Welcome to An Lab at Korea University

We are a computational genomics lab studying the etiology of developmental disorders and complex human diseases using high-dimensional genomic data. Our lab utilises a range of genomics and systems biology approaches to better understand regulatory features and cellular trajectory underlying disease development.

We focus on:

  • Understanding the genetic architecture of autism.
  • Leveraging whole genome sequencing (WGS) and single cell analyses to understand neurodevelopment and disorders.
  • Integrating multiomics data to better understand genetic heterogeneity in human disorders.

Technologies and methods

The An Lab is primarily a computational biology group that uses a wide range of genomic, bioinformatic, and statistical methods including: whole-genome sequencing, single cell RNA/ATAC-seq, multi-omics, and cloud computing.

Collaborators

We work with closely with international collaborators, including the Sanders Lab at Oxford, the Werling lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Minah Kim Lab at Columbia University. Our team is a part of the Korean autism WGS consortium and closely collaborates with Prof. Hee Jeong Yoo at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital.

Joining An Lab

If you are interested in joining please go to the join us page.

Funding

We are grateful for funding from the National Research Foundation of Korea and Korea Dementia Research Center.

News

Oct 11th 2024

We wrote a Perspective on the recent study by Maury et al. (2024) in Science. (link).

Oct 3rd 2024

BTS (Brain Transcriptome at the Single-cell level) atlas paper is published. Let's dive which genes are expressed in different cells across brain development (link).

Sep 27th 2024

Excited to announce our latest publication in Genome Medicine, revealing sex differences in genetic patterns contributing to phenotypic diversity in autism through the largest Korean WGS cohort study. (link).

Sep 5th 2024

Congrat Joon for the Rising Star Award at Korea Genome Organization!🎉

Aug 25th 2024

Seoyeon, Jungeun and Eunhyong successfully completed their Master's program. We wish much success in your next chapter!

Aug 15th 2024

Excited to share our latest research on whole-genome doubling in cancer! We've uncovered new insights into the proteogenomic landscape of WGD across various cancer types. 🧬🔬 (link).

Jul 8th 2024

Huge congratulations to Hyeji and Yebin for being selected as NRF Graduate Fellowship recipients! 🎉

Jul 5th 2024

CWAS-Plus 🧬 – a powerful Python package finding noncoding association in WGS data is published in Briefings in Bioinformatics! (link).

Jun 27th 2024

Congrat Eunhyong for the Young Scientist Award and Best Posters Award for the KHUPO2024!🎉

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