Shailja Pathania

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Shailja Pathania is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Shailja Pathania has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Shailja Pathania's work include DNA Repair Mechanisms (11 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (6 papers). Shailja Pathania is often cited by papers focused on DNA Repair Mechanisms (11 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (8 papers) and DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (6 papers). Shailja Pathania collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Hungary. Shailja Pathania's co-authors include David M. Livingston, Yoshihiro Nakatani, Sharon B. Cantor, Roger A. Greenberg, Bijan Sobhian, Sarah J. Hill, Rasika M. Harshey, Makkuni Jayaram, Elodie Hatchi and Jean Feunteun and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Shailja Pathania

24 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

BRCA1 Recruitment to Transcriptional Pause Sites Is Required for R-Loop-Driven DNA Damage Repair

2015 351 citations Elodie Hatchi, Konstantina Skourti-Stathaki et al. Molecular Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shailja Pathania United States	16	1.2k	407	279	174	114	26	1.3k
Martin R.G. Taylor United Kingdom	8	1.6k 1.4×	452 1.1×	243 0.9×	195 1.1×	120 1.1×	9	1.7k
Yuka Machida United States	12	1.1k 0.9×	296 0.7×	188 0.7×	167 1.0×	243 2.1×	15	1.2k
Etsuko Shibata United States	19	1.2k 1.0×	367 0.9×	177 0.6×	281 1.6×	102 0.9×	24	1.3k
Gargi Ghosal United States	16	1.1k 0.9×	250 0.6×	151 0.5×	195 1.1×	134 1.2×	22	1.2k
James P. Vaughn United States	24	1.8k 1.6×	427 1.0×	409 1.5×	173 1.0×	91 0.8×	33	2.2k
Michelle Le Beau United States	8	1.2k 1.0×	368 0.9×	270 1.0×	360 2.1×	136 1.2×	9	1.3k
Stéphane Koundrioukoff France	18	1.5k 1.3×	388 1.0×	301 1.1×	158 0.9×	315 2.8×	24	1.7k
Rajula Elango United States	10	1.3k 1.1×	351 0.9×	162 0.6×	178 1.0×	127 1.1×	12	1.4k
Rémy Betous France	15	1.3k 1.1×	386 0.9×	186 0.7×	232 1.3×	167 1.5×	19	1.3k
Vladimir P. Bermudez United States	21	1.9k 1.6×	475 1.2×	207 0.7×	298 1.7×	328 2.9×	29	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shailja Pathania

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Rayamajhi, Sagar, Leonidas E. Bantis, Rashna Madan, et al.. (2025). Defining the Ovarian Cancer Precancerous Landscape through Modeling Fallopian Tube Epithelium Reprogramming Driven by Extracellular Vesicles. Cancer Research Communications. 5(8). 1266–1281.

Godin, Stephen K., Joshua Yang, Nisha Patel, et al.. (2025). BRCA2 deficiency and replication stress drive APOBEC3-Mediated genomic instability. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9544–9544.

Li, Carman Man-Chung, Michael Oliphant, M. Thomas, et al.. (2024). Brca1 haploinsufficiency promotes early tumor onset and epigenetic alterations in a mouse model of hereditary breast cancer. Nature Genetics. 56(12). 2763–2775. 4 indexed citations

Islam, Kazi Nazrul, et al.. (2023). The RNA-binding protein Adad1 is necessary for germ cell maintenance and meiosis in zebrafish. PLoS Genetics. 19(8). e1010589–e1010589. 6 indexed citations

Zervantonakis, Ioannis K., Laura M. Selfors, Jia‐Ren Lin, et al.. (2020). Fibroblast–tumor cell signaling limits HER2 kinase therapy response via activation of MTOR and antiapoptotic pathways. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(28). 16500–16508. 27 indexed citations

