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Biology and Biochemistry

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95
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28059
World Ranking
1936
National Ranking
1061

Medicine

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95
Citations
28691
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10172
National Ranking
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Overview

Young S. Kim is affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, with a primary focus on psychology, neuroscience, and medicine. Within these broad domains, Kim's work delves into specialized subfields including cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, education, psychiatry and mental health, as well as pediatrics, perinatology, and child health.

Their scholarly contributions address several key topics such as autism spectrum disorder research, family and disability support research, child development and digital technology, child nutrition and feeding issues, genetics and neurodevelopmental disorders, virology and viral diseases, and mental health treatment and access.

Kim has published extensively, with notable frequent publication venues including JAACAP Open, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Molecular Autism, the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, and the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.

Frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated include Bennett Leventhal, Somer Bishop, Hosanna Kim, Yun-Joo Koh, and Bora Kim.

Selected recent papers by Young S. Kim demonstrate a consistent focus on autism spectrum disorder and related neurodevelopmental topics. These include:

  • "Prevalence and cumulative incidence of autism spectrum disorders and the patterns of co-occurring neurodevelopmental disorders in a total population sample of 5-year-old children," 2020, Molecular Autism
  • "Sex differences in scores on standardized measures of autism symptoms: a multisite integrative data analysis," 2020, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
  • "Prevalence of and Factors Associated with School Bullying in Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Cross-Cultural Meta-Analysis," 2020, Yonsei Medical Journal
  • "Prenatal exposure to paternal smoking and likelihood for autism spectrum disorder," 2021, Autism
  • "CRISIS AFAR: an international collaborative study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and service access in youth with autism and neurodevelopmental conditions," 2023, Molecular Autism

Best Publications

  • Heterogeneity of Mucin Gene Expression in Normal and Neoplastic Tissues

    Samuel B. Ho;Gloria A. Niehans;Carolyn Lyftogt;Pei Sha Yan

  • Expression of Tn, sialosyl-Tn, and T antigens in human colon cancer

    Steven H. Itzkowitz;Mei Yuan;Carolyn K. Montgomery;Thomas Kjeldsen

  • Molecular cloning of human intestinal mucin cDNAs. Sequence analysis and evidence for genetic polymorphism.

    J. R. Gum;James Byrd;J. W. Hicks;N. W. Toribara

  • BRAF Mutation Is Frequently Present in Sporadic Colorectal Cancer with Methylated hMLH1, But Not in Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer

    Guoren Deng;Ian Bell;Suzanne Crawley;James Gum

  • Molecular cloning of human intestinal mucin (MUC2) cDNA. Identification of the amino terminus and overall sequence similarity to prepro-von Willebrand factor.

    J R Gum;J W Hicks;N W Toribara;B Siddiki

  • Cord-blood transplants from unrelated donors in patients with Hurler's syndrome.

    Susan L. Staba;Maria L. Escolar;Michele Poe;Young Kim

  • Sialosyl-Tn : a novel mucin antigen associated with prognosis in colorectal cancer patients

    Steven H. Itzkowitz;Elana J. Bloom;William A. Kokal;Gunnard Modin

  • Methylation of CpG in a Small Region of the hMLH1 Promoter Invariably Correlates with the Absence of Gene Expression

    Guoren Deng;Ada Chen;Joe Hong;Hiun Suk Chae

  • Human gastric mucin. Identification of a unique species by expression cloning.

    Neil W. Toribara;Anthony M. Roberton;Samuel B. Ho;Wen Lin Kuo

  • Alterations in human colonic mucin occurring with cellular differentiation and malignant transformation

    C R Boland;C K Montgomery;Y S Kim

  • Molecular cloning of cDNAs derived from a novel human intestinal mucin gene.

    James R. Gum;James W. Hicks;James W. Hicks;Dallas M. Swallow;Robert L. Lagace;Robert L. Lagace

  • Mucin glycoproteins in neoplasia

    Young S. Kim;James Gum;James Gum;Inka Brockhausen

  • Mucin Gene Expression in Normal, Preneoplastic, and Neoplastic Human Gastric Epithelium

    Samuel B. Ho;Laurie L. Shekels;Neil W. Toribara;Young S. Kim

  • Transcriptional activation of mucin by Pseudomonas aeruginosa lipopolysaccharide in the pathogenesis of cystic fibrosis lung disease

    Jian-Dong Li;Austin F. Dohrman;Marianne Gallup;Susumu Miyata

  • The human MUC2 intestinal mucin has cysteine-rich subdomains located both upstream and downstream of its central repetitive region.

    Jr Jr Gum;JW Hicks;NW Toribara;EM Rothe

  • Aberrant expression of MUC5AC and MUC6 gastric mucins and sialyl Tn antigen in intraepithelial neoplasms of the pancreas.

    Grace E. Kim;Han–Ik Bae;Han–Ik Bae;Hee–Ug Park;Hee–Ug Park;Shih–Fan Kuan

  • Effects of sodium butyrate and dimethylsulfoxide on biochemical properties of human colon cancer cells.

    Young S. Kim;Dean Tsao;Bader Siddiqui;James S. Whitehead

  • A comparison of three immunoperoxidase techniques for antigen detection in colorectal carcinoma tissues.

    Zuo-Rong Shi;S. H. Itzkowitz;Y. S. Kim

  • Targets for indole-3-carbinol in cancer prevention

    Young S. Kim;J.A. Milner

  • Biosynthesis of human colonic mucin: Muc2 is the prominent secretory mucin.

    Kristien M.A.J. Tytgat;Hans A. Büller;Frank J.M. Opdam;Young S. Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

James R. Gum
James R. Gum University of California, San Francisco
James W. Hicks
James W. Hicks University of Southern California
Steven H. Itzkowitz
Steven H. Itzkowitz Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Samuel B. Ho
Samuel B. Ho Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences
Dallas M. Swallow
Dallas M. Swallow University College London
C. Richard Boland
C. Richard Boland University of California, San Diego
Rajvir Dahiya
Rajvir Dahiya University of California, San Francisco
Sen-itiroh Hakomori
Sen-itiroh Hakomori Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute
Jian-Dong Li
Jian-Dong Li Georgia State University
Lance A. Liotta
Lance A. Liotta George Mason University

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