Dr. Aparup Das
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Dr. Aparup Das

Research Scientist
National Institute for Research, India

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Genetics from Banaras Hindu University, India

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Area of Interest:

Biomedical Sciences
100%
Infectious Diseases
62%
Epidemiolocal
90%
Parasitology
75%
Genomics
55%

Research Publications in Numbers

Books
0
Chapters
0
Articles
0
Abstracts
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Selected Publications

  1. Singh, U.S., N. Siwal, V. Pande and A. Das, 2017. Can mixed parasite infections thwart targeted malaria elimination program in India? BioMed Res. Int., Vol. 2017. 10.1155/2017/2847548.
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  2. Khathiresan, E., R. Paramasivan, V. Thenmozhi, A. Das and K.J. Dhanajeyan et al., 2017. Development and multi-use applications of dengue NS1 monoclonal antibody for early diagnosis. RSC Adv., 7: 1927-1931.
  3. Vikram, K., B.N. Nagpal, V. Pande, A. Srivastava and R. Saxena et al., 2016. An epidemiological study of dengue in Delhi, India. Acta Trop., 153: 21-27.
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  4. Singh, U.S., M. Praharaj, C. Sharma and A. Das, 2016. Paradigm shift in transmission of vector borne diseases. J. Emerg. Infect. Dis., Vol. 1. 10.4172/2472-4998.1000116.
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  5. Mbenda, H.G.N., I. Guado and A. Das, 2016. An additional observation of Plasmodium vivax malaria infection in Duffy-negative individuals from Cameroon. J. Infect. Dev. Countries, 10: 682-686.
  6. Mbenda, H.G.N. and A. Das, 2016. Analysis of genetic diversity in the chloroquine-resistant gene Pfcrt in field Plasmodium falciparum isolates from five regions of the southern Cameroon. Infect. Genet. Evol., 44: 450-458.
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  7. Kar, N.P., K. Chauhan, N. Nanda, A. Kumar, J.M. Carlton and A. Das, 2016. Comparative assessment on the prevalence of mutations in the Plasmodium falciparum drug-resistant genes in two different ecotypes of Odisha state, India. Infect. Genet. Evol., 41: 47-55.
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  8. Dash, M. and A. Das, 2016. A one-stop novel drug for malaria treatment and control. J. Emerg. Infect. Dis., Vol. 1. 10.4172/2472-4998.1000107.
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  9. Tyagi, S. and A. Das, 2015. Mitochondrial population genomic analyses reveal population structure and demography of Indian Plasmodium falciparum. Mitochondrion, 24: 9-21.
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  10. Tripathi, M. and A. Das, 2015. Genotyping malaria parasites with DNA barcodes. Trop. Med. Int. Health, 20: 1636-1638.
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  11. Kochar, D., A. Das and A. Maji, 2015. Malaria. In: Adult Immunization, Murugananthan, A., D. Mathai and S.K. Sharma (Eds.). 2nd Edn., Association of Physicians of India, India, ISBN: 978-93-5152-190-7, pp: 149-154.
  12. Das, A., 2015. The distinctive features of Indian malaria parasites. Trends Parasitol., 31: 83-86.
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  13. Tyagi, S., V. Pande and A. Das, 2014. Whole mitochondrial genome sequence of an Indian Plasmodium falciparum field isolate. Korean J. Parasitol., 52: 99-103.
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  14. Tyagi, S., V. Pande and A. Das, 2014. New insights into the evolutionary history of Plasmodium falciparum from mitochondrial genome sequence analyses of Indian isolates. Mol. Ecol., 23: 2975-2987.
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  15. Tyagi, S., V. Pande and A. Das, 2014. Mitochondrial genome sequence diversity of Indian Plasmodium falciparum isolates. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Crutz, 109: 494-498.
  16. Srivastava, H., N.G. Huong, U. Arunyawat and A. Das, 2014. Molecular population genetics of the NADPH cytochrome P450 reductase (CPR) gene in Anopheles minimus. Genetica, 142: 295-315.
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  17. Mbenda, H.G.N., G. Awasthi, P.K. Singh, I. Gouado and A. Das, 2014. Does malaria epidemiology project Cameroon as 'Africa in miniature'? J. Biosci., 39: 727-738.
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  18. Mbenda, H.G.N. and A. Das, 2014. Molecular evidence of Plasmodium vivax mono and mixed malaria parasite infections in Duffy-negative native Cameroonians. PLoS One, Vol. 9. 10.1371/journal.pone.0103262.
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  19. Gupta, P., V. Pande, A. Das and V. Singh, 2014. DNA sequence polymorphisms of the Vir genes in Indian Plasmodium vivax populations. Korean J. Parasitol., 52: 557-564.
  20. Dixit, J., U. Arunyawat, N.T. Huong and A. Das, 2014. Multilocus nuclear DNA markers reveal population structure and demography of Anopheles minimus. Mol. Ecol., 23: 1599-1618.
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  21. Chauhan, K., V. Pande and A. Das, 2014. DNA sequence polymorphisms of the pfmdr1 gene and association of mutations with the pfcrt gene in Indian Plasmodium falciparum isolates. Infect. Genet. Evol., 26: 213-222.
