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Overview

Kasper D. Hansen is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a total of 153 publications contributing to this area.

Their work spans several subfields, notably:

  • Molecular Biology (107 publications)
  • Genetics (32 publications)
  • Cancer Research (11 publications)
  • Physiology (5 publications)
  • Biophysics (4 publications)

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (46 publications)
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics (36 publications)
  • Gene expression and cancer classification (26 publications)
  • RNA modifications and cancer (24 publications)
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases (18 publications)
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (16 publications)
  • Genetic Syndromes and Imprinting (16 publications)

Recent papers by Kasper D. Hansen demonstrate a focus on genomics, epigenetics, and single-cell analysis methodologies. Selected publications include:

  • "recount3: summaries and queries for large-scale RNA-seq expression and splicing," 2021, Genome biology
  • "Simultaneous profiling of chromatin accessibility and methylation on human cell lines with nanopore sequencing," 2020, Nature Methods
  • "A mammalian methylation array for profiling methylation levels at conserved sequences," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Inverting the model of genomics data sharing with the NHGRI Genomic Data Science Analysis, Visualization, and Informatics Lab-space," 2022, Cell Genomics
  • "Universal prediction of cell-cycle position using transfer learning," 2022, Genome biology

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Hans T. Björnsson
  • Leandros Boukas
  • Stephanie C. Hicks
  • Andrew P. Feinberg
  • Shijie Zheng

Hansen's research has appeared regularly in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 31 publications
  • Genome biology - 5 publications
  • Cancer Research - 3 publications
  • Nature Communications - 2 publications
  • PLoS Genetics - 2 publications

Best Publications

  • The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues

    F Aguet;AN Barbeira;R Bonazzola;A Brown

  • Minfi: A flexible and comprehensive Bioconductor package for the analysis of Infinium DNA Methylation microarrays

    Martin J. Aryee;Andrew E. Jaffe;Hector Corrada-Bravo;Christine Ladd-Acosta

  • Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor

    Wolfgang Huber;Vincent J Carey;Robert Gentleman;Simon Anders

  • Evaluation of statistical methods for normalization and differential expression in mRNA-Seq experiments

    James H. Bullard;Elizabeth A. Purdom;Kasper D. Hansen;Sandrine Dudoit

  • Increased methylation variation in epigenetic domains across cancer types

    Kasper Daniel Hansen;Winston Timp;Winston Timp;Héctor Corrada Bravo;Héctor Corrada Bravo;Sarven Sabunciyan

  • Exploring the phenotypic consequences of tissue specific gene expression variation inferred from GWAS summary statistics.

    Alvaro N. Barbeira;Scott P. Dickinson;Rodrigo Bonazzola;Jiamao Zheng

  • Biases in Illumina transcriptome sequencing caused by random hexamer priming

    Kasper D. Hansen;Steven E. Brenner;Sandrine Dudoit

  • Functional normalization of 450k methylation array data improves replication in large cancer studies

    Jean Philippe Fortin;Aurélie Labbe;Aurélie Labbe;Mathieu Lemire;Brent W. Zanke

  • BSmooth: from whole genome bisulfite sequencing reads to differentially methylated regions

    Kasper D Hansen;Benjamin Langmead;Benjamin Langmead;Rafael A Irizarry;Rafael A Irizarry

  • Preprocessing, normalization and integration of the Illumina HumanMethylationEPIC array with minfi.

    Jean Philippe Fortin;Timothy J. Triche;Kasper D. Hansen

  • Removing technical variability in RNA-seq data using conditional quantile normalization

    Kasper D. Hansen;Rafael A. Irizarry;Zhijin Wu

  • Reproducible RNA-seq analysis using recount2.

    Leonardo Collado-Torres;Abhinav Nellore;Kai Kammers;Kai Kammers;Shannon E Ellis

  • A Quantitative Proteome Map of the Human Body.

    Lihua Jiang;Meng Wang;Shin Lin;Ruiqi Jian

  • Cloud-scale RNA-sequencing differential expression analysis with Myrna

    Ben Langmead;Kasper D Hansen;Jeffrey T Leek

  • Reversible switching between epigenetic states in honeybee behavioral subcastes

    Brian R Herb;Florian Wolschin;Florian Wolschin;Kasper D Hansen;Kasper D Hansen;Martin J Aryee

  • Linear models enable powerful differential activity analysis in massively parallel reporter assays.

    Leslie Myint;Dimitrios G. Avramopoulos;Loyal A. Goff;Kasper D. Hansen

  • Common DNA methylation alterations in multiple brain regions in autism.

    C Ladd-Acosta;K D Hansen;E Briem;M D Fallin

  • Social environment is associated with gene regulatory variation in the rhesus macaque immune system

    Jenny Tung;Luis B. Barreiro;Luis B. Barreiro;Zachary P. Johnson;Kasper D. Hansen

  • Reconstructing A/B compartments as revealed by Hi-C using long-range correlations in epigenetic data

    Jean Philippe Fortin;Kasper D. Hansen

  • Conservation of an RNA Regulatory Map Between Drosophila and Mammals

    Angela N. Brooks;Li Yang;Michael O. Duff;Kasper D. Hansen

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew P. Feinberg
Andrew P. Feinberg Johns Hopkins University
Jeffrey T. Leek
Jeffrey T. Leek Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Rafael A. Irizarry
Rafael A. Irizarry Harvard University
Ben Langmead
Ben Langmead Johns Hopkins University
Loyal A. Goff
Loyal A. Goff Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Andrew E. Jaffe
Andrew E. Jaffe Johns Hopkins University
Vincent J. Carey
Vincent J. Carey Harvard Medical School
Eric R. Gamazon
Eric R. Gamazon Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis
Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis University of Geneva

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