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Genetics

D-Index
161
Citations
231675
World Ranking
93
National Ranking
4

Medicine

D-Index
161
Citations
232093
World Ranking
725
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Genetics in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Genetics in Canada Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in Canada Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in Canada Leader Award
  • 2011 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Steven J.M. Jones is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans across multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine, with a notable focus on molecular biology, cancer research, genetics, oncology, as well as pulmonary and respiratory medicine.

Their main topics of work include:

  • Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
  • Genomics and Rare Diseases
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers

Steven J.M. Jones has contributed to a significant number of publications, particularly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, Cancer Research, UNC Libraries, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Marco A. Marra
  • Andrew J. Mungall
  • Janessa Laskin
  • Richard A. Moore
  • Erin Pleasance

Among the recent papers associated with this researcher are:

  • "Transcription phenotypes of pancreatic cancer are driven by genomic events during tumor evolution," 2020, Nature Genetics
  • "The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock," 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "GA4GH: International policies and standards for data sharing across genomic research and healthcare," 2021, Cell Genomics
  • "Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science," 2021, Nature
  • "Glioma-derived IL-33 orchestrates an inflammatory brain tumor microenvironment that accelerates glioma progression," 2020, Nature Communications

Steven J.M. Jones has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2011 within the Academy of Science.

Best Publications

  • Comprehensive molecular portraits of human breast tumours

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

  • Circos: An information aesthetic for comparative genomics

    Martin I Krzywinski;Jacqueline E Schein;Inanc Birol;Joseph Connors

  • 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

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of human colon and rectal cancer

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

  • Integrative analysis of 111 reference human epigenomes

    Anshul Kundaje;Wouter Meuleman;Wouter Meuleman;Jason Ernst

  • Genomic and epigenomic landscapes of adult de novo acute myeloid leukemia

    Timothy J. Ley;Christopher Miller;Li Ding;Benjamin J. Raphael

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of gastric adenocarcinoma

    Adam J. Bass;Vesteinn Thorsson;Ilya Shmulevich;Sheila M. Reynolds

  • Integrated genomic characterization of endometrial carcinoma

    Gad Getz;Stacey B. Gabriel;Kristian Cibulskis;Eric Lander

  • Comprehensive molecular profiling of lung adenocarcinoma: The cancer genome atlas research network

    Eric A. Collisson;Joshua D. Campbell;Angela N. Brooks;Angela N. Brooks;Alice H. Berger

  • The genome of black cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray)

    G. A. Tuskan;G. A. Tuskan;S. DiFazio;S. DiFazio;S. Jansson;J. Bohlmann

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas

    Michael S. Lawrence;Carrie Sougnez;Lee Lichtenstein;Kristian Cibulskis

  • Comprehensivemolecular characterization of clear cell renal cell carcinoma

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

  • ABySS: A parallel assembler for short read sequence data

    Jared T. Simpson;Kim Wong;Shaun D. Jackman;Jacqueline E. Schein

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization of squamous cell lung cancers

    Peter S. Hammerman;Doug Voet;Michael S. Lawrence;Douglas Voet

  • Comprehensive molecular characterization of urothelial bladder carcinoma

    John N Weinstein;Rehan Akbani;Bradley McIntosh Broom;Wenyi Wang

  • The ENCODE (ENCyclopedia of DNA elements) Project

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

  • Generation and initial analysis of more than 15,000 full-length human and mouse cDNA sequences.

    Robert L Strausberg;Elise A Feingold;Lynette H Grouse;Jeffery G Derge

  • The Genome Sequence of the SARS-associated Coronavirus

    Marco A. Marra;Steven J. M. Jones;Caroline R. Astell;Robert A. Holt

  • The Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer analysis project

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

  • The genome of black cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray) - eScholarship

    G.A. Tuskan;S. DiFazio;S. Jansson;J. Bohlmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Marco A. Marra
Marco A. Marra University of British Columbia
Andrew J. Mungall
Andrew J. Mungall BC Cancer Agency
Richard A. Moore
Richard A. Moore BC Cancer Agency
Robert A. Holt
Robert A. Holt BC Cancer Research Institute
Inanc Birol
Inanc Birol University of British Columbia
Martin Hirst
Martin Hirst University of British Columbia
Karen Mungall
Karen Mungall BC Cancer Agency
Jacqueline E. Schein
Jacqueline E. Schein BC Cancer Agency
Rameen Beroukhim
Rameen Beroukhim Harvard University
Matthew Meyerson
Matthew Meyerson Harvard University

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