Current Position
Post-doctoral Associate (with Gregory Carter, PhD), The Jackson Laboratory (2025-present)
Previous Positions
Graduate Student (with Dana Crawford, PhD), Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CWRU (2019-2025)
Post-doctoral Scholar (with Dana Crawford), Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, CWRU (2025)
Thesis
GENOMIC AND IMMUNOLOGIC DETERMINANTS IN NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE: INVESTIGATION OF PARKINSON’S DISEASE SEVERITY AND ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE STATUS IN MULTIPLE POPULATIONS
Honors and Awards
2021 Diana Jacobs Kalman/AFAR Scholarship for Research in the Biology of Aging
CWRU PQHS Olson Award 2022 for Outstanding student in Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology
CWRU PQHS Olson Award 2023 for Outstanding student in Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology
Spring 2024 CWRU Biomedical Graduate Student Organization (BGSO) Student of the Semester
2025 CWRU Doctoral Excellence Award in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Recent Publications
- Liu, S, Bush, WS, Kunkle, BW, Byrd, GS, Reitz, C, Tosto, G, Rajabli, F, Caban-Holt, AM, Cuccaro, M, Starks, T et al.. Dissecting Alzheimer's disease heritability across populations. Alzheimers Dement 2026; 22 (3): e71236. PubMed PMID:41880092 PubMed Central PMC13093350.
- Cruz, LA, Liu, S, Miskimen, KL, Cooke Bailey, JN, Kinzy, T, Song, YE, Laux, RA, Miron, P, Ogrocki, PK, Lerner, AJ et al.. Evidence for reduced somatic T-cell receptor sequence diversity profiles among Midwestern Amish in an aging cohort study. medRxiv 2026; : . PubMed PMID:41646721 PubMed Central PMC12870599.
- Durodoye, RO, Ciesielski, TH, Benchek, P, Bartlett, J, Zhu, X, Liu, S, Naj, A, Kunkle, B, Schellenberg, GD, Mayeux, R et al.. Deviations from additivity in APOE4-mediated late-onset Alzheimer's disease risk across races and ethnicities. Hum Genet 2026; 145 (1): 16. PubMed PMID:41569459 PubMed Central PMC12827419.
- Liu, S, Bush, WS, Akinyemi, RO, Byrd, GS, Caban-Holt, AM, Rajabli, F, Reitz, C, Kunkle, BW, Tosto, G, Vance, JM et al.. Alzheimer disease is (sometimes) highly heritable: Drivers of variation in heritability estimates for binary traits, a systematic review. PLoS Genet 2025; 21 (9): e1011701. PubMed PMID:40906820 PubMed Central PMC12419754.
- Liu, S, Bush, WS, Akinyemi, RO, Byrd, GS, Caban-Holt, AM, Rajabli, F, Reitz, C, Kunkle, BW, Tosto, G, Vance, JM et al.. Alzheimer disease is (sometimes) highly heritable: Drivers of variation in heritability estimates for binary traits, a systematic review. medRxiv 2025; : . PubMed PMID:40343016 PubMed Central PMC12060970.
- Liu, S, Gunzler, DD, Gunzler, SA, Crawford, DC, Briggs, FBS. Exploring the early drivers of pain in Parkinson's disease. Sci Rep 2025; 15 (1): 6212. PubMed PMID:39979466 PubMed Central PMC11842595.
- Drouet, DE, Liu, S, Crawford, DC. Assessment of multi-population polygenic risk scores for lipid traits in African Americans. PeerJ 2023; 11 : e14910. PubMed PMID:37214096 PubMed Central PMC10198155.
- Liu, S, Bush, WS, Miskimen, K, Gonzalez-Vicente, A, Bailey, JNC, Konidari, I, McCauley, JL, Sedor, JR, O'Toole, JF, Crawford, DC et al.. T-cell receptor diversity in minimal change disease in the NEPTUNE study. Pediatr Nephrol 2023; 38 (4): 1115-1126. PubMed PMID:35943576 PubMed Central PMC10037226.
- Liu, S, Crawford, DC. Maturation and application of phenome-wide association studies. Trends Genet 2022; 38 (4): 353-363. PubMed PMID:34991903 PubMed Central PMC8930498.
- Kang, Y, Zhou, Y, Li, Y, Han, Y, Xu, J, Niu, W, Li, Z, Liu, S, Feng, H, Huang, W et al.. A human forebrain organoid model of fragile X syndrome exhibits altered neurogenesis and highlights new treatment strategies. Nat Neurosci 2021; 24 (10): 1377-1391. PubMed PMID:34413513 PubMed Central PMC8484073.