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Sam Behjati is affiliated with the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the United Kingdom and contributes extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine. Their research output spans several specialized areas, including molecular biology, cancer research, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, immunology, and oncology.

The scientist's work frequently addresses topics such as cancer genomics and diagnostics, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, renal and related cancers, renal cell carcinoma treatment, acute myeloid leukemia research, neuroblastoma research and treatments, and epigenetics and DNA methylation.

Behjati has published papers in numerous prominent scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes, 2020, Nature
  • SoupX removes ambient RNA contamination from droplet-based single-cell RNA sequencing data, 2020, GigaScience
  • A cell atlas of human thymic development defines T cell repertoire formation, 2020, Science
  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of mitochondrial genomes in human cancers, 2020, Nature Genetics
  • Developmental cell programs are co-opted in inflammatory skin disease, 2021, Science

Frequent coauthors in Behjati's collaborative work include Matthew D. Young, Tim Coorens, Muzlifah Haniffa, Sarah A. Teichmann, and Laura Jardine.

The scientist's research has been published across various venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Cancer Research
  • Nature
  • Nature Genetics

Best Publications

  • Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer

    Ludmil B. Alexandrov;Serena Nik-Zainal;Serena Nik-Zainal;David C. Wedge;Samuel A. J. R. Aparicio

  • Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes

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

  • SoupX removes ambient RNA contamination from droplet-based single-cell RNA sequencing data

    Matthew D Young;Sam Behjati;Sam Behjati;Sam Behjati

  • Patterns of somatic structural variation in human cancer genomes

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

  • Tumor Exome Analysis Reveals Neoantigen-Specific T-Cell Reactivity in an Ipilimumab-Responsive Melanoma

    Nienke van Rooij;Marit M. van Buuren;Daisy Philips;Arno Velds

  • A cell atlas of human thymic development defines T cell repertoire formation.

    Jong-Eun Park;Rachel A. Botting;Cecilia Domínguez Conde;Dorin-Mirel Popescu

  • Distinct H3F3A and H3F3B driver mutations define chondroblastoma and giant cell tumor of bone.

    Sam Behjati;Sam Behjati;Patrick S Tarpey;Nadège Presneau;Susanne Scheipl;Susanne Scheipl

  • Prediction of acute myeloid leukaemia risk in healthy individuals

    Sagi Abelson;Grace Collord;Grace Collord;Stanley W.K. Ng;Omer Weissbrod

  • High-throughput epitope discovery reveals frequent recognition of neo-antigens by CD4 + T cells in human melanoma

    Carsten Linnemann;Marit M van Buuren;Laura Bies;Els M E Verdegaal

  • What is next generation sequencing

    Sam Behjati;Patrick S Tarpey

  • Single-cell transcriptomes from human kidneys reveal the cellular identity of renal tumors

    Matthew D. Young;Thomas J. Mitchell;Thomas J. Mitchell;Thomas J. Mitchell;Felipe A. Vieira Braga;Maxine G. B. Tran

  • Decoding human fetal liver haematopoiesis

    Dorin-Mirel Popescu;Rachel A. Botting;Emily Stephenson;Kile Green

  • Intra-tumour diversification in colorectal cancer at the single-cell level

    Sophie F. Roerink;Nobuo Sasaki;Nobuo Sasaki;Henry Lee-Six;Matthew D. Young

  • Extensive transduction of nonrepetitive DNA mediated by L1 retrotransposition in cancer genomes

    Jose M. C. Tubio;Yilong Li;Young Seok Ju;Inigo Martincorena

  • Origins and functional consequences of somatic mitochondrial DNA mutations in human cancer

    Y S Ju;L B Alexandrov;M Gerstung;I Martincorena

  • Use of CRISPR-modified human stem cell organoids to study the origin of mutational signatures in cancer.

    Jarno Drost;Ruben van Boxtel;Francis Blokzijl;Tomohiro Mizutani

  • Combined hereditary and somatic mutations of replication error repair genes result in rapid onset of ultra-hypermutated cancers.

    Adam Shlien;Brittany B Campbell;Richard de Borja;Ludmil B Alexandrov

  • Genome sequencing of normal cells reveals developmental lineages and mutational processes

    Sam Behjati;Sam Behjati;Meritxell Huch;Meritxell Huch;Ruben van Boxtel;Wouter Karthaus

  • Critical evaluation of KCNJ3 gene product detection in human breast cancer: mRNA in situ hybridisation is superior to immunohistochemistry.

    Sarah Kammerer;Stephan Wenzel Jahn;Elke Winter;Sylvia Eidenhammer

  • High-throughput epitope discovery reveals frequent recognition of neo-antigens by CD4(+) T cells in human melanoma (vol 21, pg 81, 2015)

    Carsten Linnemann;Marit M. van Buuren;Laura Bies;Els M. E. Verdegaal

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Campbell
Peter J. Campbell Wellcome Sanger Institute
Adrienne M. Flanagan
Adrienne M. Flanagan University College London
Muzlifah Haniffa
Muzlifah Haniffa Newcastle University
Michael R. Stratton
Michael R. Stratton Wellcome Sanger Institute
Sarah A. Teichmann
Sarah A. Teichmann University of Cambridge
Patrick S. Tarpey
Patrick S. Tarpey Wellcome Sanger Institute
Neil J. Sebire
Neil J. Sebire Great Ormond Street Hospital
Ultan McDermott
Ultan McDermott AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)
Peter Van Loo
Peter Van Loo The Francis Crick Institute
Serena Nik-Zainal
Serena Nik-Zainal University of Cambridge

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