Leying Guan
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Assistant Professor of Biostatistics (Biostatistics)
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Leying Guan is an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics at Yale University. She received her Ph.D from the Statistics department at Stanford in 2019. Her research primarily focuses on high dimensional statsitics, robust statistical learning, statistical inference and developing statistical and machine learning methods driven by scientific applications including genetics, immunology, and computational neuroscience.
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Biostatistics
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- Biostatistics
- Center for Infection and Immunity
- Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics
- Yale Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
- Yale School of Public Health
Research
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High-dimensional Statistics; Statistical Inference; Outlier Detection; Machine Learning and Data Science; Statistical Genetics; Computational Neuroscience; Statistical Analysis of Immune Signatures in Human infection.
Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)
Computational Biology; Epigenomics; Gene Regulatory Networks; Genetics; Immune System Diseases; Machine Learning; Neurosciences; Statistics
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0000-0003-0609-1073
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Steven Kleinstein, PhD
Ruth R Montgomery, PhD
David A. Hafler, MD, FANA
Akiko Iwasaki, PhD
Albert Ko, MD
Brent Vander Wyk, PhD
20Publications
402Citations
Computational Biology
Machine Learning
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2024
Integrated longitudinal multiomics study identifies immune programs associated with acute COVID-19 severity and mortality
Gygi J, Maguire C, Patel R, Shinde P, Konstorum A, Shannon C, Xu L, Hoch A, Jayavelu N, Haddad E, Network I, Reed E, Kraft M, McComsey G, Metcalf J, Ozonoff A, Esserman D, Cairns C, Rouphael N, Bosinger S, Kim-Schulze S, Krammer F, Rosen L, van Bakel H, Wilson M, Eckalbar W, Maecker H, Langelier C, Steen H, Altman M, Montgomery R, Levy O, Melamed E, Pulendran B, Diray-Arce J, Smolen K, Fragiadakis G, Becker P, Sekaly R, Ehrlich L, Fourati S, Peters B, Kleinstein S, Guan L. Integrated longitudinal multiomics study identifies immune programs associated with acute COVID-19 severity and mortality. Journal Of Clinical Investigation 2024, 134: e176640. PMID: 38690733, PMCID: PMC11060740, DOI: 10.1172/jci176640.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsClinical outcomesImmune cascadeElevated levels of inflammatory cytokinesDisease severityLevels of inflammatory cytokinesFormation of neutrophil extracellular trapsAcute COVID-19 severityCritically ill patientsNeutrophil extracellular trapsDevelopment of therapiesCOVID-19 cohortCOVID-19 severityViral clearanceImmunosuppressive metabolitesDeep immunophenotypingMultiomic modelIFN-stimulated genesImmunophenotypic assessmentB cellsDisease courseEarly upregulationInflammatory cytokinesDisease progressionIFN inhibitorsExtracellular trapsA supervised Bayesian factor model for the identification of multi-omics signatures
Gygi J, Konstorum A, Pawar S, Aron E, Kleinstein S, Guan L. A supervised Bayesian factor model for the identification of multi-omics signatures. Bioinformatics 2024, 40: btae202. PMID: 38603606, PMCID: PMC11078774, DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btae202.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsMulti-omics signaturesBayesian factor modelMulti-omics dataMulti-omics integrationSupplementary dataOmics datasetsMulti-omicsProfiling datasetsR packageDiverse assaysImproved biological understandingProfiling assaysSignature discoveryBioinformaticsProfiling studiesBiological understandingDimensionality reductionBiological responsesBiological signaturesCombination of dimensionality reductionA multi-omics systems vaccinology resource to develop and test computational models of immunity
