Lin Lab Genetic Epidemiology and Precision Psychiatry

Center for Neuropsychiatric Research, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan

國家衛生研究院神經及精神醫學研究中心

遺傳流病與精準精神醫學研究室

Principal Investigator

Yen-Feng Lin, MD ScD

林彥鋒

Associate Investigator Attending Physician,
Center for Neuropsychiatric Research,
National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
E-mail: yflin@nhri.edu.tw

Dr. Lin is a board-certified psychiatrist and genetic epidemiologist in Taiwan. He received his ScD degree from the Department of Epidemiology, Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Lin’s research interests lie in precision psychiatry and genetic epidemiology of psychiatric, substance use, and neurocognitive disorders. His work centers on analyzing large-scale GWAS and epidemiological data to identify the genetic determinants of psychiatric disorders, examine the genetic overlap between different phenotypes, and establish causal relationships between genetic and environmental factors, as well as clinical phenotypes. He also aims to utilize omics, informatics, and artificial intelligence to promote precision psychiatry and achieve better treatment outcomes.

NEWS

October 14, 2024
"Digital transformation of mental health therapy by integrating digitalized cognitive behavioral therapy and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing" is published in Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing.

September 10, 2024
"Associations of polygenic risk for depression, traditional Chinese medicine constitution, and depression: A population-based study in Taiwan" is published in American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B-Neuropsychiatric Genetics.

September, 2024
"Fine-mapping across diverse ancestries drives the discovery of putative causal variants underlying human complex traits and diseases" is published in Nature Genetics.

June 28, 2024
We are awarded the NSTC International Outstanding Young Scholars Grant on research project "Leading International Collaboration in Precision Medicine for MDD: A Novel Genomic-Epigenomic Approach with Clinical, Consortium, and Biobank Data."
「引領憂鬱症精準醫學之國際合作：結合臨床、聯盟與生物資料庫的創新基因-表觀遺傳學研究」獲國科會「國際年輕傑出學者研究計畫」補助獎勵。

May 1, 2024
We are recruiting participants for a depression study involving rTMS treatment. 憂鬱症rTMS治療研究受試者招募中。

March 8, 2024
"Shared genetic architectures of educational attainment in East Asian and European populations" is published in Nature Human Behaviour.

December 13, 2023
"Analysis across Taiwan Biobank, Biobank Japan, and UK Biobank identifies hundreds of novel loci for 36 quantitative traits" is published in Cell Genomics.

November 30, 2023
PhD Student Chueh-Chun Yeh won 2nd place in the oral presentation competition at the 2023 NTHU-NHRI Joint International Research Conference.

November 5, 2023
Dr. An-Nie Chung was awarded the Best Poster Presentation at 2023 annual meeting of Taiwanese Society of Psychiatry.

March 21, 2023 
Ms. Chiu-Ping Fang received the NHRI best research assistant honorable mention award.

March 2, 2023
"Genetics of antidepressant response and treatment-resistant depression" is published in Progress in Brain Research.

January, 2023
"Splice-site variants in the gene encoding GABA-A receptor delta subunit are associated with amphetamine use in patients under methadone maintenance treatment" is published in International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

December 15, 2022
"Causal influence of dietary habits on the risk of major depressive disorder: A diet-wide Mendelian randomization analysis" is published in Journal of Affective Disorders.

November 9, 2022
"Taiwan Biobank: A rich biomedical research database of the Taiwanese population" is published in Cell Genomics.

October 12, 2022
"Global biobank meta-analysis initiative: Powering genetic discovery across human disease" is published in Cell Genomics.

September 03, 2022
Dr. Yen-Feng Lin received 2022 Taiwanese Society of Biological Psychiatry and Neuropsychopharmacology (TSBPN) Dr. Paul Janssen Research Award.

July 04, 2022
"Improving polygenic prediction in ancestrally diverse populations" is published in Nature Genetics.

March 23, 2022
Dr. Shu-Chin Lin received 2022 NHRI Research Day Best Poster Award.

October 09, 2021
"Shortened leukocyte telomere length in young adults who use methamphetamine" is published in Translational Psychiatry.

May 31, 2021
"Personalization of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder According to the Existing Psychiatric Comorbidity" is published in Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience.

April 15, 2021
"Analysis across Taiwan Biobank, Biobank Japan and UK Biobank identifies hundreds of novel loci for 36 quantitative traits" is in preprint.

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