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Benjamin P. Berman is affiliated with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research primarily focuses on molecular biology, cancer research, immunology, surgery, and pathology and forensic medicine.

The scientist's main topics of study encompass epigenetics and DNA methylation, cancer genomics and diagnostics, RNA modifications and cancer, cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, cancer-related gene regulation, neutrophil, myeloperoxidase and oxidative mechanisms, as well as genomics and chromatin dynamics.

Benjamin P. Berman has coauthored multiple papers with frequent collaborators including Christopher C. Benz, Efrat Katsman, Tiago C. Silva, Peter J. Bailey, and Kenneth Aldape.

Their work has been published across several high-profile venues, with repeated appearances in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • Genome biology
  • UNC Libraries

Recent significant publications include:

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes, 2020, Nature
  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of mitochondrial genomes in human cancers, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Divergent mutational processes distinguish hypoxic and normoxic tumours, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Identification of a CpG Island Methylator Phenotype that Defines a Distinct Subgroup of Glioma, 2020, UNC Libraries
  • Detecting cell-of-origin and cancer-specific methylation features of cell-free DNA from Nanopore sequencing, 2022, Genome biology

Best Publications

  • Comprehensive molecular portraits of human breast tumours

    Daniel C. Koboldt;Robert S. Fulton;Michael D. McLellan;Heather Schmidt

  • The cancer genome atlas pan-cancer analysis project

    John N Weinstein;John N Weinstein;Eric A. Collisson;Gordon B Mills;Kenna R Mills Shaw;Kenna R Mills Shaw

  • The genome sequence of Drosophila melanogaster

    M. D. Adams;S. E. Celniker;R. A. Holt;C. A. Evans

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of human colon and rectal cancer

    Donna M. Muzny;Matthew N. Bainbridge;Kyle Chang;Huyen H. Dinh

  • Integrated genomic analyses of ovarian carcinoma

    D. Bell;A. Berchuck;M. Birrer;J. Chien

  • Comprehensivemolecular characterization of clear cell renal cell carcinoma

    Chad J. Creighton;Margaret Morgan;Preethi H. Gunaratne;Preethi H. Gunaratne;David A. Wheeler

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

    Peter J. Campbell;Gad Getz;Jan O. Korbel;Joshua M. Stuart

  • Identification of a CpG island methylator phenotype that defines a distinct subgroup of glioma.

    Houtan Noushmehr;Daniel J. Weisenberger;Kristin Diefes;Heidi S. Phillips

  • The chromatin accessibility landscape of primary human cancers

    M. Ryan Corces;Jeffrey M. Granja;Shadi Shams;Bryan H. Louie

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

    Yilong Li;Nicola D Roberts;Jeremiah A Wala;Jeremiah A Wala;Ofer Shapira;Ofer Shapira

  • Exploiting transcription factor binding site clustering to identify cis-regulatory modules involved in pattern formation in the Drosophila genome

    Benjamin P. Berman;Yutaka Nibu;Barret D. Pfeiffer;Pavel Tomancak

  • Regions of focal DNA hypermethylation and long-range hypomethylation in colorectal cancer coincide with nuclear lamina–associated domains

    Benjamin P Berman;Daniel J Weisenberger;Joseph F Aman;Toshinori Hinoue

  • Global analysis of patterns of gene expression during Drosophila embryogenesis.

    Pavel Tomancak;Pavel Tomancak;Pavel Tomancak;Benjamin P Berman;Benjamin P Berman;Amy Beaton;Amy Beaton;Richard Weiszmann

  • Annotation of the Drosophila melanogaster euchromatic genome: a systematic review.

    Sima Misra;Madeline A Crosby;Christopher J Mungall;Beverley B Matthews

  • Genome-wide mapping of nucleosome positioning and DNA methylation within individual DNA molecules

    Theresa K. Kelly;Yaping Liu;Fides D. Lay;Gangning Liang

  • The PsychENCODE project

    Schahram Akbarian;Chunyu Liu;James A Knowles;Flora M Vaccarino

  • Granulocyte-Monocyte Progenitors and Monocyte-Dendritic Cell Progenitors Independently Produce Functionally Distinct Monocytes

    Alberto Yáñez;Simon Coetzee;Andre Olsson;David Muench

  • Scientific workflow applications on Amazon EC2

    Gideon Juve;Ewa Deelman;Karan Vahi;Gaurang Mehta

  • The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project

    Kyle Chang;Chad J Creighton;Caleb Davis;Lawrence Donehower

  • Integrated genomic analyses of ovarian carcinoma

    D. Bell;A. Berchuck;M. Birrer;J. Chien

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter W. Laird
Peter W. Laird Van Andel Institute
Houtan Noushmehr
Houtan Noushmehr Henry Ford Health System
Gad Getz
Gad Getz Broad Institute
Daniel J. Weisenberger
Daniel J. Weisenberger University of Southern California
Hui Shen
Hui Shen Van Andel Institute
Rameen Beroukhim
Rameen Beroukhim Harvard University
Matthew Meyerson
Matthew Meyerson Harvard University
Katherine A. Hoadley
Katherine A. Hoadley University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Christina Yau
Christina Yau University of California, San Francisco
Gerald M. Rubin
Gerald M. Rubin Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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