Andrew Chess

13.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
51 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Andrew Chess is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Sensory Systems and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Chess has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Sensory Systems and 18 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Andrew Chess's work include Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (19 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (18 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (16 papers). Andrew Chess is often cited by papers focused on Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (19 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (18 papers) and Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (16 papers). Andrew Chess collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Germany. Andrew Chess's co-authors include John N. Hutchinson, Alexander W. Ensminger, Asaf Hellman, Qian Gao, Jeanne B. Lawrence, Christine Clemson, Richard Axel, Howard Cedar, Itamar Simon and Alexander A. Gimelbrant and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Chess

51 papers receiving 7.2k citations

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

An Architectural Role for a Nuclear Noncoding RNA: NEAT1 RNA Is Essential for the Structure of Paraspeckles

2009 1.1k citations Christine Clemson, John N. Hutchinson et al. Molecular Cell profile →
Allelic inactivation regulates olfactory receptor gene expression

1994 855 citations Andrew Chess, Richard Axel et al. profile →
A screen for nuclear transcripts identifies two linked noncoding RNAs associated with SC35 splicing domains

2007 792 citations John N. Hutchinson, Alexander W. Ensminger et al. profile →
Gene Body-Specific Methylation on the Active X Chromosome

2007 528 citations Asaf Hellman, Andrew Chess Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew Chess United States	31	4.5k	2.0k	1.6k	1.6k	1.3k	51	7.3k
Janet M. Young United States	35	3.0k 0.7×	1.0k 0.5×	373 0.2×	2.3k 1.4×	1.0k 0.8×	81	6.1k
Stavros Lomvardas United States	36	3.9k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	476 0.3×	851 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	53	6.2k
Gilad Barnea United States	25	2.3k 0.5×	1.8k 0.9×	193 0.1×	498 0.3×	1.1k 0.8×	33	4.4k
Iván Rodríguez Switzerland	39	3.1k 0.7×	2.9k 1.5×	236 0.1×	605 0.4×	2.8k 2.2×	68	7.5k
Misao Suzuki Japan	41	2.8k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	443 0.3×	672 0.4×	979 0.8×	91	6.4k
Mattias Alenius Sweden	15	1.1k 0.2×	1.2k 0.6×	518 0.3×	618 0.4×	449 0.3×	22	2.4k
Stefano Gustincich Italy	44	4.9k 1.1×	1.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	564 0.3×	296 0.2×	132	6.9k
C. Geoffrey Woods United Kingdom	48	6.8k 1.5×	1.6k 0.8×	537 0.3×	3.4k 2.1×	507 0.4×	97	11.0k
Yoshitaka Oka Japan	54	3.9k 0.9×	1.5k 0.8×	250 0.2×	1.6k 1.0×	900 0.7×	341	9.8k
Terry Magnuson United States	70	12.5k 2.8×	1.8k 0.9×	1.7k 1.0×	4.2k 2.6×	244 0.2×	198	18.0k

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Breen, Michael S., Amanda Dobbyn, Qin Li, et al.. (2019). Global landscape and genetic regulation of RNA editing in cortical samples from individuals with schizophrenia. Nature Neuroscience. 22(9). 1402–1412. 65 indexed citations

Gulyás-Kovács, Attila, Ifat Keydar, Eva Xia, et al.. (2018). Unperturbed expression bias of imprinted genes in schizophrenia. Nature Communications. 9(1). 2914–2914. 7 indexed citations

Chess, Andrew. (2016). Monoallelic Gene Expression in Mammals. Annual Review of Genetics. 50(1). 317–327. 53 indexed citations

Beaulaurier, John, Xue‐Song Zhang, Shijia Zhu, et al.. (2015). Single molecule-level detection and long read-based phasing of epigenetic variations in bacterial methylomes. Nature Communications. 6(1). 74 indexed citations

Adegbola, Abidemi, Gerald F. Cox, Elizabeth M. Bradshaw, et al.. (2014). Monoallelic expression of the human FOXP2 speech gene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(22). 6848–6854. 30 indexed citations

Hutchinson, John N., Jes Fagerness, Andrew Kirby, et al.. (2014). (Epi)Genetic Analyses of Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Case-Control and Discordant Twin Studies. Human Heredity. 78(2). 59–72. 11 indexed citations

Hutchinson, John N., Towfique Raj, Jes Fagerness, et al.. (2014). Allele-Specific Methylation Occurs at Genetic Variants Associated with Complex Disease. PLoS ONE. 9(6). e98464–e98464. 27 indexed citations

Thompson, Benjamin R., et al.. (2012). Autosomal monoallelic expression in the mouse. Genome biology. 13(2). 85 indexed citations

Chess, Andrew. (2012). Mechanisms and consequences of widespread random monoallelic expression. Nature Reviews Genetics. 13(6). 421–428. 126 indexed citations

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Shen, Wei L., Young V. Kwon, Abidemi Adegbola, et al.. (2011). Function of Rhodopsin in Temperature Discrimination in Drosophila. Science. 331(6022). 1333–1336. 184 indexed citations

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Hellman, Asaf & Andrew Chess. (2010). Extensive sequence-influenced DNA methylation polymorphism in the human genome. Epigenetics & Chromatin. 3(1). 11–11. 78 indexed citations

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Clemson, Christine, John N. Hutchinson, Alexander W. Ensminger, et al.. (2009). An Architectural Role for a Nuclear Noncoding RNA: NEAT1 RNA Is Essential for the Structure of Paraspeckles. Molecular Cell. 33(6). 717–726. 1125 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gimelbrant, Alexander A., John N. Hutchinson, Benjamin R. Thompson, & Andrew Chess. (2007). Widespread Monoallelic Expression on Human Autosomes. Science. 318(5853). 1136–1140. 451 indexed citations

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Gimelbrant, Alexander A. & Andrew Chess. (2006). An epigenetic state associated with areas of gene duplication. Genome Research. 16(6). 723–729. 23 indexed citations

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Hellman, Asaf & Andrew Chess. (2002). Olfactory Axons: A Remarkable Convergence. Current Biology. 12(24). R849–R851. 6 indexed citations

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Rothstein, Rodney, et al.. (2000). YAC transgene-mediated olfactory receptor gene choice. Developmental Dynamics. 217(2). 225–231. 19 indexed citations

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Gao, Qian, Bingbing Yuan, & Andrew Chess. (2000). Convergent projections of Drosophila olfactory neurons to specific glomeruli in the antennal lobe. Nature Neuroscience. 3(8). 780–785. 340 indexed citations

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Chess, Andrew, et al.. (2000). Olfactory neurons are interdependent in maintaining axonal projections. Current Biology. 10(4). 219–222. 48 indexed citations

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Chess, Andrew, et al.. (1998). The specification of olfactory neurons. Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 8(4). 453–457. 10 indexed citations

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Chess, Andrew, et al.. (1992). Molecular Biology of Smell: Expression of the Multigene Family Encoding Putative Odorant Receptors. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 57(0). 505–516. 27 indexed citations

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