2026 Andrew Chess: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	46	2773	2515	1334	1197	84	14931

Overview

Andrew Chess is affiliated with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with 74 publications contributing to this domain. Within this broader field, their subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Genetics, Cancer Research, Biological Psychiatry, and Physiology.

The topics of their work cover a range of genomic and molecular subjects. Some of the main topics include:

Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Genomics and Rare Diseases
Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Epigenetics and DNA Methylation

Recent scholarly contributions include:

"Large eQTL meta-analysis reveals differing patterns between cerebral cortical and cerebellar brain regions" (2020, Scientific Data)
"The landscape of somatic mutation in cerebral cortex of autistic and neurotypical individuals revealed by ultra-deep whole-genome sequencing" (2021, Nature Neuroscience)
"Single-cell multi-cohort dissection of the schizophrenia transcriptome" (2024, Science)
"Single-cell genomics and regulatory networks for 388 human brains" (2024, Science)
"Sex Differences in the Human Brain Transcriptome of Cases With Schizophrenia" (2021, Biological Psychiatry)

Their frequent co-authors include Schahram Akbarian, Alexej Abyzov, Yanmei Dou, Mette A. Peters, and Chaggai Rosenbluh. The collaboration with these researchers has resulted in numerous joint publications.

Andrew Chess has published frequently in the following venues:

Science
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
UNC Libraries
Nature Neuroscience
Scientific Data

Best Publications

An Architectural role for a nuclear noncoding RNA : NEAT1 RNA is essential for the structure of paraspeckles

Christine Moulton Clemson;John N. Hutchinson;Sergio A. Sara;Alexander W. Ensminger;Alexander W. Ensminger

1524
Citations
Allelic inactivation regulates olfactory receptor gene expression.

Andrew Chess;Itamar Simon;Howard Cedar;Richard Axel;Richard Axel

1325
Citations
Gene expression elucidates functional impact of polygenic risk for schizophrenia

Menachem Fromer;Panos Roussos;Solveig K. Sieberts;Jessica S. Johnson

1216
Citations
A screen for nuclear transcripts identifies two linked noncoding RNAs associated with SC35 splicing domains

John N. Hutchinson;Alexander W. Ensminger;Alexander W. Ensminger;Christine Moulton Clemson;Christopher R. Lynch

1058
Citations
Gene body-specific methylation on the active X chromosome

Asaf Hellman;Andrew Chess

922
Citations
Widespread Monoallelic Expression on Human Autosomes

Alexander Gimelbrant;John N. Hutchinson;Benjamin R. Thompson;Andrew Chess

676
Citations
Identification of candidate Drosophila olfactory receptors from genomic DNA sequence.

Qian Gao;Andrew Chess

628
Citations
The family of genes encoding odorant receptors in the channel catfish

John Ngal;Michael M. Dowling;Linda Buck;Richard Axel

518
Citations
Mice cloned from olfactory sensory neurons

Kevin Eggan;Kristin Baldwin;Michael Tackett;Joseph Osborne;Joseph Osborne

464
Citations
Genome-wide mapping of methylated adenine residues in pathogenic Escherichia coli using single-molecule real-time sequencing

Gang Fang;Diana Munera;Diana Munera;David I Friedman;Anjali Mandlik;Anjali Mandlik

412
Citations
Coding of olfactory information : topography of odorant receptor expression in the catfish olfactory epithelium

John Ngai;Andrew Chess;Michael M. Dowling;Nicholas Necles

374
Citations
Large eQTL meta-analysis reveals differing patterns between cerebral cortical and cerebellar brain regions.

S K Sieberts;T M Perumal;M M Carrasquillo;M Allen

330
Citations
Stochastic yet biased expression of multiple Dscam splice variants by individual cells

Guilherme Neves;Jacob Zucker;Mark Daly;Andrew Chess

309
Citations
Intersection of diverse neuronal genomes and neuropsychiatric disease: The Brain Somatic Mosaicism Network

Michael J. McConnell;John V. Moran;Alexej Abyzov;Schahram Akbarian

285
Citations
Asynchronous replication and allelic exclusion in the immune system.

Raul Mostoslavsky;Nandita Singh;Toyoaki Tenzen;Toyoaki Tenzen;Maya Goldmit

278
Citations
Analysis of Dscam Diversity in Regulating Axon Guidance in Drosophila Mushroom Bodies

Xiao Li Zhan;James C. Clemens;Guilherme Neves;Daisuke Hattori

253
Citations
CommonMind Consortium provides transcriptomic and epigenomic data for Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder.

Gabriel E. Hoffman;Jaroslav Bendl;Georgios Voloudakis;Kelsey S. Montgomery

249
Citations
κ chain monoallelic demethylation and the establishment of allelic exclusion

Raul Mostoslavsky;Nandita Singh;Andrei Kirillov;Roberta Pelanda

245
Citations
Function of rhodopsin in temperature discrimination in Drosophila.

Wei L. Shen;Young Kwon;Abidemi A. Adegbola;Junjie Luo

237
Citations
Mechanisms and consequences of widespread random monoallelic expression

Andrew Chess

194
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Axel Columbia University

Bernie Devlin University of Pittsburgh

Panos Roussos Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Schahram Akbarian Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Joseph D. Buxbaum Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Eli A. Stahl Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Matthew K. Waldor Harvard Medical School

Douglas M. Ruderfer Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Joseph G. Gleeson University of California, San Diego

Howard Cedar Hebrew University of Jerusalem

External Links

Personal website of Andrew Chess

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