Younga Heather Lee

Department Associate

Epidemiology

Other Positions

Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry

Psychiatry-Massachusetts General Hospital

Harvard Medical School

Links

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Overview

Education and Training
Awards and Honors

Postdoc, 04/2023, Psychiatric Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

BA, 05/2014, Psychology, Physics
New York University, New York, NY

PhD, 05/2019, Epidemiology
Brown University, Providence, RI

MGH Hospital-Wide Clinical and Outcomes Research Award2022
Massachusetts General Hospital

Bibliography

The molecular genetic landscape of human brain size variation

Seidlitz J, Mallard TT, Vogel JW, Lee YH, Warrier V, Ball G, Hansson O, Hernandez LM, Mandal AS, Wagstyl K, Lombardo MV, Courchesne E, Glessner JT, Satterthwaite TD, Bethlehem RAI, Lifespan Brain Chart Consortium, Tasaki S, Ng B, Gaiteri C, Smoller JW, Ge T, Gandal MJ, Alexander-Bloch AF.

bioRxiv. 2022.

Trajectories of common mental disorders symptoms before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the ELSA-Brasil COVID-19 Mental Health Cohort.

Fatori D, Suen P, Bacchi P, Afonso L, Klein I, Cavendish BA, Lee YH, Liu Z, Bauermeister J, Moreno ML, Viana MC, Goulart AC, Santos IS, Bauermeister S, Smoller J, Lotufo P, Benseñor IM, Brunoni AR.

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2022 Dec. 57(12):2445-2455. PMID: 36114857

Association of Everyday Discrimination With Depressive Symptoms and Suicidal Ideation During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the All of Us Research Program.

Lee YH, Liu Z, Fatori D, Bauermeister JR, Luh RA, Clark CR, Bauermeister S, Brunoni AR, Smoller JW.

JAMA Psychiatry. 2022 09 01. 79(9):898-906. PMID: 35895053

Impact of selection bias on polygenic risk score estimates in healthcare settings

Lee YH, Thaweethai T, Sheu Y-H, Feng Y-CA, Karlson EW, Ge T, Kraft P, Smoller JW.

medRxiv. 2022.

Effects of social support on depression risk during the COVID-19 pandemic: What support types and for whom?

Choi KW, Lee YH, Liu Z, Fatori D, Bauermeister JR, Luh RA, Clark CR, Brunoni AR, Bauermeister S, Smoller JW.

medRxiv. 2022 May 16. PMID: 35611337

Community-Level Social Support Infrastructure and Adult Onset of Major Depressive Disorder in a South Asian Postconflict Setting.

Axinn WG, Choi KW, Ghimire DJ, Cole F, Hermosilla S, Benjet C, Morgenstern MC, Lee YH, Smoller JW.

JAMA Psychiatry. 2022 Mar 01. 79(3):243-249. PMID: 35080609

Use of the PsycheMERGE Network to Investigate the Association Between Depression Polygenic Scores and White Blood Cell Count.

Sealock JM, Lee YH, Moscati A, Venkatesh S, Voloudakis G, Straub P, Singh K, Feng YA, Ge T, Roussos P, Smoller JW, Chen G, Davis LK.

JAMA Psychiatry. 2021 12 01. 78(12):1365-1374. PMID: 34668925

Clinical laboratory test-wide association scan of polygenic scores identifies biomarkers of complex disease.

Dennis JK, Sealock JM, Straub P, Lee YH, Hucks D, Actkins K, Faucon A, Feng YA, Ge T, Goleva SB, Niarchou M, Singh K, Morley T, Smoller JW, Ruderfer DM, Mosley JD, Chen G, Davis LK.

Genome Med. 2021 01 13. 13(1):6. PMID: 33441150

Feasibility of Using a Nationally Representative Telephone Survey to Monitor Multiple Sclerosis Prevalence in the United States.

Buka SL, Wallin MT, Culpepper WJ, Lee YH, Marrie RA, Nelson LM, Kaye WE, Wagner L, Tremlett H, Campbell J, LaRocca N.

Neuroepidemiology. 2020. 54(2):123-130. PMID: 31991409

Effects of prenatal bacterial infection on cognitive performance in early childhood.

Lee YH, Papandonatos GD, Savitz DA, Heindel WC, Buka SL.

Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol. 2020 01. 34(1):70-79. PMID: 31837043

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