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Younga Heather Lee

Department Associate

Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Departments

Department of Epidemiology

Other Positions

Instructor in Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry

Psychiatry-Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Smoller Lab Website

Biography

Younga's Catalyst Profile

Education and Training

Postdoc, Psychiatric Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology
Massachusetts General Hospital
BA, Psychology, Physics
New York University
PhD, Epidemiology
Brown University

Awards and Honors

MGH Hospital-Wide Clinical and Outcomes Research Award, 2022
Massachusetts General Hospital

Publications

Examining the Genetic Links between Clusters of Immune-mediated Diseases and Psychiatric Disorders.

Breunig S, Lee YH, Karlson EW, Krishnan A, Lawrence JM, Schaffer LS, Grotzinger AD. medRxiv 2024 Jul 19
Impact of selection bias on polygenic risk score estimates in healthcare settings.

Lee YH, Thaweethai T, Sheu YH, Feng YA, Karlson EW, Ge T, Kraft P, Smoller JW. Psychol Med 2023
Infections During Pregnancy and Risks for Adult Psychosis: Findings from the New England Family Study.

Buka SL, Lee YH, Goldstein JM. Curr Top Behav Neurosci 2025
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
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 2025

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