Featured Publications
Developmental organization of sensory and sympathetic ganglia.
Nature, 2026.
Keng Ioi Vong*, Yanina D Alvarez, Qingquan Zhang, Jiaming Weng, Geoffroy Noel, Scott T Barton, Changuk Chung, Robyn Howarth, Naomi Meave, Fiza Jiwani, Sai B Patarlapalli, Fenyong Yao, Fugui Zhu, Chelsea Barrows, Arzoo Patel, Jian Xiong Wang, Neil C Chi, Stephen F Kingsmore, Melanie D White, Xiaoxu Yang*, Joseph G Gleeson#
Risk of meningomyelocele mediated by the common 22q11.2 deletion.
Science, 2024.
Keng Ioi Vong*, Sangmoon Lee*, Kit Sing Au, T Blaine Crowley, Valeria Capra, Jeremiah Martino, Meade Haller, Camila Araújo, Hélio R Machado, Renee George, Bryn Gerding, Kiely N James, Valentina Stanley, Nan Jiang, Kameron Alu, Naomi Meave……Spina Bifida Sequencing Consortium, Joseph G. Gleeson
SOX9-COL9A3 dependent regulation of choroid plexus epithelial polarity governs blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier integrity.
PNAS, 2021.
Keng Ioi Vong, Tsz Ching Ma, Baiying Li, Thomas Chun Ning Leung, Wenyan Nong, Sai Ming Ngai, Jerome Ho Lam Hui, Liwen Jiang, Kin Ming Kwan
The contribution of de novo coding mutations to meningomyelocele.
Nature, 2025.
Yoo-Jin Jiny Ha, Ashna Nisal, Isaac Tang, Chanjae Lee, Ishani Jhamb, Cassidy Wallace, Robyn Howarth, Sarah Schroeder, Keng Ioi Vong, Naomi Meave, Fiza Jiwani, Chelsea Barrows, Sangmoon Lee, Nan Jiang, Arzoo Patel, Krisha Bagga, Niyati Banka, Liana Friedman, Francisco A Blanco, Seyoung Yu, Soeun Rhee, Hui Su Jeon……Joseph G Gleeson
Other Publications
Cell-type-resolved mosaicism reveals clonal dynamics of the human forebrain.
Nature, 2024.
Changuk Chung, Xiaoxu Yang, Robert F Hevner, Katie Kennedy, Keng Ioi Vong, Yang Liu, Arzoo Patel, Rahul Nedunuri, Scott T Barton, Geoffroy Noel, Chelsea Barrows, Valentina Stanley, Swapnil Mittal, Martin W Breuss, Johannes CM Schlachetzki, Stephen F Kingsmore, Joseph G Gleeson
Comprehensive multi-omic profiling of somatic mutations in malformations of cortical development.
Nature Genetics, 2023.
Changuk Chung, Xiaoxu Yang, Taejeong Bae, Keng Ioi Vong, Swapnil Mittal, Catharina Donkels, H Westley Phillips, Zhen Li, Ashley PL Marsh, Martin W Breuss, Laurel L Ball, Camila Araújo Bernardino Garcia, Renee D George, Jing Gu, Mingchu Xu, Chelsea Barrows, Kiely N James, Valentina Stanley…… Joseph G Gleeson
TMEM161B modulates radial glial scaffolding in neocortical development.
PNAS, 2023.
Lu Wang, Caleb Heffner, Keng Ioi Vong, Chelsea Barrows, Yoo-Jin Ha, Sangmoon Lee, Pablo Lara-Gonzalez, Ishani Jhamb, Dennis Van Der Meer, Robert Loughnan, Nadine Parker, David Sievert, Swapnil Mittal, Mahmoud Y Issa, Ole A Andreassen, Anders Dale, William B Dobyns, Maha S Zaki, Stephen A Murray, Joseph G Gleeson
Spatiotemporal decline of BMP signaling activity in neural progenitors mediates fate transition and safeguards neurogenesis.
Cell Reports, 2020.
Tsz Ching Ma, Keng Ioi Vong, Kin Ming Kwan
Molecular Brain, 2015.
Keng Ioi Vong*, Crystal Kit Ying Leung*, Richard R Behringer, Kin Ming Kwan