Charles Lee (scientist)

Charles Lee
Lee in 2015
Alma materUniversity of Alberta
Websitehttps://charlesleedna.org

Charles Lee is a scientist and academic. He is the Robert Alvine Family Endowed Chair. He is also a professor and clinical cytogeneticist with an active research program focused on the identification and characterization of structural genomic variants using advanced technology platforms. His laboratory was the first to describe genome-wide structural genomic variants (in the form of copy number variants (CNVs)) among humans[1] with the subsequent development of genomic maps[2][3] that are used in the diagnoses of array-based genetic tests.

Education

Lee graduated from the University of Alberta with a BSc in 1990, an MSc in 1993, and a PhD in 1996. He also received a Distinguished Alumni award in 2018.[4]

Awards

References

  1. ^ Iafrate, AJ; Feuk, L; Rivera, MN; et al. (2004). "Detection of large-scale variation in the human genome". Nat. Genet. 36 (9): 949โ€“951. doi:10.1038/ng1416. PMID 15286789.
  2. ^ Redon, R; Ishikawa, S; Fitch, KR; et al. (2006). "Global variation in copy number in the human genome". Nature. 444 (7118): 444โ€“454. Bibcode:2006Natur.444..444R. doi:10.1038/nature05329. PMC 2669898. PMID 17122850.
  3. ^ Conrad, Donald F.; Pinto, Dalila; Redon, Richard; Feuk, Lars; Gokcumen, Omer; Zhang, Yujun; Aerts, Jan; Andrews, T. Daniel; Barnes, Chris; Campbell, Peter; Fitzgerald, Tomas; Hu, Min; Ihm, Chun Hwa; Kristiansson, Kati; MacArthur, Daniel G.; MacDonald, Jeffrey R.; Onyiah, Ifejinelo; Pang, Andy Wing Chun; Robson, Sam; Stirrups, Kathy; Valsesia, Armand; Walter, Klaudia; Wei, John; Tyler-Smith, Chris; Carter, Nigel P.; Lee, Charles; Scherer, Stephen W.; Hurles, Matthew E. (2010). "Common copy number variation in the human genome: mechanism, selection and disease association". Nature. 464 (7289): 704โ€“712. Bibcode:2010Natur.464..704.. doi:10.1038/nature08516. PMC 3330748. PMID 19812545.
  4. ^ "University of Alberta: Distinguished Alumni Award: Charles Lee, '90 BSc(Spec), '93 MSc, '96 PhD, medical geneticist". Archived from the original on 2019-11-27. Retrieved 2019-06-16.