Hyejung Won

Employment

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Associate Professor
  2023 - Present
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Assistant Professor
  2018 - 2023
• University of California, Los Angeles Postdoctoral Scholar
  2013 - 2018

Education

• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Ph.D.
  2008 - 2013
• Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology B.S.
  2004 - 2008

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (74)

• A single-cell eQTL atlas of the developing human brain
  2026 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9011993/v1
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• Myelination across the autism spectrum: therapeutic targeting of the oligodendrocyte lineage and myelination defects
  Neuropsychopharmacology 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-025-02209-w
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• Comprehensive analysis of pseudogene expression in human and macaque brains compared with other tissues
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.09.02.673826
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• The Psychiatric Genomics Consortium: discoveries and directions.
  Arpana Agrawal A, Cynthia Marie Bulik, Dawit Abebe +36 more
  The lancet. Psychiatry 2025 DOI: 10.1016/s2215-0366(25)00124-5
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• Significance in scale space for Hi-C data.
  Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 2025 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf026
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• Massively parallel assessment of gene regulatory activity at human cortical structure associated variants
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.08.635393
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• Just a SNP away: The future of in vivo massively parallel reporter assay
  Cell Insight 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.cellin.2024.100214
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• Massively parallel reporter assay investigates shared genetic variants of eight psychiatric disorders.
  Cell 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.12.022
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• Deciphering the impact of genomic variation on function.
  Writing group (ordered by contribution), J Engreitz, Heather A. Lawson +97 more
  Nature 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07510-0
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• Smoking-informed methylation and expression QTLs in human brain and colocalization with smoking-associated genetic loci.
  Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-024-01885-4
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• Single-cell genomics and regulatory networks for 388 human brains.
  Prashant S. Emani, Jason J. Liu, Declan Clarke

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  • Matthew Jensen
  • Jonathan Warrell
  • Chirag Gupta
  • Ran Meng
  • Che-Yu Lee
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  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2024 DOI: 10.1126/science.adi5199
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• Etiologic heterogeneity, pleiotropy, and polygenicity in behaviorally defined intellectual and developmental disabilities.
  Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders 2024 DOI: 10.1186/s11689-024-09526-z
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• The genetic relationships between brain structure and schizophrenia
  Nature Communications 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-43567-7
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• Genetic discovery and functional validation of ancestry-specific variants for improved polygenic risk score portability
  2023 DOI: 10.48321/D1MH2G
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• Systematic investigation of allelic regulatory activity of schizophrenia-associated common variants.
  Cell genomics 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.xgen.2023.100404
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• Chromosomal contacts change with age.
  Science (New York, N.Y.) 2023 DOI: 10.1126/science.adk0961
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• Genetic insights into human cortical organization and development through genome-wide analyses of 2,347 neuroimaging phenotypes.
  Nature genetics 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s41588-023-01475-y
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• Chromatin loop dynamics during cellular differentiation are associated with changes to both anchor and internal regulatory features
  Marielle L. Bond, Eric S. Davis, Ivana Yoseli Quiroga

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  • Anubha Dey
  • Manjari Kiran
  • Michael I. Love
  • Hyejung Won
  • Douglas H. Phanstiel
  Genome Research 2023 DOI: 10.1101/gr.277397.122
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• Genetics of varicose veins reveals polygenic architecture and genetic overlap with arterial and venous disease.
  Nature cardiovascular research 2023 DOI: 10.1038/s44161-022-00196-5
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• Common Alleles: Next Steps in the Study of Common Variants
  2023
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