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, Penninger J, Eichler EE, Srivastava A, Wernig M^#, Chang HY^#.  The novel lncRNA lnc-NR2F1 is 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