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2025Zhang B, Gao J, Yin F, Aguirre L, Chen Q, Liang G, Hyde T, Kleinman J, Hu Q, Weinberger D, Ma L* (2025) CYP2D6 gene contributes to cognitive dysfunction and promotes excessive synapse loss. Under review
2025Wang J.Q., Yu R.X., Luo X.L., Qian Y., Feng Y., Li J.J., Zhou H., Ma L.*, Li Y.H.*, Su L.Y.* (2025) Flavoniods of Rosa sterilis S. D. Shi alleviates high-fat diet-induced hyperlipidemia in mice by increasing autophagy in adipocytes. Under review
2025Li H, Liu JC, Wang G, Liu H, Cao M, Sun L, Cheng P, Liu Y, Ma L*, Xiong Q* (2025) Cell2Spatial: precisely deciphering spatial transcriptomic spots at single-cell granularity. PLOS Biology; PMID: 41248160 (Impact Factor 2024 = 7.2)
2025Gong X, Chen L, He Y, Yan C, Ma L, Gao J, Zhang J, Zhang B (2025) LncRNA THUMPD3-AS1 Regulates Behavioral and Synaptic Structural Abnormalities in Schizophrenia via miR-485-5p and ARHGAP8. Advanced Science. PMID: 41168987
2025Khan M, Hu Q, Ma L* Bopassa JC* (2025) Targeting ferroptosis for neuroprotection: potential therapeutic avenues in neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases. Front. Physiol. 16:1641323. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2025.1641323.
2024Chen Q, Aguirre L, Liang G, Zhao H, Dong T, Borrego F, Rojas Id, Hu Q, Reyes C, Su L-Y, Zhang B, Lechleiter J, Goring H, Jager PD, Kleinman J, Hyde T, Li PP, Ruiz A, Weinberger D, Seshadri S, Ma L* (2024) Identification of a specific APOE transcript and functional elements associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Mol Neurodegeneration. PMID: 39210471; News on media. (Impact Factor 2024 = 17.5)
2023Chen Q, Aguirre L, Zhao H, Borrego F, Rojas Id, Su L-Y, Li PP, Zhang B, Kokovay E, Lechleiter J, Goring H, Jager PD, Kleinman J, Hyde T, Ruiz A, Weinberger D, Seshadri S, Ma L*. Identification of a specific APOE transcript and functional elements associated with Alzheimer's disease. medRxiv 2023: 2023.2010.2030.23297431.
2023Ma L et al. (2023) SNX19 in human autopsy brains and cerebral organoids. Alzheimer's & Dementia. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.071859
2023Ma L et al. (2023) SNX19 in Human Autopsy Brains and hiPSC-Derived Model. Neuropsychopharmacology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-023-01757-3
2021Ma L*, Scherbina A, Chetty S. (2021) Variations and expression features of CYP2D6 contribute to schizophrenia risk. Molecular Psychiatry. PMID: 32047265 *Corresponding author; pre-print on bioRxiv (Impact Factor 2020 = 15.9)
2020Ma L, Semick SA, Chen Q, Li C, Tao R, Price AJ, Shin JH, Jia Y, BrainSeq Consortium, Brandon NJ, Cross AJ, Hyde TM, Kleinman JE, Jaffe AE, Weinberger DR, Straub RE. (2020) Schizophrenia risk variants influence multiple classes of transcripts of sorting nexin 19 (SNX19). Molecular Psychiatry. PMID: 30635639; (Impact Factor 2019 = 12.3)
2019Ma L*, Chetty S. (2019) Variations and expression features of CYP2D6 contribute to schizophrenia risk. bioRxiv. *Corresponding author
2018Ma L, Jia P, Zhao Z (2018) Splicing QTL of human adipose-related traits. Scientific Reports 8:318. PMID: 29321599; (Impact Factor 2018 = 4.0)
2018Price AJ, Collado-Torres L, Ivanov NA, Xia W, Burke EE, Shin JH, Tao R, Ma L, Jia Y, Hyde TM, Kleinman JE, Weinberger DR, Jaffe AE (2018) Divergent neuronal DNA methylation patterns across human cortical development: Critical periods and a unique role of CpH methylation. Genome Biology 20:196. PMID: 31554518
2017Tenenbaum JD, Bhuvaneshwar K, Gagliardi JP, Hollis KF, Jia P, Ma L, Nagarajan R, Rakesh G, Subbian V, Visweswaran S, Zhao Z, Rozenblit L (2017) Translational bioinformatics in mental health: open access data sources and computational biomarker discovery. Briefings in Bioinformatics. PMID: 29186302
2015Su LY, Li H, Lv L, Feng YM, Li GD, Luo R, Zhou HJ, Lei XG, Ma L, Li JL, Xu L, Hu XT, Yao YG (2015) Melatonin attenuates MPTP-induced neurotoxicity via preventing CDK5-mediated autophagy and SNCA/α-synuclein aggregation. Autophagy 11:1745-1759. PMID: 26292069
2014Ma L, Wu DD, Ma SL, Tan L, Chen X, Tang NL, Yao YG (2014) Molecular evolution in the CREB1 signal pathway and a rare haplotype in CREB1 with genetic predisposition to schizophrenia. Journal of Psychiatric Research 57:84-89. PMID: 25043418; (Impact Factor 2014 = 3.9)
2013-1Ma L, Tang J, Wang D, Zhang W, Liu W, Liu XH, Gong W, Yao YG, Chen X (2013) Evaluating risk loci for schizophrenia distilled from genome-wide association studies in Han Chinese from central China. Molecular Psychiatry 18: 638-639. PMID: 22584866; (Impact Factor 2013 = 15.1)
2013-2Ma L, Zhang W, Tang J, Tan L, Yao YG, Chen X (2013) No association between genetic polymorphisms of the NDUFS7 gene and schizophrenia in Han Chinese. Psychiatric Genetics 23: 29-32. PMID: 22935918; (Impact Factor 2013 = 2.2)
2011Ma L, Qu YJ, Huai YT, Li ZJ, Wang J, Lan XY, Zhang CL, Wang JQ, Chen H (2011) Polymorphisms identification and associations of KLF7 gene with cattle growth traits. Livestock Science 135: 1-7; (Impact Factor 2011 = 1.5)
2011Qu Y, Liu Y, Ma L, Sweeney S, Lan X, Chen Z, Li Z, Lei C, Chen H (2011) Novel SNPs of butyrophilin (BTN1A1) and milk fat globule epidermal growth factor (EGF) 8 (MFG-E8) are associated with milk traits in dairy goat. Molecular Biology Reports 38: 371-377. PMID: 20361262