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Steven Jones

ResearcherGeneticsUniversity of British Columbia

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Steven Jones

Researcher

Genetics

Health Sciences

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
5 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 8 research grants (8 CIHR), most recently in 2022.
Supervised 8 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2026.

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Research

Epigenomics Epigenetics Long Read Sequencing Cancer Susceptibility Cascade Genetic Testing Hereditary Cancer Parent-Of-Origin Strand-Seq

Latest papers

Benchmarking of Oxford Nanopore whole genome sequencing for germline variant and CpG methylation detection across Canada's national platform for genome sequencing and analysis.
Frontiers in genetics · 2026
Cross-Platform Methylation-Based Site of Origin Classification for Squamous Cell Carcinomas.
Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc · 2025
Proteomics and personalized PDX models identify treatment for a progressive malignancy within an actionable timeframe.
EMBO molecular medicine · 2025

All 40 publications

Latest funding

Genetic determinants of polymorphic DNA methylation at imprinted regulatory regions in humans
CIHR · 2026 · Supervisor
$27,000
Enhanced Population Cancer Care through Mainstream Genome Sequencing and Parent-of-Origin Detection
CIHR · 2024 · Co-investigator
$2,000,000
Parent-of-Origin-Aware Genomic Analysis in Hereditary Cancer
CIHR · 2022 · Principal investigator
$852,974

All 30 grants and awards

40 publications.

Benchmarking of Oxford Nanopore whole genome sequencing for germline variant and CpG methylation detection across Canada's national platform for genome sequencing and analysis.

Galvez JH, Mastromatteo S, O'Neill K, Eveleigh R, Djambazian H, Thiruvahindrapuram B, Chuah E, Chen SH, Hajianpour A, Wang Z, Paton TA, Desai S, Pullenayegum S, He L, Pandoh P, Zhao Y, Mungall K, Mungall AJ, Wintle RF, Bourque G, Scherer SW, Jones S, Lathrop M, McLaren M, Ragoussis J

Frontiers in genetics2026

DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2026.1863034 PMID: 42644200

Cross-Platform Methylation-Based Site of Origin Classification for Squamous Cell Carcinomas.

Zhang AW, Akbari V, Galbraith A, Kore Z, Li Y, Leung S, Ji JX, Dever K, MacIsaac J, Brewis H, Pan D, Kürten C, Ajisebutu A, Contreras-Sanz A, Moeen A, Zuccato JA, Patil V, Black PC, Lam W, Pleasance E, O'Neill K, Jones S, Marra M, Laskin J, Zadeh G, Mansouri S, Kobor M, Prisman E, McGuire A, Huntsman DG, Yip S, Naso JR

Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.modpat.2025.100878 PMID: 40902853

Proteomics and personalized PDX models identify treatment for a progressive malignancy within an actionable timeframe.

Barnabas GD, Bhat TA, Goebeler V, Leclair P, Azzam N, Melong N, Anderson C, Gom A, An S, Ergin EK, Shen Y, Conrrero A, Mungall AJ, Mungall KL, Maxwell CA, Reid GSD, Hirst M, Jones S, Chan JA, Senger DL, Berman JN, Parker SJ, Bush JW, Strahlendorf C, Deyell RJ, Lim CJ, Lange PF

EMBO molecular medicine2025

DOI: 10.1038/s44321-025-00212-8 PMID: 40204966

"I Just Assumed This Was Already Being Done": Canadian Patient Preferences for Enhanced Data Sharing for Precision Oncology.

Pollard S, Ehman M, Hermansen A, Weymann D, Krebs E, Ho C, Lim HJ, Jones S, Bombard Y, Hanna TP, Hessels C, Longstaff H, Cook-Deegan R, Bubela T, Regier DA

JCO precision oncology2024

DOI: 10.1200/po.24.00184 PMID: 39116357

The genome sequence of the Loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta Linnaeus 1758.

Chang G, Jones S, Leelakumari S, Ashkani J, Culibrk L, O'Neill K, Tse K, Cheng D, Chuah E, McDonald H, Kirk H, Pandoh P, Pari S, Angelini V, Kyle C, Bertorelle G, Zhao Y, Mungall A, Moore R, Vilaça S, Jones S

F1000Research2023Senior author

DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.131283.2 PMID: 37455852

Copy-scAT: Deconvoluting single-cell chromatin accessibility of genetic subclones in cancer.

Nikolic A, Singhal D, Ellestad K, Johnston M, Shen Y, Gillmor A, Morrissy S, Cairncross JG, Jones S, Lupien M, Chan JA, Neri P, Bahlis N, Gallo M

Science advances2021

DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg6045 PMID: 34644115

Contribution of Multiple Inherited Variants to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in a Family with 3 Affected Siblings.

Dhaliwal J, Qiao Y, Calli K, Martell S, Race S, Chijiwa C, Glodjo A, Jones S, Rajcan-Separovic E, Scherer SW, Lewis S

Genes2021

DOI: 10.3390/genes12071053 PMID: 34356069

Tumor microRNA profile and prognostic value for lymph node metastasis in oral squamous cell carcinoma patients.

Liu KYP, Zhu SY, Brooks D, Bowlby R, Durham JS, Ma Y, Moore RA, Mungall AJ, Jones S, Poh CF

Oncotarget2020

DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.27616 PMID: 32577165

Management of PET diagnosed thyroid incidentalomas in British Columbia Canada: Critical importance of the PET report.

Wong J, Liu K, Siu C, Jones S, Sovka M, Wilson D, Wiseman SM

American journal of surgery2017

DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2017.03.015 PMID: 28408111

Molecular etiology of an indolent lymphoproliferative disorder determined by whole-genome sequencing.

Parker JD, Shen Y, Pleasance E, Li Y, Schein JE, Zhao Y, Moore R, Wegrzyn-Woltosz J, Savage KJ, Weng AP, Gascoyne RD, Jones S, Marra M, Laskin J, Karsan A

Cold Spring Harbor molecular case studies2016

DOI: 10.1101/mcs.a000679 PMID: 27148583

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Steven Jones

Research

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Latest funding

Benchmarking of Oxford Nanopore whole genome sequencing for germline variant and CpG methylation detection across Canada's national platform for genome sequencing and analysis.

Cross-Platform Methylation-Based Site of Origin Classification for Squamous Cell Carcinomas.

Proteomics and personalized PDX models identify treatment for a progressive malignancy within an actionable timeframe.

"I Just Assumed This Was Already Being Done": Canadian Patient Preferences for Enhanced Data Sharing for Precision Oncology.

The genome sequence of the Loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta Linnaeus 1758.

Copy-scAT: Deconvoluting single-cell chromatin accessibility of genetic subclones in cancer.

Contribution of Multiple Inherited Variants to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in a Family with 3 Affected Siblings.

Tumor microRNA profile and prognostic value for lymph node metastasis in oral squamous cell carcinoma patients.

Management of PET diagnosed thyroid incidentalomas in British Columbia Canada: Critical importance of the PET report.

Molecular etiology of an indolent lymphoproliferative disorder determined by whole-genome sequencing.

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Samuel Aparicio

Inanc Birol

David Huntsman

Aly Karsan

Peter Watson

Jiarui Ding

Sohrab Shah

Christian Steidl

Connie Eaves

Raymond Ng

Sorana Morrissy

Eitan Prisman

Ali Bashashati

Anna Tinker

Angela Brooks-Wilson

Freda Miller

Marco Gallo

Yvonne Bombard

Michael Kobor

Kasmintan Schrader

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Guillaume Bourque

Stephen Lam

Wan Lam

Peter Leung

Gelareh Zadeh

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