Publications

Lyu P, Agarwal G, Guo CJ, Sychla A, Bourgeois W, Ye T, Weng C, Antoszewski M, Joubran S, Caulier A, Poeschla M, Armstrong SA, Rouskin S, Sankaran VG. Genetic variation reveals a homeotic long noncoding RNA that modulates human hematopoietic stem cells. Cell. 2026 Jun 25;189(13):4022-4039.e21. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2026.04.014. Epub 2026 May 1. PMID: 42068976; PMCID: PMC13138457.

Poeschla M, Sankaran VG. Genetic influences on haematopoiesis. Nat Rev Genet. 2026 Mar 23. doi: 10.1038/s41576-026-00947-1. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41872543.

Agarwal G, Antoszewski M, Xie X, Pershad Y, Arora UP, Poon CL, Lyu P, Lee AJ, Guo CJ, Ye T, Norford LB, Neehus AL, Della Volpe L, Wahlster L, Ranasinghe D, Ho TC, Barlowe TS, Chow A, Schurer A, Taggart J, Durham BH, Abdel-Wahab O, McGraw KL, Allan JM, Soldatov R, Bick AG, Kharas MG, Sankaran VG. Inherited resilience to clonal hematopoiesis by modifying stem cell RNA regulation. Science. 2026 Jan;391(6780):52-58. doi: 10.1126/science.adx4174. Epub 2026 Jan 1. PMID: 41477881; PMCID: PMC12850507.

Della Volpe L, Lee AJ, Antoszewski M, Deik AA, Safina KR, Gao T, Guo CJ, Ye T, Lyu P, Martin-Rufino JD, Castano N, Good J, Molina-Aponte Y, Zhao J, Clish CB, van Galen P, Sankaran VG. Inhibiting ferroptosis enhances ex vivo expansion of human haematopoietic stem cells. Nat Cell Biol. 2025 Dec;27(12):2214-2224. doi: 10.1038/s41556-025-01814-7. Epub 2025 Nov 18. PMID: 41254392; PMCID: PMC12680438.

Fleming TJ, Antoszewski M, Lambo S, Gundry MC, Piussi R, Wahlster L, Shah S, Reed FE, Dong KD, Paulo JA, Gygi SP, Mimoso C, Goldman SR, Adelman K, Perry JA, Pikman Y, Stegmaier K, Barrachina MN, Machlus KR, Hovestadt V, Arruda A, Minden MD, Voit RA, Sankaran VG. CEBPA repression by MECOM blocks differentiation to drive aggressive leukemias. Blood. 2025 Dec 18;146(25):3019-3035. doi: 10.1182/blood.2025028954. PMID: 40991835; PMCID: PMC12824682.

Poeschla M, Arora UP, Walne A, McReynolds LJ, Niewisch MR, Giri N, Zeigler LP, Gusev A, Machiela MJ, Tummala H, Savage SA, Sankaran VG. Polygenic modifiers impact penetrance and expressivity in telomere biology disorders. J Clin Invest. 2025 Jun 3;135(16):e191107. doi: 10.1172/JCI191107. PMID: 40459934; PMCID: PMC12352891.

Martin-Rufino JD, Caulier A, Lee S, Castano N, King E, Joubran S, Jones M, Goldman SR, Arora UP, Wahlster L, Lander ES, Sankaran VG. Transcription factor networks disproportionately enrich for heritability of blood cell phenotypes. Science. 2025 Apr 4;388(6742):52-59. doi: 10.1126/science.ads7951. Epub 2025 Apr 3. PMID: 40179192; PMCID: PMC12168499.

Voit RA, Liao X, Caulier A, Antoszewski M, Cohen B, Armant M, Lu HY, Fleming TJ, Kamal E, Wahlster L, Roche AM, Everett JK, Petrichenko A, Huang MM, Clarke W, Myers KC, Forester C, Perez-Atayde A, Bushman FD, Pellin D, Shimamura A, Williams DA, Sankaran VG. Regulated GATA1 expression as a universal gene therapy for Diamond-Blackfan anemia. Cell Stem Cell. 2025 Jan 2;32(1):38-52.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2024.10.012. Epub 2024 Nov 11. PMID: 39532107; PMCID: PMC11698655.

de Smith AJ, Wahlster L, Jeon S, Kachuri L, Black S, Langie J, Cato LD, Nakatsuka N, Chan TF, Xia G, Mazumder S, Yang W, Gazal S, Eng C, Hu D, Burchard EG, Ziv E, Metayer C, Mancuso N, Yang JJ, Ma X, Wiemels JL, Yu F, Chiang CWK, Sankaran VG. A noncoding regulatory variant in IKZF1 increases acute lymphoblastic leukemia risk in Hispanic/Latino children. Cell Genom. 2024 Apr 10;4(4):100526. doi: 10.1016/j.xgen.2024.100526. Epub 2024 Mar 26. PMID: 38537633; PMCID: PMC11019360.