Xin Wang^#, Kun Wang^#, Weixing Zhang^#, Zhongjie Tang, Da Zhou, Chao Zhang, Wen-Zhao Zhong,Qing Ma*, Jin Xu*, Zheng Hu*.Clonal expansion dictates the efficacy of mitochondrial lineage tracing in single cells,Genome Biology, (2025), 26:70 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03540-7

Li J^#, Xu S^#, Liu Z^#, Yang L, Ming Z, Zhang R, Zhao W, Peng H, Quinn J, Wu M, Geng Y, Zhang Y, He J, Chen M, Li N, Shao N,Ma Q*. A noncanonical role of roX RNAs in autosomal epigenetic repression. Nat Commun16, 155 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-55711-y

Zhang R^#, Shi P^#, Xu S, Ming Z, Liu Z, He Y, Dai J, Matunis E, Xu J*,Ma Q*.Soma-germline communication drives sex maintenance in the Drosophila testis.National Science Review, 2024, nwae215, https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwae215

Ma Q^#*, Yang L^#, Tolentino K^#, Wang G, Zhao Y, Lizenburger UM, Shi Q, Zhu L, Yang C, Jiao H, Zhang F, Li R, Tsai M, Chen J, Lai L, Zeng H, Li L*, Chang HY*.Inducible lncRNA transgenic mice reveal continual role of HOTAIR in promoting breast cancer metastasis.eLife, 2022, 11: e79126. doi: 10.7554/eLife.79126

Li J*, Ming Z*, Yang L*, Wang T, Liu G,Ma Q^#.Long noncoding RNA XIST: Mechanisms for X chromosome inactivation, roles in sex-biased diseases, and therapeutic opportunities.Genes & Diseases, 2022, 9(6): 1478-1492. doi: 10.1016/j.gendis.2022.04.007

Wang T, Li J, Yang L, Wu M,Ma Q^#.The Role of Long Non-coding RNAs in Human Imprinting Disorders: Prospective Therapeutic Targets.Front Cell Dev Biol, 2021, 9:730014. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2021.730014.

Lu Z#, Guo JK, Wei Y, Dou DR, Zarnegar B,Ma Q, Li R, Zhao Y, Liu F, Choudhry H, Khavari PA, Chang HY#.Structural modularity of the XIST ribonucleoprotein complex.Nat Commun, 2020, 11(1):6163. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20040-3. 

Fang J*,Ma Q*, Chu C, Huang B, Li L, Cai P, Batista PJ, Tolentino KEM, Xu J, Li R, Du P, Qu K#& Chang HY#. PIRCh-seq: functional classification of non-coding RNAs associated with distinct histone modifications.Genome Biology, 2019, 20(1), 1-21. doi: 10.1186/s13059-019-1880-3.

Ang CE*,Ma Q*, Wapinski O*,Fan S, Flynn R, Coe B, Onoguchi M, Do B, Dukes-Rimsky L, Xu J, Lee Q, Wang L, Eichler E, PenningerJ, Eichler EE, Srivastava A, Wernig M#, Chang HY#.  The novel lncRNAlnc-NR2F1is pro-neurogenic and mutated in human neurodevelopmental disorders.Elife, 2019, 8:e41770 doi:10.7554/eLife.41770

Zhang W*, Zhang X*, Xue Z*, Li Y*, Ma Q, Ren X, Zhang J, Yang S, Yang L, Wu M, Ren M, Xi R, Wu Z, Liu J, Matunis E, Dai J#, Gao G#.Probing the function of metazoan histones with a systematic library of H3 and H4 mutants.Developmental Cell, 2019, 48: 1-14.  doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2018.11.047.

Ma Q, Chang HY.Single-cell profiling of lncRNAs in the developing human brain.Genome Biology, 2016, 17(1):68. doi: 10.1186/s13059-016-0933-0.

Ma Q, de Cuevas M, Matunis E.Chinmo is sufficient to induce male fate in somatic cells of the adult Drosophila ovary.Development, 2016, 143(5):754-63. doi: 10.1242/dev.129627

Ma Q,Wawersik M, Matunis E.The Jak-STAT target Chinmo prevents sex transformation of adult stem cells in the Drosophila testis niche.Developmental Cell, 2014, 31: 474-486.(Cover article, highlighted by Nature Review Genetics,Developmental Cell and Biology of Reproduction.)

Li Y,Ma Q,Cherry CM,Matunis E.Steroid signaling promotes stem cell maintenance in the Drosophila Testis.Developmental Biology, 2014, 394: 129-141. doi: 10.1016/j.ydbio.2014.07.016