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  22. Mbenda, H.G.N. and A. Das, 2013. Occurrence of multiple chloroquine-resistant Pfcrt haplotypes and emergence of the S(agt) VMNT type in Cameroonian Plasmodium falciparum. J. Antimicrob. Chemother., 69: 400-403.
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  23. Khan, N., V. Pandey and A. Das, 2013. NAT2 sequence polymorphisms and acetylation profiles in Indians. Pharmacogenomics, 14: 289-303.
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  24. Chauhan, K., V. Pande and A. Das, 2013. Analyses of genetic variations at microsatellite loci present in-and-around the Pfcrt gene in Indian Plasmodium falciparum. Infect. Genet. Evol., 20: 476-487.
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  25. Carlton, J., A. Das and A.A. Escalante, 2013. The genomics, population genetics and evolutionary history of Plasmodium vivax. Adv. Parasitol., 81: 203-222.
  26. Awasthi, G. and A. Das, 2013. Evolutionary genetics of chloroquine-resistant malaria: A haplotypic view. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Crutz, 108: 947-961.
  27. Khan, N., A. Chittoria, V. Pandey, Y. Jaiswal and A. Das, 2012. Development of multilocus putatively neutral DNA markers in the X-chromosome for population genetic studies in humans. Ann. Hum. Biol., 39: 281-289.
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  28. Gupta, P., A. Das, O.P. Singh, S.K. Ghosh and V. Singh, 2012. Assessing the genetic diversity of the vir genes in Indian Plasmodium vivax population. Acta Trop., 124: 133-139.
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  29. Gupta, B., N. Srivastava and A. Das, 2012. Inferring the evolutionary history of Indian Plasmodium vivax from population genetic analyses of multilocus nuclear DNA fragments. Mol. Ecol., 21: 1597-1616.
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  30. Das, A., A.R. Anvikar, L.J. Cator, R.C. Dhiman and A. Eapen et al., 2012. Malaria in India: The center for the study of complex malaria in India. Acta Trop., 121: 267-273.
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  31. Chittoria, A., S. Mohanty, Y. Jaiswal and A. Das, 2012. Natural selection mediated association of the Duffy (FY) gene polymorphisms with Plasmodium vivax malaria in India. PLoS One, Vol. 7. 10.1371/journal.pone.0045219.
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  32. Awasthi, G., G.B.K.S. Prasad and A. Das, 2012. Pfcrt haplotypes and evolutionary history of chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Crutz, 107: 129-134.
  33. Sutar, S.D., B. Gupta, M. Ranjit, S.K. Kar and A. Das, 2011. Sequence analysis of coding DNA fragments of Pfcrt and Pfmdr-1 genes in Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Odisha, India. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Crutz, 106: 78-84.
  34. Khan, N., V. Pandey and A. Das, 2011. Characterization, comparative genomics and evolutionary inferences of a human drug metabolizing (NAT2) gene. Interventional Med. Applied Sci., 3: 65-73.
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  35. Dixit, J., H. Srivastava, O.P. Singh, D.N. Saksena and A. Das, 2011. Multilocus nuclear DNA markers and genetic parameters in an Indian Anopheles minimus population. Infect. Genet. Evol., 11: 572-579.
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  36. Awasthi, G., G.B. Prasad and A. Das, 2011. Population genetic analyses of pfcrt haplotypes reveal the evolutionary history of chloroquineresistant malaria in India. Int. J. Parasitol., 41: 705-709.
  37. Awasthi, G., G. Srivastava and A. Das, 2011. Comparative evolutionary analyses of beta globin gene in eutherian, dinosaurian and neopterygii taxa. J. Vector Borne Dis., 48: 37-86.
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  38. Tyagi, S., M. Sharma and A. Das, 2010. Comparative genomic analysis of simple sequence repeats in three Plasmodium species. Parasitol. Res., 108: 451-458.
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  39. Srivastava, H., M. Sharma, J. Dixit and A. Das, 2010. Evolutionary insights into insecticide resistance gene families of Anopheles gambiae. Infect. Genet. Evol., 10: 620-628.
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  40. Sharma, M., S. Mohanty, S. Tyagi and A. Das, 2010. Comparative and evolutionary genomics of malaria parasites. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 79: 111-121.
  41. Sharma, M., A.P. Dash and A. Das, 2010. Evolutionary genetic insights into Plasmodium falciparum functional genes. Parasitol. Res., 106: 149-155.
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  42. Gupta, B., P. Gupta, A. Sharma, V. Singh, A.P. Dash and A. Das, 2010. High proportion of mixed‐species Plasmodium infections in India revealed by PCR diagnostic assay. Trop. Med. Int. Health, 15: 819-824.
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  43. Gupta, B., G. Awasthi and A. Das, 2010. Malaria parasite genome scan: Insights into antimalarial resistance. Parasitol. Res., 107: 495-499.
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  44. Gupta, B., A.P. Dash, N. Srivastava and A. Das, 2010. Single nucleotide polymorphisms, putatively neutral DNA markers and population genetic parameters in Indian Plasmodium vivax isolates. Parasitology, 137: 1721-1730.
