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\"Jess
Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Student Jessica McAfee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Students Jessica McAfee (1st author) and Alejandro Gomez in the lab of Hyejung Won published a paper titled “Massively parallel reporter assay investigates shared genetic variants of eight psychiatric disorders<\/span>” in the March 2025 issue of Cell.<\/p>\n

Other co-first authors include Sool Lee (recent UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology graduate) and Jiseok Lee (UNC postdoc).<\/p>\n

Read HERE<\/a>.
\nMassively parallel reporter assay investigates shared genetic variants of eight psychiatric disorders<\/p>\n

Sool Lee\u00a0<\/span>1<\/sup>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Jessica C McAfee\u00a0<\/span>1<\/sup>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Jiseok Lee\u00a0<\/span>1<\/sup>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Alejandro Gomez\u00a0<\/span>1<\/sup>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Austin T Ledford\u00a0<\/span>1<\/sup>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Declan Clarke\u00a0<\/span>2<\/sup>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Hyunggyu Min\u00a0<\/span>3<\/sup>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Mark B Gerstein\u00a0<\/span>2<\/sup>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Alan P Boyle\u00a0<\/span>4<\/sup>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Patrick F Sullivan\u00a0<\/span>5<\/sup>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Adriana S Beltran\u00a0<\/span>6<\/sup>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Hyejung Won\u00a0<\/span>7<\/sup><\/span><\/div>\n

PMID: 39848247 <\/strong>PMCID:\u00a0PMC11890967<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(available on\u00a02026-03-06) <\/span>DOI:\u00a010.1016\/j.cell.2024.12.022<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Alejandro
Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Student Alejandro Gomez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Sool
Dr. Sool Lee, UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jiseok
Jiseok Lee, UNC Post-Doctoral Research Associate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Students Jessica McAfee (1st author) and Alejandro Gomez in the lab of Hyejung Won published a paper titled “Massively parallel reporter assay investigates shared genetic variants of eight psychiatric disorders” in the March 2025 issue of Cell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28418,"featured_media":9687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[81,80],"class_list":["post-11009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-publication","tag-gomez","tag-mcafee","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Jess-McAfee.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Jess-McAfee-202x300.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Jess-McAfee-768x1141.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Jess-McAfee-689x1024.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2024\/04\/Jess-McAfee-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Jess McAfee","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/category\/news\/"},{"name":"Publication","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/category\/publication\/"}],"tag_details":[{"name":"Gomez","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/tag\/gomez\/"},{"name":"McAfee","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/tag\/mcafee\/"}],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11009"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11017,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11009\/revisions\/11017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}