Loes Research Lab
About Us
We study the genetics of severe mental illness. Specifically, we aim to characterize and predict psychiatric disease trajectories using genetic and high-dimensional phenotypic data resources, such as electronic health records. We have a special focus on studying genetic and environmental risk factors that contribute to the cause and course of illness in admixed Latin American populations, in Colombia, Brazil and the USA. Through Misión Origen, we are creating a biobank for Severe Mental Illness, consisting of 100,000 participants from the Paisa region of Colombia.
We are a research group in the Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences in the Semel Institute of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. We are also affiliated with the Departments of Human Genetics and Computational Medicine and the Bioinformatics, and Biomath PhD programs.
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Ana Maria presents at WCPG in Singapore!
We went to Singapore for the World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics (WCPG) and the Ancestral Population Network (APN) annual meeting.
Preprint: Phenotype harmonization and analysis for The Populations Underrepresented in Mental illness Association Studies (the PUMAS Project)
We have released a preprint detailing our work on harmonizing psychiatric phenotypes for genetic analysis within the PUMAS project.
Congratulations Ana Díaz, new co-chair of the APN phenotype Harmonization Group!
We are proud to announce that Ana Díaz, project director of all UCLA-UdeA projects, has been elected as the new co-chair of the Ancestral Population Network ...
New R01!
New R01 alert! We are thrilled to be part of PsychEMERGE representing UCLA in our joint goal of advancing precision psychiatry!