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Christopher E. Mason

Christopher E. Mason

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
101
Citations
52246
World Ranking
715
National Ranking
363

Overview

Christopher E. Mason is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their work spans multiple fields primarily within Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, contributing extensively to molecular biology, physiology, infectious diseases, ecology, and genetics research domains.

Their research focuses on a range of topics including:

  • Spaceflight effects on biology
  • SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
  • Genomics and phylogenetic studies
  • Gut microbiota and health
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research
  • Microbial community ecology and physiology
  • Cancer genomics and diagnostics

Christopher E. Mason has been a frequent contributor to several publication venues, with notable numbers of papers in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Microbiology Resource Announcements
  • Nature Biotechnology

Among their recent publications are:

  • A robust benchmark for detection of germline large deletions and insertions (2020, Nature Biotechnology)
  • Transparency and reproducibility in artificial intelligence (2020, Nature)
  • Fundamental Biological Features of Spaceflight: Advancing the Field to Enable Deep-Space Exploration (2020, Cell)
  • Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist (2021, Nature Medicine)
  • The spatial landscape of lung pathology during COVID-19 progression (2021, Nature)

Frequent collaborators in their work include:

  • Cem Meydan
  • Jonathan Foox
  • Afshin Beheshti
  • Daniel Butler
  • Ari Melnick

Christopher E. Mason has also authored books published by The MIT Press, including The Next 500 Years (2021) and The Age of Prediction (2023), which have been cited in academic literature.

Best Publications

  • Comprehensive Analysis of mRNA Methylation Reveals Enrichment in 3′ UTRs and near Stop Codons

    Kate D. Meyer;Yogesh Saletore;Paul Zumbo;Olivier Elemento

  • RNA-seq: An assessment of technical reproducibility and comparison with gene expression arrays

    John C. Marioni;Christopher E. Mason;Shrikant M. Mane;Matthew Stephens

  • An integrated map of structural variation in 2,504 human genomes

    Peter H. Sudmant;Tobias Rausch;Eugene J. Gardner;Robert E. Handsaker;Robert E. Handsaker

  • methylKit: a comprehensive R package for the analysis of genome-wide DNA methylation profiles

    Altuna Akalin;Matthias Kormaksson;Sheng Li;Francine E Garrett-Bakelman

  • Multiple Recurrent De Novo CNVs, Including Duplications of the 7q11.23 Williams Syndrome Region, Are Strongly Associated with Autism

    Stephan J. Sanders;A. Gulhan Ercan-Sencicek;Vanessa Hus;Rui Luo

  • Single-nucleotide-resolution mapping of m6A and m6Am throughout the transcriptome

    Bastian Linder;Anya V Grozhik;Anthony O Olarerin-George;Cem Meydan

  • The NASA Twins Study: A multidimensional analysis of a year-long human spaceflight.

    Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman;Francine E. Garrett-Bakelman;Manjula Darshi;Stefan J. Green;Ruben C. Gur

  • The N 6 -methyladenosine (m 6 A)-forming enzyme METTL3 controls myeloid differentiation of normal hematopoietic and leukemia cells

    Ly P Vu;Brian F Pickering;Yuanming Cheng;Sara Zaccara

  • A comprehensive assessment of RNA-seq accuracy, reproducibility and information content by the Sequencing Quality Control Consortium

    Zhenqiang Su;Paweł P. Łabaj;Sheng Li;Jean Thierry-Mieg

  • Recurrent somatic TET2 mutations in normal elderly individuals with clonal hematopoiesis

    Lambert Busque;Jay P Patel;Maria E Figueroa;Aparna Vasanthakumar

  • Comprehensive evaluation of differential gene expression analysis methods for RNA-seq data

    Franck Rapaport;Raya Khanin;Yupu Liang;Mono Pirun

  • Toward understanding and exploiting tumor heterogeneity

    Ash A Alizadeh;Victoria Aranda;Alberto Bardelli;Cedric Blanpain

  • Extensive sequencing of seven human genomes to characterize benchmark reference materials

    Justin M. Zook;David Catoe;Jennifer McDaniel;Lindsay Vang

  • Functional and Evolutionary Insights into Human Brain Development through Global Transcriptome Analysis

    Matthew B. Johnson;Yuka Imamura Kawasawa;Christopher E. Mason;Željka Krsnik

  • Assembly and diploid architecture of an individual human genome via single-molecule technologies

    Matthew Pendleton;Robert Sebra;Andy Wing Chun Pang;Ajay Ummat

  • N6-Methyladenosine in Flaviviridae Viral RNA Genomes Regulates Infection.

    Nandan S. Gokhale;Alexa B.R. McIntyre;Michael J. McFadden;Allison E. Roder

  • The birth of the Epitranscriptome: deciphering the function of RNA modifications

    Yogesh Saletore;Kate Meyer;Jonas Korlach;Igor D Vilfan

  • Dynamics of the human and viral m 6 A RNA methylomes during HIV-1 infection of T cells

    Gianluigi Lichinchi;Gianluigi Lichinchi;Shang Gao;Yogesh Saletore;Gwendolyn Michelle Gonzalez

  • Detecting and correcting systematic variation in large-scale RNA sequencing data

    Sheng Li;Paweł P Łabaj;Paul Zumbo;Peter Sykacek

  • Accurate detection of m6A RNA modifications in native RNA sequences

    Huanle Liu;Oguzhan Begik;Oguzhan Begik;Morghan C. Lucas;Jose Miguel Ramirez

Frequent Co-Authors

Ari Melnick
Ari Melnick Cornell University
Ross L. Levine
Ross L. Levine Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Kasthuri Venkateswaran
Kasthuri Venkateswaran Jet Propulsion Lab
Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy Vanderbilt University
Olivier Elemento
Olivier Elemento Cornell University
Leming Shi
Leming Shi Fudan University
Selina Chen-Kiang
Selina Chen-Kiang Cornell University
Martin Carroll
Martin Carroll University of Pennsylvania
Nicholas D. Socci
Nicholas D. Socci Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Stephen P. Jackson
Stephen P. Jackson University of Cambridge

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