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Suhn Kyong Rhie

TitleAssistant Professor of Research Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine
InstitutionUniversity of Southern California
DepartmentMedicine
AddressNRT 1450 Biggy Street
Health Sciences Campus
Los Angeles CA 90033
Phone+1 323 442 8145
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    University of California, Los AngelesB.S.06/2007Biochemistry
    University of Southern CaliforniaPh.D.05/2013Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology
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    2018  - 2021NCI Career Development Award
    2007Women for Change
    2007Ethel Terry McCoy Award for Excellence in Chemistry and Biochemistry

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    Dr. Rhie received her B.S. in Biochemistry, magna cum laude from the University of California, Los Angeles. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Southern California in 2013. She completed her postdoctoral training in the laboratories of Dr. Peter Laird and Dr. Peggy Farnham. Dr. Rhie participated in Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) in different cancer types, unraveling mechanisms that explain how genetic variants affect disease risks. Dr. Rhie characterized heterogeneous tumor tissues as a leader of DNA methylation analysis for The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Consortium and discovered how genetic alterations such as somatic mutations, fusions, copy number variations are associated with epigenetic changes in cancer. She has also led epigenomic data analysis to investigate how transcription factors act at regulatory elements in a 3D nucleome structure in cancer and psychiatric diseases as part of the ENCODE and PsychENCODE Consortia.
    Her current research interests are to characterize key transcription factor and understand roles of regulatory elements activated in different types of cancers and neurodevelopmental diseases. By using both molecular biology and bioinformatics to address how genes are regulated in 3D nucleome structure (e.g. ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, whole genome sequencing, whole genome bisulfite sequencing, NOMe-seq, DNA methylation, Hi-C, CRISPR/Cas9, dCas9-ED systems), her lab is discovering new molecular mechanisms of human diseases that can aid in the development of therapeutics to enhance quality of life for patients.


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    Identification and Clinical Validation of Key Transcription Factor Isoforms Linked to Breast and Prostate Cancer Subgroups using Epigenetic Traits
    NIH/NCI K01CA229995Sep 1, 2018 - Aug 31, 2021
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Guo Y, Perez AA, Hazelett DJ, Coetzee GA, Rhie SK, Farnham PJ. CRISPR-mediated deletion of prostate cancer risk-associated CTCF loop anchors identifies repressive chromatin loops. Genome Biol. 2018 Oct 08; 19(1):160. PMID: 30296942.
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    2. Yang C, Stueve TR, Yan C, Rhie SK, Mullen DJ, Luo J, Zhou B, Borok Z, Marconett CN, Offringa IA. Positional integration of lung adenocarcinoma susceptibility loci with primary human alveolar epithelial cell epigenomes. Epigenomics. 2018 Sep; 10(9):1167-1187. PMID: 30212242.
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    3. Rhie SK, Yao L, Luo Z, Witt H, Schreiner S, Guo Y, Perez AA, Farnham PJ. ZFX acts as a transcriptional activator in multiple types of human tumors by binding downstream of transcription start sites at the majority of CpG island promoters. Genome Res. 2018 Feb 02. PMID: 29429977.
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    4. Rhie SK, Schreiner S, Farnham PJ. Defining Regulatory Elements in the Human Genome Using Nucleosome Occupancy and Methylome Sequencing (NOMe-Seq). Methods Mol Biol. 2018; 1766:209-229. PMID: 29605855.
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    5. Huo D, Hu H, Rhie SK, Gamazon ER, Cherniack AD, Liu J, Yoshimatsu TF, Pitt JJ, Hoadley KA, Troester M, Ru Y, Lichtenberg T, Sturtz LA, Shelley CS, Benz CC, Mills GB, Laird PW, Shriver CD, Perou CM, Olopade OI. Comparison of Breast Cancer Molecular Features and Survival by African and European Ancestry in The Cancer Genome Atlas. JAMA Oncol. 2017 12 01; 3(12):1654-1662. PMID: 28472234.
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    6. Luo Z, Rhie SK, Lay FD, Farnham PJ. A Prostate Cancer Risk Element Functions as a Repressive Loop that Regulates HOXA13. Cell Rep. 2017 Nov 07; 21(6):1411-1417. PMID: 29117547.
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    7. Farshidfar F, Zheng S, Gingras MC, Newton Y, Shih J, Robertson AG, Hinoue T, Hoadley KA, Gibb EA, Roszik J, Covington KR, Wu CC, Shinbrot E, Stransky N, Hegde A, Yang JD, Reznik E, Sadeghi S, Pedamallu CS, Ojesina AI, Hess JM, Auman JT, Rhie SK, Bowlby R, Borad MJ. Integrative Genomic Analysis of Cholangiocarcinoma Identifies Distinct IDH-Mutant Molecular Profiles. Cell Rep. 2017 06 27; 19(13):2878-2880. PMID: 28658632.
