{"id":234,"date":"2026-04-29T11:58:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/?p=234"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:20:00","slug":"lei-hou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/2026\/04\/29\/lei-hou\/","title":{"rendered":"Lei Hou"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 100%; height: 225px; float: none; margin-left: 0; background-color: #329998; color: #fff; border-left: none; -webkit-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(204,204,204,1); -moz-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(204,204,204,1); box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px 0px rgba(204,204,204,1);\">\n<div style=\"float: left; margin: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/whra\/files\/2026\/04\/lei-hou.jpg\" alt=\"Lei Hou\" width=\"164\" height=\"178\" class=\"alignnone\" \/><\/div>\n<h3 style=\"padding-top: 0.5em; color: #ffffff;\">Assistant Professor<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>Chobanian &#038; Avedisian School of Medicine &#8211; Biomedical Genetics Section\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Research Areas<\/h3>\n<p>Disease genetics and genomics<\/p>\n<h3>Why Women&#8217;s Health?<\/h3>\n<p>Sex difference has a huge impact on the genetic risk of a lot of common diseases, such as Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and Age-related macular degeneration. Research on women&#8217;s health can provide sex-specific insight into disease pathogenesis and empower precision medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor Chobanian &#038; Avedisian School of Medicine &#8211; Biomedical Genetics Section Research Areas Disease genetics and genomics Why Women&#8217;s Health? Sex difference has a huge impact on the genetic risk of a lot of common diseases, such as Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and Age-related macular degeneration. Research on women&#8217;s health can provide sex-specific insight into disease [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/whra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}