Deepti Anand

Research Scientist

Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware 1600 Rockland Road Wilmington, DE 19803

Biography

Deepti Anand, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist at Nemours Children's Health, Delaware valley. Dr. Anand joined Nemours in August 2022, where she is interested in developing effective ways to understand the complexity of pediatric genetic diseases to support children's health, well-being, and development. In her research, she applies genetics, genomics, and computational biology approaches to identify genetic factors linked to pediatric diseases and developmental defects and develop effective ways to understand the molecular mechanism underlying disease pathobiology. Before joining Nemours, Dr. Anand spearheaded several research projects, managed national and international collaborations, and published in leading journals during her research tenure at the University of Delaware. She was awarded several awards and a prestigious career-starter grant funding to support her research in pediatric eye disease cataracts.

Education

  • Post-doctoral Researcher - University of Delaware, Biological Sciences, 2020

  • Computational Biology
  • Developmental Biology

  • Genome-wide Gene-by-Sex Interaction Studies Identify Novel Nonsyndromic Orofacial Clefts Risk Locus; Journal of Dental Research; (2022).

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  • Whole-genome sequencing reveals de-novo mutations associated with nonsyndromic cleft lip/palate.; Scientific reports; (2022).

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  • Deficiency of the bZIP transcription factors Mafg and Mafk causes misexpression of genes in distinct pathways and results in lens embryonic developmental defects.; Frontiers in cell and developmental biology; (2022).

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  • Genome-Wide Analysis of Differentially Expressed miRNAs and Their Associated Regulatory Networks in Lenses Deficient for the Congenital Cataract-Linked Tudor Domain Containing Protein TDRD7.; Frontiers in cell and developmental biology; (2021).

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  • A large multiethnic GWAS meta-analysis of cataract identifies new risk loci and sex-specific effects.; Nature communications; (2021).

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  • Variant analyses of candidate genes in orofacial clefts in multi-ethnic populations.; Oral diseases; (2021).

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  • The Tudor-domain protein TDRD7, mutated in congenital cataract, controls the heat shock protein HSPB1 (HSP27) and lens fiber cell morphology.; Human molecular genetics; (2020).

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  • Pathogenic variants in <i>PLOD3</i> result in a Stickler syndrome-like connective tissue disorder with vascular complications.; Journal of medical genetics; (2019).

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  • A systematic genetic analysis and visualization of phenotypic heterogeneity among orofacial cleft GWAS signals.; Genetic epidemiology; (2019).

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  • Mutations in GDF11 and the extracellular antagonist, Follistatin, as a likely cause of Mendelian forms of orofacial clefting in humans.; Human mutation; (2019).

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  • Molecular characterization of the human lens epithelium-derived cell line SRA01/04.; Experimental eye research; (2019).

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  • MS/MS in silico subtraction-based proteomic profiling as an approach to facilitate disease gene discovery: application to lens development and cataract.; Human genetics; (2019).

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  • <i>Missense Pathogenic variants in KIF4A</i> Affect Dental Morphogenesis Resulting in X-linked Taurodontism, Microdontia and Dens-Invaginatus.; Frontiers in genetics; (2019).

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  • High-throughput transcriptome analysis reveals that the loss of Pten activates a novel NKX6-1/RASGRP1 regulatory module to rescue microphthalmia caused by Fgfr2-deficient lenses.; Human genetics; (2019).

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  • Six2 regulates Pax9 expression, palatogenesis and craniofacial bone formation.; Developmental biology; (2019).

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  • Genomic analyses in African populations identify novel risk loci for cleft palate.; Human molecular genetics; (2019).

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  • RNA sequencing-based transcriptomic profiles of embryonic lens development for cataract gene discovery.; Human genetics; (2018).

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  • The RNA-binding protein Celf1 post-transcriptionally regulates p27Kip1 and Dnase2b to control fiber cell nuclear degradation in lens development.; PLoS genetics; (2018).

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  • Mutations in the Epithelial Cadherin-p120-Catenin Complex Cause Mendelian Non-Syndromic Cleft Lip with or without Cleft Palate.; American journal of human genetics; (2018).

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  • iSyTE 2.0: a database for expression-based gene discovery in the eye.; Nucleic acids research; (2018).

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  • Identification of OAF and PVRL1 as candidate genes for an ocular anomaly characterized by Peters anomaly type 2 and ectopia lentis.; Experimental eye research; (2018).

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  • Mutation update of transcription factor genes FOXE3, HSF4, MAF, and PITX3 causing cataracts and other developmental ocular defects.; Human mutation; (2018).

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  • PHASIS: A computational suite for <i>de novo</i> discovery and characterization of phased, siRNA-generating loci and their miRNA triggers; []; (2017).

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  • Exome sequencing provides additional evidence for the involvement of ARHGAP29 in Mendelian orofacial clefting and extends the phenotypic spectrum to isolated cleft palate.; Birth defects research; (2017).

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  • N-myc regulates growth and fiber cell differentiation in lens development.; Developmental biology; (2017).

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  • β1-Integrin Deletion From the Lens Activates Cellular Stress Responses Leading to Apoptosis and Fibrosis.; Investigative ophthalmology & visual science; (2017).

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  • Novel phenotypes and loci identified through clinical genomics approaches to pediatric cataract.; Human genetics; (2016).

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  • Systems biology of lens development: A paradigm for disease gene discovery in the eye.; Experimental eye research; (2016).

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  • Compound mouse mutants of bZIP transcription factors Mafg and Mafk reveal a regulatory network of non-crystallin genes associated with cataract.; Human genetics; (2015).

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  • An integrative approach to analyze microarray datasets for prioritization of genes relevant to lens biology and disease.; Genomics data; (2015).

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  • Prox1 and fibroblast growth factor receptors form a novel regulatory loop controlling lens fiber differentiation and gene expression.; Development (Cambridge, England); (2015).

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  • Molecular characterization of mouse lens epithelial cell lines and their suitability to study RNA granules and cataract associated genes.; Experimental eye research; (2014).

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  • Validation of gene based marker-QTL association for grain dimension traits in rice; Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology; (2013).

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  • Analysis of molecular diversity and fingerprinting of commercially grown Indian rice hybrids; Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology; (2012).

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  • Marker-assisted improvement of bacterial blight resistance in parental lines of Pusa RH10, a superfine grain aromatic rice hybrid; Molecular Breeding; (2010).

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