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    8. Feng Y, Rhie SK, Huo D, Ruiz-Narvaez EA, Haddad SA, Ambrosone CB, John EM, Bernstein L, Zheng W, Hu JJ, Ziegler RG, Nyante S, Bandera EV, Ingles SA, Press MF, Deming SL, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Zheng Y, Yao S, Han YJ, Ogundiran TO, Rebbeck TR, Adebamowo C, Ojengbede O, Falusi AG, Hennis A, Nemesure B, Ambs S, Blot W, Cai Q, Signorello L, Nathanson KL, Lunetta KL, Sucheston-Campbell LE, Bensen JT, Chanock SJ, Marchand LL, Olshan AF, Kolonel LN, Conti DV, Coetzee GA, Stram DO, Olopade OI, Palmer JR, Haiman CA. Characterizing Genetic Susceptibility to Breast Cancer in Women of African Ancestry. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2017 Jul; 26(7):1016-1026. PMID: 28377418.
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    9. Farshidfar F, Zheng S, Gingras MC, Newton Y, Shih J, Robertson AG, Hinoue T, Hoadley KA, Gibb EA, Roszik J, Covington KR, Wu CC, Shinbrot E, Stransky N, Hegde A, Yang JD, Reznik E, Sadeghi S, Pedamallu CS, Ojesina AI, Hess JM, Auman JT, Rhie SK, Bowlby R, Borad MJ. Integrative Genomic Analysis of Cholangiocarcinoma Identifies Distinct IDH-Mutant Molecular Profiles. Cell Rep. 2017 03 14; 18(11):2780-2794. PMID: 28297679.
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    10. Rhie SK, Guo Y, Tak YG, Yao L, Shen H, Coetzee GA, Laird PW, Farnham PJ. Identification of activated enhancers and linked transcription factors in breast, prostate, and kidney tumors by tracing enhancer networks using epigenetic traits. Epigenetics Chromatin. 2016; 9:50. PMID: 27833659.
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    11. The Molecular Taxonomy of Primary Prostate Cancer. Cell. 2015 Nov 05; 163(4):1011-25. PMID: 26544944; PMCID: PMC4695400 [Available on 11/05/16].
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    12. Ciriello G, Gatza ML, Beck AH, Wilkerson MD, Rhie SK, Pastore A, Zhang H, McLellan M, Yau C, Kandoth C, Bowlby R, Shen H, Hayat S, Fieldhouse R, Lester SC, Tse GM, Factor RE, Collins LC, Allison KH, Chen YY, Jensen K, Johnson NB, Oesterreich S, Mills GB, Cherniack AD, Robertson G, Benz C, Sander C, Laird PW, Hoadley KA, King TA. Comprehensive Molecular Portraits of Invasive Lobular Breast Cancer. Cell. 2015 Oct 08; 163(2):506-19. PMID: 26451490; PMCID: PMC4603750 [Available on 10/08/16].
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    13. Coetzee SG, Shen HC, Hazelett DJ, Lawrenson K, Kuchenbaecker K, Tyrer J, Rhie SK, Levanon K, Karst A, Drapkin R, Ramus SJ. Cell-type-specific enrichment of risk-associated regulatory elements at ovarian cancer susceptibility loci. Hum Mol Genet. 2015 Jul 01; 24(13):3595-607. PMID: 25804953; PMCID: PMC4459387.
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    14. Hoadley KA, Yau C, Wolf DM, Cherniack AD, Tamborero D, Ng S, Leiserson MDM, Niu B, McLellan MD, Uzunangelov V, Zhang J, Kandoth C, Akbani R, Shen H, Omberg L, Chu A, Margolin AA, Van't Veer LJ, Lopez-Bigas N, Laird PW, Raphael BJ, Ding L, Robertson AG, Byers LA, Mills GB, Weinstein JN, Van Waes C, Chen Z, Collisson EA. Multiplatform analysis of 12 cancer types reveals molecular classification within and across tissues of origin. Cell. 2014 Aug 14; 158(4):929-944. PMID: 25109877; PMCID: PMC4152462.
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    15. Feng Y, Stram DO, Rhie SK, Millikan RC, Ambrosone CB, John EM, Bernstein L, Zheng W, Olshan AF, Hu JJ, Ziegler RG, Nyante S, Bandera EV, Ingles SA, Press MF, Deming SL, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Palmer JR, Olopade OI, Huo D, Adebamowo CA, Ogundiran T, Chen GK, Stram A, Park K, Rand KA, Chanock SJ, Le Marchand L, Kolonel LN, Conti DV, Easton D, Henderson BE, Haiman CA. A comprehensive examination of breast cancer risk loci in African American women. Hum Mol Genet. 2014 Oct 15; 23(20):5518-26. PMID: 24852375; PMCID: PMC4168823.
