Large-Scale Lupus GWAS published in ARD
A large-scale genome-wide association meta-analysis study, initiated in 2017 and conducted by 102 contributors, made a wonderful story in the lupus genetics field, identifying 46 novel loci in the human…
Sehwan’s paper published in A&R
Sehwan CHUN (MSc 2019) developed an allele-specific quantification method for HLA-DRB1 using both total RNA-seq and HLA-DRB1 sequencing data. He found highly allele-specific expression of HLA-DRB1 that leads to the…
Junho, a new graduate student
Welcome, Junho LEE, to join our team officially, as a new graduate student in the MSc-PhD program in Kyung Hee University, pursuing his PhD degree. Junho received his bachelor's degree…
A preprint of SLE GWAS by Kwangwoo and Eunji
A collaborative East Asian lupus genetics network among Korea, China and Japan with the US made a tremendous effort on a genome-wide association study in 208,370 East Asian individuals to…
Rheumatoid arthritis genetics paper accepted by ARD on June 30
A collaborative work among 10 different institutions (including KimLab, Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases (HUHRD), Center for Genome Science of the Korean National Institute of Health, and other university…
Ki-Nam (MSc 2020) now a researcher in LG H&H
Congratulations to Ki-Nam, who earned her master's degree in computational genomics last February and accepted a new position as bioinformatician in LG Household & Health Care (LG H&H). She joined…
Eunji’s paper accepted for CTG on June 18
Eunji, Ki-Nam, and other colleagues identified host genetic and gut microbial signatures in familial inflammatory bowel disease using multi-dimensional omics data from whole exome sequencing, genome-wide SNP genotyping, and 16s…
Three co-authored papers
Two recent papers co-authored by Kwangwoo and Eunji were published in Int J Rheum Dis (2020 Jan) and Signal Transduct Target Ther (2019 Oct): Identifying damage clusters in patients with…
Graduation day
As the risk of COVID-19 increased in Korea, Kyung Hee University had to cancel the graduation ceremony. However, there was an opportunity for people who had memories about Ki-Nam in…
Chae Yeon, a new graduate student
The lab welcomes Chae Yeon YU, who has joined the KimLab for her PhD in an MS/PhD-integrated program since September 2019 and has been doing two exciting projects: a large-scale…