Shinde P, Soldevila F, Reyna J, Aoki M, Rasmussen M, Willemsen L, Kojima M, Ha B, Greenbaum J, Overton J, Guzman-Orozco H, Nili S, Orfield S, Gygi J, da Silva Antunes R, Sette A, Grant B, Olsen L, Konstorum A, Guan L, Ay F, Kleinstein S, Peters B. A multi-omics systems vaccinology resource to develop and test computational models of immunity. Cell Reports Methods 2024, 4: 100731. PMID: 38490204, PMCID: PMC10985234, DOI: 10.1016/j.crmeth.2024.100731.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetric
2023
Smooth and Probabilistic PARAFAC Model with Auxiliary Covariates
Guan L. Smooth and Probabilistic PARAFAC Model with Auxiliary Covariates. Journal Of Computational And Graphical Statistics 2023, 33: 538-550. DOI: 10.1080/10618600.2023.2257783.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchAltmetricEarly cellular and molecular signatures correlate with severity of West Nile virus infection
Lee H, Zhao Y, Fleming I, Mehta S, Wang X, Vander Wyk B, Ronca S, Kang H, Chou C, Fatou B, Smolen K, Levy O, Clish C, Xavier R, Steen H, Hafler D, Love J, Shalek A, Guan L, Murray K, Kleinstein S, Montgomery R. Early cellular and molecular signatures correlate with severity of West Nile virus infection. IScience 2023, 26: 108387. PMID: 38047068, PMCID: PMC10692672, DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108387.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricConceptsWest Nile virusEffective anti-viral responseInnate immune cell typesWest Nile virus infectionPro-inflammatory markersAcute time pointsImmune cell typesAnti-viral responseMolecular signaturesHost cellular activitiesAcute infectionAsymptomatic donorsPeripheral bloodSevere infectionsVirus infectionImmune responseSevere casesCell activityIll individualsSerum proteomicsInfectionInfection severityHigh expressionTime pointsNile virusDistinguishing features of long COVID identified through immune profiling
Klein J, Wood J, Jaycox J, Dhodapkar R, Lu P, Gehlhausen J, Tabachnikova A, Greene K, Tabacof L, Malik A, Silva Monteiro V, Silva J, Kamath K, Zhang M, Dhal A, Ott I, Valle G, Peña-Hernández M, Mao T, Bhattacharjee B, Takahashi T, Lucas C, Song E, McCarthy D, Breyman E, Tosto-Mancuso J, Dai Y, Perotti E, Akduman K, Tzeng T, Xu L, Geraghty A, Monje M, Yildirim I, Shon J, Medzhitov R, Lutchmansingh D, Possick J, Kaminski N, Omer S, Krumholz H, Guan L, Dela Cruz C, van Dijk D, Ring A, Putrino D, Iwasaki A. Distinguishing features of long COVID identified through immune profiling. Nature 2023, 623: 139-148. PMID: 37748514, PMCID: PMC10620090, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06651-y.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsLong COVIDSARS-CoV-2Infection syndromeExaggerated humoral responseSoluble immune mediatorsEpstein-Barr virusPost-exertional malaiseCross-sectional studyHigher antibody responseImmune mediatorsImmune phenotypingImmune profilingHumoral responseAntibody responseLymphocyte populationsCOVID statusUnbiased machineCortisol levelsLC statusRelevant biomarkersViral pathogensSyndromeCOVIDFuture studiesBiological featuresPredictive overfitting in immunological applications: Pitfalls and solutions
Gygi J, Kleinstein S, Guan L. Predictive overfitting in immunological applications: Pitfalls and solutions. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics 2023, 19: 2251830. PMID: 37697867, PMCID: PMC10498807, DOI: 10.1080/21645515.2023.2251830.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsMulti-omic longitudinal study reveals immune correlates of clinical course among hospitalized COVID-19 patients
