Charles Lee (scientist)

{{Short description|Korean-Canadian geneticist (born 1969)}}

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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{{cite journal|title=Detection of large-scale variation in the human genome|journal=Nat. Genet.|date=2004|volume=36|pages=949–951|doi=10.1038/ng1416|pmid=15286789|issue=9 | last1 = Iafrate | first1 = AJ | last2 = Feuk | first2 = L | last3 = Rivera | first3 = MN |display-authors=et al|doi-access=free}} with the subsequent development of genomic maps{{cite journal|title=Global variation in copy number in the human genome|journal=Nature|volume=444|date=2006|pages=444–454|bibcode=2006Natur.444..444R|doi=10.1038/nature05329|pmid=17122850|issue=7118|pmc=2669898 | last1 = Redon | first1 = R | last2 = Ishikawa | first2 = S | last3 = Fitch | first3 = KR |display-authors=et al}}{{cite journal|title=Common copy number variation in the human genome: mechanism, selection and disease association|journal=Nature|date=2010|volume=464|issue=7289|pages=704–712|doi=10.1038/nature08516|pmid=19812545|bibcode = 2010Natur.464..704. |pmc=3330748|last1=Conrad|first1=Donald F.|last2=Pinto|first2=Dalila|last3=Redon|first3=Richard|last4=Feuk|first4=Lars|last5=Gokcumen|first5=Omer|last6=Zhang|first6=Yujun|last7=Aerts|first7=Jan|last8=Andrews|first8=T. Daniel|last9=Barnes|first9=Chris|last10=Campbell|first10=Peter|last11=Fitzgerald|first11=Tomas|last12=Hu|first12=Min|last13=Ihm|first13=Chun Hwa|last14=Kristiansson|first14=Kati|last15=MacArthur|first15=Daniel G.|last16=MacDonald|first16=Jeffrey R.|last17=Onyiah|first17=Ifejinelo|last18=Pang|first18=Andy Wing Chun|last19=Robson|first19=Sam|last20=Stirrups|first20=Kathy|last21=Valsesia|first21=Armand|last22=Walter|first22=Klaudia|last23=Wei|first23=John|last24=Tyler-Smith|first24=Chris|last25=Carter|first25=Nigel P.|last26=Lee|first26=Charles|last27=Scherer|first27=Stephen W.|last28=Hurles|first28=Matthew E.}} that are used in the diagnoses of array-based genetic tests.