Christopher Ian Amos
University of New Mexico
Christopher Ian Amos is an American genetic epidemiologist and the director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Baylor College of Medicine, where he is also the associate director for quantitative science at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is known for his research on the genetic basis of certain types of human cancer.
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Christopher Ian Amos is an American genetic epidemiologist and the director of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research at Baylor College of Medicine, where he is also the associate director for quantitative science at the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is known for his research on the genetic basis of certain types of human cancer.
Affiliation
University of New Mexico
Top Publications
- Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci (2017) - 1,606 citations
- Genome-wide association scan of tag SNPs identifies a susceptibility locus for lung cancer at 15q25.1 (2008) - 1,327 citations
- STAT4 and the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (2007) - 1,054 citations
- Association analyses of more than 140,000 men identify 63 new prostate cancer susceptibility loci (2018) - 1,028 citations
- Large-scale association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci and heterogeneity in genetic susceptibility across histological subtypes (2017) - 811 citations
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- Full name
- Christopher Ian Amos
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-8540-7023
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5028989565
Research interests
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Lung Cancer Research Studies, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Smoking Behavior and Cessation, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
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- 1,606OpenAlex citations
- 1,327OpenAlex citations
- STAT4 and the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus ↗2007 · New England Journal of Medicine1,054OpenAlex citations
- 1,028OpenAlex citations
- 811OpenAlex citations
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- STAT4 and the Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus ↗2007 · New England Journal of Medicine
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