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  45. Dixit, J., H. Srivastava, M. Sharma, M.K. Das and O.P. Singh et al., 2010. Phylogenetic inference of Indian malaria vectors from multilocus DNA sequences. Infect. Genet. Evol., 10: 755-763.
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  46. Srivastava, H., J. Dixit, A.P. Dash and A. Das, 2009. Fine-scale evolutionary insights into Anopheles gambiae X chromosome. J. Biomed. Sci. Eng., 2: 304-311.
  47. Singh, V., N. Mishra, G. Awasthi, A.P. Dash and A. Das, 2009. Why is it important to study malaria epidemiology in India? Trends Parasitol., 25: 452-457.
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  48. Raghavendra, K., B.P.N. Reddy, A.P. Dash and A. Das, 2009. Reanalysis of rDNA-ITS2 region sequences of Anopheles cf. culicifacies ‘Bluchistan’ revealed conspecificity to A. dthali. Curr. Sci., 97: 923-925.
  49. Kar, P.K., B.N. Nagpal, V.K. Dua, S.K. Ghosh and K. Raghavendra et al., 2009. Molecular characterization of chikungunya virus from Andhra Pradesh, India. Indian J. Med. Res., 129: 335-337.
  50. Das, A., M. Sharma, B. Gupta and A.P. Dash, 2009. Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax: So similar, yet very different. Parasitol. Res., 105: 1169-1171.
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  51. Awasthi, G., A.P. Dash and A. Das, 2009. Evolutionary insights into duffy gene in mammalian taxa with comparative genetic analysis. J. Vector Borne Dis., 46: 230-236.
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  52. Awasthi, G., A.P. Dash and A. Das, 2009. Characterization and evolutionary analysis of human CD36 gene. Indian J. Med. Res., 129: 534-541.
  53. Schug, M.D., J.F. Baines, A. Killon-Atwood, S. Mohanty and A. Das et al., 2008. Evolution of mating isolation between populations of Drosophila ananassae. Mol. Ecol., 17: 2706-2721.
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  54. Bajaj, R., S. Mohanty, A.P. Dash and A. Das, 2008. Fine-scale genetic characterization of Plasmodium falciparum chromosome 7 encompassing the antigenic var and the drug-resistant Ppfcrt genes. J. Genet., 87: 59-64.
  55. Awasthi, G., S. Singh, A.P. Dash and A. Das, 2008. Genetic characterization and evolutionary inference of TNF-α through computational analysis. Braz. J. Infect. Dis., 12: 374-379.
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  56. Thomas, C., S. Shalini, N. Raghavendra, M. Choudhury, A. Verma, H. Joshi, A.P. Dash and A. Das, 2007. Development of nuclear DNA markers for evolutionary studies in Plasmodium falciparum. J. Genet., 86: 65-68.
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  57. Das, A., R. Bajaj, S. Mohanty and V. Swain, 2007. Genetic diversity and evolutionary history of Plasmodium falciparum and P. vivax. Curr. Sci., 92: 1516-1524.
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  58. Das, A. and A.P. Dash, 2007. Evolutionary paradigm of chloroquine-resistant malaria in India. Trends Parasitol., 23: 132-135.
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  59. Das, A., S. Mohanty and W. Stephan, 2004. Inferring the population structure and demography of Drosophila ananassae from multilocus data. Genetics, 168: 1975-1985.
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  60. Baines, J.F., A. Das, S. Mousset and W. Stephan, 2004. The role of natural selection in genetic differentiation of worldwide populations of Drosophila ananassae. Genetics, 168: 1987-1998.
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  61. Vogl, C., A. Das, M. Beaumont, S. Mohanty and W. Stephan, 2003. Population subdivision and molecular sequence variation: Theory and analysis of Drosophila ananassae data. Genetics, 165: 1385-1395.
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  62. Baines, J.F., Y. Chen, A. Das and W. Stephan, 2002. DNA sequence variation at a duplicated gene: excess of replacement polymorphism and extensive haplotype structure in the Drosophila melanogaster bicoid region. Mol. Biol. Evol., 19: 989-998.
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  63. Das, A., S. Mohanty, P. Capy and J.R. David, 1995. Mating propensity of Indian Drosophila melanogaster populations with D. simulans: A nonadaptive latitudinal cline. Heredity, 74: 562-566.
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  64. Das, A., S. Mohanty and B.B. Parida, 1994. Inversion polymorphism and extra bristles in Indian natural populations of Drosophila ananassae: Joint variation. Heredity, 73: 405-409.
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  65. Singh, B.N. and A. Das, 1992. Further evidence for latitudinal inversion clines in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster from India. J. Heredity, 83: 227-230.
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  66. Das, A. and B.N. Singh, 1991. Genetic differentiation and inversion clines in Indian natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Genome, 34: 618-625.
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  67. Singh, B.N. and A. Das, 1990. Inversion polymorphism in Indian natural populations of Drosophila melonogaster. Genome, 33: 311-316.
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