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Overview

Ross C. Hardison is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research is situated primarily in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine. The main subfields they have contributed to are Molecular Biology, Genetics, Hematology, Physiology, and Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health.

The scientist's work spans several major topics including:

  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • RNA Research and Splicing
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology

Key recent publications illustrate the focus and scope of their research contributions. Among them are:

  • Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution, 2021, Kent Academic Repository (University of Kent)
  • Subtype-specific 3D genome alteration in acute myeloid leukaemia, 2022, Nature
  • The changing mouse embryo transcriptome at whole tissue and single-cell resolution, 2020, Nature
  • A map of cis-regulatory elements and 3D genome structures in zebrafish, 2020, Nature
  • Clinically relevant updates of the HbVar database of human hemoglobin variants and thalassemia mutations, 2020, Nucleic Acids Research

The scientist frequently publishes in several academic venues. The most productive among these are:

  • Blood
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Genetics
  • Molecular Cell
  • Nature

Collaborative work is demonstrated through numerous frequent coauthors, with whom they have published repeatedly. These include:

  • Cheryl A. Keller
  • Belinda Giardine
  • Gerd A. Blobel
  • Osheiza Abdulmalik
  • Junwei Shi

Best Publications

  • Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome.

    Robert H. Waterston;Kerstin Lindblad-Toh;Ewan Birney;Jane Rogers

  • Identification and analysis of functional elements in 1% of the human genome by the ENCODE pilot project

    Ewan Birney;John A. Stamatoyannopoulos;Anindya Dutta;Roderic Guigó

  • Human–Mouse Alignments with BLASTZ

    Scott Schwartz;W. James Kent;Arian Smit;Zheng Zhang

  • The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia of DNA elements) Project

    E. A. Feingold;P. J. Good;M. S. Guyer;S. Kamholz

  • An integrated encyclopedia of DNA elements in the human genome

    Ian Dunham;Anshul Kundaje;Shelley F. Aldred;Patrick J. Collins

  • Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution

    Ladeana W. Hillier;Webb Miller;Ewan Birney;Wesley Warren

  • Genome sequence of the Brown Norway rat yields insights into mammalian evolution

    Richard A. Gibbs;George M. Weinstock;Michael L. Metzker;Donna M. Muzny

  • Expanded encyclopaedias of DNA elements in the human and mouse genomes

    Jill E. Moore;Michael J. Purcaro;Henry E. Pratt;Charles B. Epstein

  • Galaxy: A platform for interactive large-scale genome analysis

    Belinda Giardine;Cathy Riemer;Ross C. Hardison;Richard Burhans

  • A comparative encyclopedia of DNA elements in the mouse genome

    Feng Yue;Feng Yue;Yong Cheng;Alessandra Breschi;Jeff Vierstra

  • The isolation of structural genes from libraries of eucaryotic DNA

    Tom Maniatis;Ross C. Hardison;Elizabeth Lacy;Joyce Lauer

  • A User's Guide to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE)

    Richard M. Myers;John Stamatoyannopoulos;Michael Snyder;Ian Dunham

  • Evolutionary and biomedical insights from the rhesus macaque genome

    Richard A. Gibbs;Jeffrey Rogers

  • PipMaker—A Web Server for Aligning Two Genomic DNA Sequences

    Scott Schwartz;Zheng Zhang;Kelly A. Frazer;Arian Smit

  • Topologically associating domains are stable units of replication-timing regulation

    Benjamin D. Pope;Tyrone Ryba;Vishnu Dileep;Feng Yue

  • Defining functional DNA elements in the human genome

    Manolis Kellis;Barbara Wold;Michael P. Snyder;Bradley E. Bernstein

  • Integrative annotation of chromatin elements from ENCODE data

    Michael M. Hoffman;Jason Ernst;Jason Ernst;Jason Ernst;Steven P. Wilder;Anshul Kundaje;Anshul Kundaje

  • Genome analysis of the platypus reveals unique signatures of evolution

    Wesley C. Warren;La Deana W. Hillier;Jennifer A. Marshall Graves;Ewan Birney

  • Conserved noncoding sequences are reliable guides to regulatory elements.

    Ross C. Hardison

  • Tumour invasion and metastasis initiated by microRNA-10b in breast cancer (Nature (2007) 449, (682-688))

    Li Ma;Julie Teruya-Feldstein;Robert A. Weinberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Webb Miller
Webb Miller Pennsylvania State University
Gerd A. Blobel
Gerd A. Blobel Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Mitchell J. Weiss
Mitchell J. Weiss St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
David M. Bodine
David M. Bodine National Institutes of Health
David Haussler
David Haussler University of California, Santa Cruz
John A. Stamatoyannopoulos
John A. Stamatoyannopoulos University of Washington
Roderic Guigó
Roderic Guigó Pompeu Fabra University
Ewan Birney
Ewan Birney European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Michael Snyder
Michael Snyder Stanford University

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