Nawei Sun, PhD
Specialist
Psychiatry
School of Medicine
Education & Training
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- B.S. Biotechnology Jilin University
- Ph.D. Genetics Rutgers University
Publications (13)
Top publication keywords:
EstrogensSystems BiologyTourette SyndromeAttention Deficit Disorder with HyperactivityNeurogenesisFibronectinsCiliaNeurodevelopmental DisordersAutism Spectrum DisorderReceptors, Cell SurfaceAutistic DisorderCadherinsMuscle ProteinsPedigreeTic Disorders
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Ciliary biology intersects autism and congenital heart disease.
Development (Cambridge, England) 2025 Teerikorpi N, McCluskey KE, Bader E, Lasser MC, Wang S, Nguyen CH, Schmidt JD, Kostyanovskaya E, Sun N, Dea J, Nowakowski TJ, Willsey AJ, Willsey HR -
Ciliary biology intersects autism and congenital heart disease.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024 Teerikorpi N, Lasser MC, Wang S, Kostyanovskaya E, Bader E, Sun N, Dea J, Nowakowski TJ, Willsey AJ, Willsey HR -
A foundational atlas of autism protein interactions reveals molecular convergence.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024 Wang B, Vartak R, Zaltsman Y, Naing ZZC, Hennick KM, Polacco BJ, Bashir A, Eckhardt M, Bouhaddou M, Xu J, Sun N, Lasser MC, Zhou Y, McKetney J, Guiley KZ, Chan U, Kaye JA, Chadha N, Cakir M, Gordon M,… -
Autism genes converge on microtubule biology and RNA-binding proteins during excitatory neurogenesis.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2024 Sun N, Teyssier N, Wang B, Drake S, Seyler M, Zaltsman Y, Everitt A, Teerikorpi N, Willsey HR, Goodarzi H, Tian R, Kampmann M, Willsey AJ -
Rare X-linked variants carry predominantly male risk in autism, Tourette syndrome, and ADHD.
Nature communications 2023 Wang S, Wang B, Drury V, Drake S, Sun N, Alkhairo H, Arbelaez J, Duhn C, Tourette International Collaborative Genetics (TIC Genetics), Bal VH, Langley K, Martin J, Hoekstra PJ, Dietrich A, Xing J, …
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Pleiotropy of autism-associated chromatin regulators.
Development (Cambridge, England) 2023 Lasser M, Sun N, Xu Y, Wang S, Drake S, Law K, Gonzalez S, Wang B, Drury V, Castillo O, Zaltsman Y, Dea J, Bader E, McCluskey KE, State MW, Willsey AJ, Willsey HR -
Parallel in vivo analysis of large-effect autism genes implicates cortical neurogenesis and estrogen in risk and resilience.
Neuron 2021 Willsey HR, Exner CRT, Xu Y, Everitt A, Sun N, Wang B, Dea J, Schmunk G, Zaltsman Y, Teerikorpi N, Kim A, Anderson AS, Shin D, Seyler M, Nowakowski TJ, Harland RM, Willsey AJ, State MW -
Integrated Mobile Element Scanning (ME-Scan) method for identifying multiple types of polymorphic mobile element insertions.
Mobile DNA 2020 Loh JW, Ha H, Lin T, Sun N, Burns KH, Xing J -
De Novo Sequence and Copy Number Variants Are Strongly Associated with Tourette Disorder and Implicate Cell Polarity in Pathogenesis.
Cell reports 2018 Wang S, Mandell JD, Kumar Y, Sun N, Morris MT, Arbelaez J, Nasello C, Dong S, Duhn C, Zhao X, Yang Z, Padmanabhuni SS, Yu D, King RA, Dietrich A, Khalifa N, Dahl N, Huang AY, Neale BM, Coppola G, … -
The Psychiatric Cell Map Initiative: A Convergent Systems Biological Approach to Illuminating Key Molecular Pathways in Neuropsychiatric Disorders.
Cell 2018 Willsey AJ, Morris MT, Wang S, Willsey HR, Sun N, Teerikorpi N, Baum TB, Cagney G, Bender KJ, Desai TA, Srivastava D, Davis GW, Doudna J, Chang E, Sohal V, Lowenstein DH, Li H, Agard D, Keiser MJ, … -
The PNKD gene is associated with Tourette Disorder or Tic disorder in a multiplex family.
Molecular psychiatry 2017 Sun N, Nasello C, Deng L, Wang N, Zhang Y, Xu Z, Song Z, Kwan K, King RA, Pang ZP, Xing J, Heiman GA, Tischfield JA -
De Novo Coding Variants Are Strongly Associated with Tourette Disorder.
Neuron 2017 Willsey AJ, Fernandez TV, Yu D, King RA, Dietrich A, Xing J, Sanders SJ, Mandell JD, Huang AY, Richer P, Smith L, Dong S, Samocha KE, Tourette International Collaborative Genetics (TIC Genetics), … -
Functional Evaluations of Genes Disrupted in Patients with Tourette's Disorder.
Frontiers in psychiatry 2016 Sun N, Tischfield JA, King RA, Heiman GA