b-cell lymphoma. Blood 2021; 137(23): 3272-3276.
Alhalabi, O., Soomro, Z., Sun, R., Hasanov, E., Albittar, A., Tripathy, D., Valero, V., Ibrahim, N. Outcomes of changing systemic therapy in patients with relapsed breast cancer and 1 to 3 brain metastases. NPJ Breast Cancer 2021; 7(1): 1-5.
Yam, C., Rauch, G., Rahman, T., Karuturi, M., Ravenberg, E., White, J., Clayborn, A., McCarthy, P., Abouharb, S., Lim, B., Litton, J., Ramirez, D., Saleem, S., Stec, J., Symmans, W., Huo, L., Damodaran, S., Sun, R., Moulder, S. A phase II study of mirvetuximab soravtansine in triple- negative breast cancer. Investigational New Drugs 2021; 39(2): 509-515.
Han, G., Yang, G., Hao, D., Lu, Y., Thein, K., Chen, J., Sun, R., …, Wang, L. 9p21 loss confers a cold tumor immune microenvironment and primary resistance to immune checkpoint therapy. Nature Communications 2021; 12(1): 1-19.
Xu, M., Tapia, C., Hajjar, J., …, Sun, R., Karp, D., Koay, E., Yang, Y., Wistuba, I., Hwu, P., Meric-Bernstam, F., Naing, A. Implementation of a novel web-based lesion selection tool to improve acquisition of biopsies. Journal of Immunotherapy and Precision Oncology 2021: 4(2): 45-52.
Yam, Y., Yen, E., Chang, T., …, Sun, R., Moulder, S., Mittendorf E. Immune phenotype and response to neoadjuvant therapy in triple-negative breast cancer. Clinical Cancer Research 2021; 27(19): 5356-5375.
Sun, R.*, McCaw, Z.*, Tian, L., Uno, H., Hong, F., Kim, D., Wei, L.J. Moving beyond conventional stratified analysis to assess the treatment effect in a comparative oncology study. Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer 2021; 9(11): e003323.
Kaseb, A., Hasanov, E., Cao, H., …, Sun, R., Vittorio, C., Beretta, L., Yao, J., Wolff, R., Allison, J., Sharma, P. Perioperative nivolumab monotherapy plus ipilimumab in resectable hepatocellular carcinoma. The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology 2022+ (in press).
Li, Y., Xiao, X., Li, J., …, Sun, R., …, Willey, J., Gaba, C., Amos, C. Genome-wide interaction analysis identified low-frequency variants with sex disparity in lung cancer risk. Human Molecular Genetics 2022+ (in press).
Grover, P., Veilleux O., Tian, L., Sun, R., Previtera, M., Curran, E., Muffly, L. Chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy in adults with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a systematic review. Blood Advances 2022+ (in press).
McCaw, Z., Gaynor, S., Sun, R., Lin X. Cross-tissue eQTL mapping in the presence of missing data via surrogate outcome analysis. Biometrics 2022+ (in press).
Li, X., Yung G., Zhou H., Sun, R., Li, Z., Liu X., Ionita-Laza, I., Lin X. A multi-dimensional integrative scoring framework for predicting functional variants in the human genome. American Journal of Human Genetics 2022+ (in press).
Sun, R., Liang, Z., Li, Y., Yutaka, Y., Robison, L. Inference for set-based effects in genetic association studies with interval-censored outcomes. Biometrics 2022+ (in press).
Published Correspondence
Sun, R., Horiguchi, M., Wei, L.J. Interpreting the benefit of frifluirdine/tipiracil in metastatic colorectal cancer with respect to progression-free survival and overall survival. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2018; 36(13): 1378.
Sun, R., Rich, M.W., Wei, L.J. Pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy in lung cancer. New England Journal of Medicine 2018; 379(11): e18.
Sun, R., Nie, L., Huang, B., Kim, D.H., Wei, L.J. Quantifying immunoscore performance. The Lancet 2018; 392(10158): 1624.
Sun, R., Wei, L.J. Regional Hyperthermia With Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Treatment of Soft Tissue Sarcoma. JAMA Oncology 2019; 5(1): 112-113.
Sun, R., Zhu, H., Wei, L.J. Assessing the prognostic value of automated bone scan index in prostate cancer. JAMA Oncology 2019; 5(2): 270.
Sun, R., Orkaby, A.O., Kim, D.H., Zhu, H., Wei, L.J. Interpreting non-inferiority of biodegradable- polymer stents to durable-polymer stents. The Lancet 2019; 393(10184): 1932-1933.
Sun, R., Lee, H., Wei, L.J. Interpreting the long-term prognostic value of total mesorectal excision plane quality in rectal adenocarcinoma. JAMA Surgery 2019; 154(1): 96.
Sun, R., Kim, D.H., and Wei, L.J. Analysis of overall survival benefit of abemaciclib plus fulvestrant in hormone receptor-positive, ERBB-2 negative breast cancer. JAMA Oncology 2020; 6(7): 1121-1122.
Sun, R., Messick, C., and Wei, L.J. Quantifying benefit from two-stage turnbull-cutait pull-through coloanal anastomosis for low rectal cancer. JAMA Surgery 2021; 156(2): 202-203.
Sun, R., Tian, L., and Wei, L.J. Evaluating long-term efficacy of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy plus surgery for the treatment of locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. JAMA Surgery 2022+ (in press).
*Indicates equal contribution as first authors.