Maertens, Ophélia, Ryan Kuzmickas, Haley E. Manchester, et al.. (2019). MAPK Pathway Suppression Unmasks Latent DNA Repair Defects and Confers a Chemical Synthetic Vulnerability in BRAF-, NRAS -, and NF1 -Mutant Melanomas. Cancer Discovery. 9(4). 526–545. 65 indexed citations

Birkbak, Nicolai J., Y. Li, Shailja Pathania, et al.. (2018). Overexpression of BLM promotes DNA damage and increased sensitivity to platinum salts in triple-negative breast and serous ovarian cancers. Annals of Oncology. 29(4). 903–909. 47 indexed citations

Bierie, Brian, Shailja Pathania, Ben Liu, et al.. (2016). BRCA1/FANCD2/BRG1-Driven DNA Repair Stabilizes the Differentiation State of Human Mammary Epithelial Cells. Molecular Cell. 63(2). 277–292. 55 indexed citations

Hatchi, Elodie, Konstantina Skourti-Stathaki, Steffen Ventz, et al.. (2015). BRCA1 Recruitment to Transcriptional Pause Sites Is Required for R-Loop-Driven DNA Damage Repair. Molecular Cell. 57(4). 636–647. 351 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pathania, Shailja, Rachel Reed, Christian Bowman-Colin, et al.. (2014). BRCA1 haploinsufficiency for replication stress suppression in primary cells. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5496–5496. 112 indexed citations

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Lu, David, Nana Naetar, Yiduo Hu, et al.. (2013). Physiological modulation of endogenous BRCA1 p220 abundance suppresses DNA damage during the cell cycle. Genes & Development. 27(20). 2274–2291. 17 indexed citations

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Pathania, Shailja, Jenna Nguyen, Sarah J. Hill, et al.. (2011). BRCA1 Is Required for Postreplication Repair after UV-Induced DNA Damage. Molecular Cell. 44(2). 235–251. 88 indexed citations

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Johnson, Neil, Dongpo Cai, Richard D. Kennedy, et al.. (2009). Cdk1 Participates in BRCA1-Dependent S Phase Checkpoint Control in Response to DNA Damage. Molecular Cell. 35(3). 327–339. 107 indexed citations

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Greenberg, Roger A., Bijan Sobhian, Shailja Pathania, et al.. (2006). Multifactorial contributions to an acute DNA damage response by BRCA1/BARD1-containing complexes. Genes & Development. 20(1). 34–46. 245 indexed citations

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Au, Terry Kit-fong, Shailja Pathania, & Rasika M. Harshey. (2004). True reversal of Mu integration. The EMBO Journal. 23(16). 3408–3420. 16 indexed citations

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Yin, Zhi‐Qi, Makkuni Jayaram, Shailja Pathania, & Rasika M. Harshey. (2004). The Mu Transposase Interwraps Distant DNA Sites within a Functional Transpososome in the Absence of DNA Supercoiling. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(7). 6149–6156. 11 indexed citations

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Pathania, Shailja. (2003). A unique right end-enhancer complex precedes synapsis of Mu ends: the enhancer is sequestered within the transpososome throughout transposition. The EMBO Journal. 22(14). 3725–3736. 19 indexed citations

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Grainge, Ian, Shailja Pathania, Alexander Vologodskii, Rasika M. Harshey, & Makkuni Jayaram. (2002). Symmetric DNA Sites are Functionally Asymmetric Within Flp and Cre Site-specific DNA Recombination Synapses. Journal of Molecular Biology. 320(3). 515–527. 23 indexed citations

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Pathania, Shailja, Makkuni Jayaram, & Rasika M. Harshey. (2002). Path of DNA within the Mu Transpososome. Cell. 109(4). 425–436. 46 indexed citations

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Lee, Jehee, Yuri Voziyanov, Shailja Pathania, & Makkuni Jayaram. (1998). Structural Alterations and Conformational Dynamics in Holliday Junctions Induced by Binding of a Site-Specific Recombinase. Molecular Cell. 1(4). 483–493. 15 indexed citations

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