Christopher E. Mason
University of Pittsburgh
Christopher E. Mason is a professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is also one of the founding Directors of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction together with Olivier Elemento. Mason has co-founded four biotechnology startup companies including Onegevity Health, Biotia, BridgeOmics, and Nurture Genomics. He holds four patents related to his research.
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Christopher E. Mason is a professor of Genomics, Physiology, and Biophysics at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is also one of the founding Directors of the WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction together with Olivier Elemento. Mason has co-founded four biotechnology startup companies including Onegevity Health, Biotia, BridgeOmics, and Nurture Genomics. He holds four patents related to his research.
Affiliation
University of Pittsburgh
Top Publications
- Comprehensive Analysis of mRNA Methylation Reveals Enrichment in 3′ UTRs and near Stop Codons (2012) - 4,457 citations
- RNA-seq: An assessment of technical reproducibility and comparison with gene expression arrays (2008) - 2,881 citations
- An integrated map of structural variation in 2,504 human genomes (2015) - 2,712 citations
- methylKit: a comprehensive R package for the analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation profiles (2012) - 2,523 citations
- Single-nucleotide-resolution mapping of m6A and m6Am throughout the transcriptome (2015) - 1,684 citations
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- Full name
- Christopher E. Mason
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-1850-1642
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5085435765
Research interests
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Spaceflight effects on biology, Lymphoma Diagnosis and Treatment, Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research, Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
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- Single-nucleotide-resolution mapping of m6A and m6Am throughout the transcriptome ↗2015 · Nature Methods1,684OpenAlex citations
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- Single-nucleotide-resolution mapping of m6A and m6Am throughout the transcriptome ↗2015 · Nature Methods
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