
Younga (Heather) Lee 🇰🇷
@epiheather
Psychiatric epidemiologist · Instructor @CGM_MGH · Interested in selection bias, psychiatric genetics, mental health inequities
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https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/182258 07-08-2019 02:05:08
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Anyone interested in studying HLA in human diseases?📣📣 We (with Soumya Raychaudhuri সৌম্য রায়চৌধুরী) put our love❤️ in HLA into this manuscript describing a thorough protocol for genetic study of HLA, including a step-by-step tutorial for HLA imputation and many statistical methods for association!



During the pandemic, everyday experiences of racial #discrimination tied to serious mental health symptoms. Research from Center for Precision Psychiatry Drs. Younga Lee (Younga (Heather) Lee 🇰🇷), Zhaowen Liu, and Jordan Smoller (Jordan Smoller) ➡️wp.me/pbRGuM-1U1

Thanks MGH Psychiatry for featuring our study!

It’s not too late to join us and 600 friends Center for Precision Psychiatry happening now! Dr Lea Davis @VUMCgenetics is presenting now Nigam Shah will be presenting next followed by 30m of discussion with these two leaders mghcme.org/precision2022/


Join us on Dec. 6 at 12:30 PM for a discussion on Algorithmic Discrimination & Fairness with Holli Sargeant, Deborah Hellman, Ben Green, 𝙷𝚒𝚖𝚊 𝙻𝚊𝚔𝚔𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚓𝚞, and Jonathan Zittrain. cyber.harvard.edu/events/algorit…

Thanks to medical technology, the older American population is growing & living longer than before. AllofUsResearch wants to make sure they’re represented in health data so researchers can find solutions that address their unique needs. #JoinAllofUs at buff.ly/3BsEixr


First lab paper on preprint! Lianyun_Huang worked out the genetic differences between MDD symptom assessed through the PHQ9 and CIDI-SF, see her thread here:

New work led by Yi-han Sheu and Jiehuan Sun with Tianxi Cai, Isaac Kohane Victor Castro and others in which we develop #suicide attempt risk prediction models in multiple clinical settings that avoid temporal bias pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37003169/

Our review on the principles and methods for transferring PRS across populations is out today Nature Reviews Genetics: go.nature.com/3PbbGQ8

Thrilled to be launching the Center for Sucide Research and Prevention at MGH/Harvard with Matthew Nock and an extraordinary team of scientists, clinicians, and diverse stakeholders! news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/… via Harvard University @MGH_RI MGH Psychiatry Center for Precision Psychiatry


Out in The Lancet Reg Health-Europe today #LongCovid After 2 years of work, I'm very excited to share this joint 1st-authored paper w/Shen, Joyce & Didrikson on Severe physical symptoms after #COVID19 infection in 65 000 adults across 4 countries up to 27 months 🧵 thelancet.com/journals/lanep…
