Bhawana Bissa

Dr. Bhawana Bissa


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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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3 April 2025 in Molecular Biology Reports
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ATAshwani Tiwari
Ashwani Tiwari
NSNaveen Soni
Naveen Soni
SDShweta Dongre
Shweta Dongre
MCMegha Chaudhary
Megha Chaudhary
BBBhawana Bissa
Bhawana Bissa

26 November 2025 in Human Cell
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ASArpit Sharma
Arpit Sharma
NSNaveen Soni
Naveen Soni
MCMegha Chaudhary
Megha Chaudhary
JJJingyue Jia
Jingyue Jia
BBBhawana Bissa
Bhawana Bissa

19 July 2024 in Biochimie
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NSNaveen Soni
Naveen Soni
BBBhawana Bissa
Bhawana Bissa

19 April 2022 in Life Sciences
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SVSubramanian V.A.
Subramanian V.A.
RBRavindra Kumar Bairwa
Ravindra Kumar Bairwa
PSPradeep Kumar Sharma
Pradeep Kumar Sharma
BBBhawana Bissa
Bhawana Bissa

11 May 2023 in Diseases
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NSNidhi Shukla
Nidhi Shukla
BKBhumandeep Kour
Bhumandeep Kour
DSDevendra Sharma
Devendra Sharma
MVManeesh Vijayvargiya
Maneesh Vijayvargiya
TST. C. Sadasukhi
T. C. Sadasukhi
Prashanth N SuravajhalaPrashanth N Suravajhala
Prashanth N Suravajhala
Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most prevalent cancers among men in India. Although studies on PCa have dealt with genetics, genomics, and the environmental influence in the causality of PCa, not many studies employing the Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) approaches of PCa have been carried out. In our previous study, we identified some causal genes and mutations specific to Indian PCa using Whole Exome Sequencing (WES). In the recent past, with the help of different cancer consortiums such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC), along with differentially expressed genes (DEGs), many cancer-associated novel non-coding RNAs have been identified as biomarkers. In this work, we attempt to identify differentially expressed genes (DEGs) including long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) associated with signature pathways from an Indian PCa cohort using the RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) approach. From a cohort of 60, we screened six patients who underwent prostatectomy; we performed whole transcriptome shotgun sequencing (WTSS)/RNA-sequencing to decipher the DEGs. We further normalized the read counts using fragments per kilobase of transcript per million mapped reads (FPKM) and analyzed the DEGs using a cohort of downstream regulatory tools, viz., GeneMANIA, Stringdb, Cytoscape-Cytohubba, and cbioportal, to map the inherent signatures associated with PCa. By comparing the RNA-seq data obtained from the pairs of normal and PCa tissue samples using our benchmarked in-house cuffdiff pipeline, we observed some important genes specific to PCa, such as STEAP2, APP, PMEPA1, PABPC1, NFE2L2, and HN1L, and some other important genes known to be involved in different cancer pathways, such as COL6A1, DOK5, STX6, BCAS1, BACE1, BACE2, LMOD1, SNX9, CTNND1, etc. We also identified a few novel lncRNAs such as LINC01440, SOX2OT, ENSG00000232855, ENSG00000287903, and ENST00000647843.1 that need to be characterized further. In comparison with publicly available datasets, we have identified characteristic DEGs and novel lncRNAs implicated in signature PCa pathways in an Indian PCa cohort which perhaps have not been reported. This has set a precedent for us to validate candidates further experimentally, and we firmly believe this will pave a way toward the discovery of biomarkers and the development of novel therapies.

20 June 2023 in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research
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NSNaveen Soni
Naveen Soni
GNGargi Nandi
Gargi Nandi
MCMegha Chaudhary
Megha Chaudhary
BBBhawana Bissa
Bhawana Bissa