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    16. Rhie SK, Hazelett DJ, Coetzee SG, Yan C, Noushmehr H, Coetzee GA. Nucleosome positioning and histone modifications define relationships between regulatory elements and nearby gene expression in breast epithelial cells. BMC Genomics. 2014 May 02; 15:331. PMID: 24885402; PMCID: PMC4035062.
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    17. Hazelett DJ, Rhie SK, Gaddis M, Yan C, Lakeland DL, Coetzee SG. Comprehensive functional annotation of 77 prostate cancer risk loci. PLoS Genet. 2014 Jan; 10(1):e1004102. PMID: 24497837; PMCID: PMC3907334.
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    18. The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project. Nat Genet. 2013 Oct; 45(10):1113-20. PMID: 24071849; PMCID: PMC3919969.
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    19. Rhie SK, Coetzee SG, Noushmehr H, Yan C, Kim JM, Haiman CA, Coetzee GA. Comprehensive functional annotation of seventy-one breast cancer risk Loci. PLoS One. 2013; 8(5):e63925. PMID: 23717510; PMCID: PMC3661550.
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    20. Monda KL, Chen GK, Taylor KC, Palmer C, Edwards TL, Lange LA, Ng MC, Adeyemo AA, Allison MA, Bielak LF, Chen G, Graff M, Irvin MR, Rhie SK, Li G, Liu Y, Liu Y, Lu Y, Nalls MA, Sun YV, Wojczynski MK, Yanek LR, Aldrich MC, Ademola A, Amos CI, Bandera EV, Bock CH, Britton A, Broeckel U, Cai Q, Caporaso NE, Carlson CS, Carpten J, Casey G, Chen WM, Chen F, Chen YD, Chiang CW, Coetzee GA, Demerath E, Deming-Halverson SL, Driver RW, Dubbert P, Feitosa MF, Feng Y, Freedman BI, Gillanders EM, Gottesman O, Guo X, Haritunians T, Harris T, Harris CC, Hennis AJ, Hernandez DG, McNeill LH, Howard TD, Howard BV, Howard VJ, Johnson KC, Kang SJ, Keating BJ, Kolb S, Kuller LH, Kutlar A, Langefeld CD, Lettre G, Lohman K, Lotay V, Lyon H, Manson JE, Maixner W, Meng YA, Monroe KR, Morhason-Bello I, Murphy AB, Mychaleckyj JC, Nadukuru R, Nathanson KL, Nayak U, N'diaye A, Nemesure B, Wu SY, Leske MC, Neslund-Dudas C, Neuhouser M, Nyante S, Ochs-Balcom H, Ogunniyi A, Ogundiran TO, Ojengbede O, Olopade OI, Palmer JR, Ruiz-Narvaez EA, Palmer ND, Press MF, Rampersaud E, Rasmussen-Torvik LJ, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Salako B, Schadt EE, Schwartz AG, Shriner DA, Siscovick D, Smith SB, Wassertheil-Smoller S, Speliotes EK, Spitz MR, Sucheston L, Taylor H, Tayo BO, Tucker MA, Van Den Berg DJ, Edwards DR, Wang Z, Wiencke JK, Winkler TW, Witte JS, Wrensch M, Wu X, Yang JJ, Levin AM, Young TR, Zakai NA, Cushman M, Zanetti KA, Zhao JH, Zhao W, Zheng Y, Zhou J, Ziegler RG, Zmuda JM, Fernandes JK, Gilkeson GS, Kamen DL, Hunt KJ, Spruill IJ, Ambrosone CB, Ambs S, Arnett DK, Atwood L, Becker DM, Berndt SI, Bernstein L, Blot WJ, Borecki IB, Bottinger EP, Bowden DW, Burke G, Chanock SJ, Cooper RS, Ding J, Duggan D, Evans MK, Fox C, Garvey WT, Bradfield JP, Hakonarson H, Grant SF, Hsing A, Chu L, Hu JJ, Huo D, Ingles SA, John EM, Jordan JM, Kabagambe EK, Kardia SL, Kittles RA, Goodman PJ, Klein EA, Kolonel LN, Le Marchand L, Liu S, McKnight B, Millikan RC, Mosley TH, Padhukasahasram B, Williams LK, Patel SR, Peters U, Pettaway CA, Peyser PA, Psaty BM, Redline S, Rotimi CN, Rybicki BA, Sale MM, Schreiner PJ, Signorello LB, Singleton AB, Stanford JL, Strom SS, Thun MJ, Vitolins M, Zheng W, Moore JH, Williams SM, Ketkar S, Zhu X, Zonderman AB. A meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with body mass index in individuals of African ancestry. Nat Genet. 2013 Jun; 45(6):690-6. PMID: 23583978.
