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Johan Thygesen

Lecturer in Health Data Science at University College London (UCL)

My main research interest lies in genetic analysis of complex disorders, with a specific focus on rare variants and in utilising electronic health records, to expand phenotype information. I have worked mainly within the field of mental health and psychiatric disorders, trying to establish causes as well as exploring ways to improve treatment and understand disease trajectories from electronic health records

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The Data Science Behind the Headline: Unpicking the impact of COVID-19 from the UK’s largest datasets

24 August 2022

We speak to Chris Tomlinson and Johan Thygesen about their latest paper, what it’s like to handle data from over 57 million people, and what they think the future of health data research will...

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