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Specialty:: Pathology
Department Affiliation:: Pathology
State License:: TRL00005764
Languages:: Korean
Phone:: 310-825-9111
Health Plans:: Accepted Plans

About Me

Hane Lee, PhD is a Clinical Professor¹ in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. As part of the UCLA Clinical Genomics Center², Dr. Lee specializes in molecular genetics and genomics and performs analysis and interpretation for Clinical Exome Sequencing test. Dr. Lee completed her undergraduate study at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and came to UCLA to earn PhD in Human Genetics. Dr. Lee joined the Pathology department in 2011.
Dr. Lee holds a joint appointment in the Department of Human Genetics. As part of the Undiagnosed Diseases Network³ and California Center for Rare Diseases⁴, Dr. Lee performs analysis and interpretation of whole genome sequencing and transcriptome sequencing for rare diseases.

Links

¹http://pathology.ucla.edu/hane-lee
²http://pathology.ucla.edu/genomics
³medschool.ucla.edu/human-genetics/undiagnosed-diseases-network
⁴rarediseases.ucla.edu
uclahealth.org/pathology
medschool.ucla.edu/human-genetics

Degree: UCLA Human Genetics, PhD, 2007

Publications

Lee H, Huang AY, Wang LK, Yoon AJ, Renteria G, Eskin A, Signer RH, Dorrani N, Nieves-Rodriguez S, Wan J, Douine ED, Woods JD, Dell'Angelica EC, Fogel BL, Martin MG, Butte MJ, Parker NH, Wang RT, Shieh PB, Wong DA, Gallant N, Singh KE, Tavyev Asher YJ, Sinsheimer JS, Krakow D, Loo SK, Allard P, Papp JC; Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Palmer CGS, Martinez-Agosto JA, Nelson SF. Diagnostic utility of transcriptome sequencing for rare Mendelian diseases. Genet Med. 2020;22(3):490-499. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31607746/
Lee H, Deignan JL, Dorrani N, Strom SP, Kantarci S, Quintero-Rivera F, Das K, Toy T, Harry B, Yourshaw M, Fox M, Fogel BL, Martinez-Agosto JA, Wong DA, Chang VY, Shieh PB, Palmer CG, Dipple KM, Grody WW, Vilain E, Nelson SF. Clinical Exome Sequencing for Genetic Identification of Rare Mendelian Disorders. JAMA. 2014 Oct 18. doi: 10.1001/jama.2014.14604. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25326637/
Lee H and Nelson SF, Rethinking clinical practice: clinical implementation of exome sequencing. Personalized Medicine, 2012. 9(8): p. 785-787. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29776228/
Lee H, Graham JM, Jr., Rimoin DL, Lachman RS, Krejci P, Tompson SW, Nelson SF, Krakow D, and Cohn DH, Exome sequencing identifies PDE4D mutations in acrodysostosis. Am J Hum Genet, 2012. 90(4): p. 746-51. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22464252/

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