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    21. Garcia-Closas M, Couch FJ, Lindstrom S, Michailidou K, Schmidt MK, Brook MN, Orr N, Rhie SK, Riboli E, Feigelson HS, Le Marchand L, Buring JE, Eccles D, Miron P, Fasching PA, Brauch H, Chang-Claude J, Carpenter J, Godwin AK, Nevanlinna H, Giles GG, Cox A, Hopper JL, Bolla MK, Wang Q, Dennis J, Dicks E, Howat WJ, Schoof N, Bojesen SE, Lambrechts D, Broeks A, Andrulis IL, Guénel P, Burwinkel B, Sawyer EJ, Hollestelle A, Fletcher O, Winqvist R, Brenner H, Mannermaa A, Hamann U, Meindl A, Lindblom A, Zheng W, Devillee P, Goldberg MS, Lubinski J, Kristensen V, Swerdlow A, Anton-Culver H, Dörk T, Muir K, Matsuo K, Wu AH, Radice P, Teo SH, Shu XO, Blot W, Kang D, Hartman M, Sangrajrang S, Shen CY, Southey MC, Park DJ, Hammet F, Stone J, Veer LJ, Rutgers EJ, Lophatananon A, Stewart-Brown S, Siriwanarangsan P, Peto J, Schrauder MG, Ekici AB, Beckmann MW, Dos Santos Silva I, Johnson N, Warren H, Tomlinson I, Kerin MJ, Miller N, Marme F, Schneeweiss A, Sohn C, Truong T, Laurent-Puig P, Kerbrat P, Nordestgaard BG, Nielsen SF, Flyger H, Milne RL, Perez JI, Menéndez P, Müller H, Arndt V, Stegmaier C, Lichtner P, Lochmann M, Justenhoven C, Ko YD. Genome-wide association studies identify four ER negative-specific breast cancer risk loci. Nat Genet. 2013 Apr; 45(4):392-8, 398e1-2. PMID: 23535733.
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    22. Siddiq A, Couch FJ, Chen GK, Lindström S, Eccles D, Millikan RC, Michailidou K, Stram DO, Beckmann L, Rhie SK, Ambrosone CB, Aittomäki K, Amiano P, Apicella C. A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of breast cancer identifies two novel susceptibility loci at 6q14 and 20q11. Hum Mol Genet. 2012 Dec 15; 21(24):5373-84. PMID: 22976474; PMCID: PMC3510753.
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    23. Chen F, Chen GK, Stram DO, Millikan RC, Ambrosone CB, John EM, Bernstein L, Zheng W, Palmer JR, Hu JJ, Rebbeck TR, Ziegler RG, Nyante S, Bandera EV, Ingles SA, Press MF, Ruiz-Narvaez EA, Deming SL, Rodriguez-Gil JL, Demichele A, Chanock SJ, Blot W, Signorello L, Cai Q, Li G, Long J, Huo D, Zheng Y, Cox NJ, Olopade OI, Ogundiran TO, Adebamowo C, Nathanson KL, Domchek SM, Simon MS, Hennis A, Nemesure B, Wu SY, Leske MC, Ambs S, Hutter CM, Young A, Kooperberg C, Peters U, Rhie SK, Wan P, Sheng X, Pooler LC, Van Den Berg DJ, Le Marchand L, Kolonel LN, Henderson BE, Haiman CA. A genome-wide association study of breast cancer in women of African ancestry. Hum Genet. 2013 Jan; 132(1):39-48. PMID: 22923054; PMCID: PMC3749077.
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    24. Coetzee SG, Rhie SK, Berman BP, Coetzee GA, Noushmehr H. FunciSNP: an R/bioconductor tool integrating functional non-coding data sets with genetic association studies to identify candidate regulatory SNPs. Nucleic Acids Res. 2012 Oct; 40(18):e139. PMID: 22684628; PMCID: PMC3467035.
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    25. Peter AK, Ko CY, Kim MH, Hsu N, Ouchi N, Rhie S, Izumiya Y, Zeng L, Walsh K, Crosbie RH. Myogenic Akt signaling upregulates the utrophin-glycoprotein complex and promotes sarcolemma stability in muscular dystrophy. Hum Mol Genet. 2009 Jan 15; 18(2):318-27. PMID: 18986978; PMCID: PMC2638781.
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