Diray-Arce J, Fourati S, Jayavelu N, Patel R, Maguire C, Chang A, Dandekar R, Qi J, Lee B, van Zalm P, Schroeder A, Chen E, Konstorum A, Brito A, Gygi J, Kho A, Chen J, Pawar S, Gonzalez-Reiche A, Hoch A, Milliren C, Overton J, Westendorf K, Network I, Abraham J, Adkisson M, Albert M, Torres L, Alvarenga B, Anderson M, Anderson E, Arnett A, Asashima H, Atkinson M, Baden L, Barton B, Beach K, Beagle E, Becker P, Bell M, Bernui M, Bime C, Kumar A, Booth L, Borresen B, Brakenridge S, Bristow L, Bryant R, Calfee C, Manuel J, Carrillo S, Chak S, Chang I, Connors J, Conway M, Corry D, Cowan D, Croen B, Dela Cruz C, Cusimano G, Eaker L, Edwards C, Ehrlich L, Elashoff D, Erickson H, Erle D, Farhadian S, Farrugia K, Fatou B, Fernandes A, Fernandez-Sesma A, Fragiadakis G, Furukawa S, Geltman J, Ghale R, Bermúdez M, Goonewardene M, Sanchez E, Guirgis F, Hafler D, Hamilton S, Harris P, Nemati A, Hendrickson C, Agudelo N, Hodder T, Holland S, Hough C, Huerta C, Hurley K, Hutton S, Iwasaki A, Jauregui A, Jha M, Johnson B, Joyner D, Kangelaris K, Kelly G, Khalil Z, Khan Z, Kheradmand F, Kim J, Kimura H, Ko A, Kohr B, Kraft M, Krummel M, Kutzler M, Lasky-Su J, Lee S, Lee D, Leipold M, Lentucci C, Leroux C, Lin E, Liu S, Love C, Lu Z, Maliskova L, Roth B, Manohar M, Martens M, McComsey G, McEnaney K, McLin R, Melamed E, Melnyk N, Mendez K, Messer W, Metcalf J, Michelotti G, Mick E, Mohanty S, Mosier J, Mulder L, Murphy M, Nadeau K, Nelson E, Nelson A, Nguyen V, Oberhaus J, Panganiban B, Pellegrini K, Pickering H, Powell D, Presnell S, Pulendran B, Rahman A, Sadeed A, Raskin A, Reed E, Pereira S, Rivera A, Rogers J, Rogers A, Rogowski B, Rooks R, Rosenberg-Hasson Y, Rothman J, Rousseau J, Salehi-Rad R, Saluvan M, Samaha H, Schaenman J, Schunk R, Semenza N, Sen S, Sevransky J, Seyfert-Margolis V, Shaheen T, Shaw A, Sieg S, Siegel S, Sigal N, Siles N, Simmons B, Simon V, Singh G, Sinko L, Smith C, Smolen K, Song L, Srivastava K, Sullivan P, Syphurs C, Tcheou J, Tegos G, Tharp G, Ally A, Tsitsiklis A, Ungaro R, Vaysman T, Viode A, Vita R, Wang X, Ward A, Ward D, Willmore A, Woloszczuk K, Wong K, Woodruff P, Xu L, van Haren S, van de Guchte A, Zhao Y, Cairns C, Rouphael N, Bosinger S, Kim-Schulze S, Krammer F, Rosen L, Grubaugh N, van Bakel H, Wilson M, Rajan J, Steen H, Eckalbar W, Cotsapas C, Langelier C, Levy O, Altman M, Maecker H, Montgomery R, Haddad E, Sekaly R, Esserman D, Ozonoff A, Becker P, Augustine A, Guan L, Peters B, Kleinstein S. Multi-omic longitudinal study reveals immune correlates of clinical course among hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Cell Reports Medicine 2023, 4: 101079. PMID: 37327781, PMCID: PMC10203880, DOI: 10.1016/j.xcrm.2023.101079.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsDisease courseFatal COVID-19 diseaseHospitalized COVID-19 patientsSevere disease courseCOVID-19 participantsCOVID-19 patientsTrajectory groupsHost immune responseCOVID-19 diseaseImmune correlatesAcute infectionClinical courseHospital admissionClinical outcomesFatal outcomeClinical prognosisImmune responseSevere diseaseLongitudinal bloodNasal samplesBiologic stateLongitudinal studyDistinct assaysCohortMolecular signaturesSmooth and probabilistic PARAFAC model with auxiliary covariates
Leying Guan (2023) Smooth and Probabilistic PARAFAC Model with Auxiliary Covariates, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, DOI: 10.1080/10618600.2023.2257783Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2022
Localized conformal prediction: a generalized inference framework for conformal prediction
Guan L. Localized conformal prediction: a generalized inference framework for conformal prediction. Biometrika 2022, 110: 33-50. DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asac040.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetric
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