September 23, 2026

Nana and Jessica’s paper on MPRA of human cortical structure-associated variants has now been published in Nature Neuroscience! This work was also a collaboration with Jason Stein, a long-standing collaborator of our lab.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02454-2  Tweetorial: https://x.com/hyejung_won/status/2102755044894691578 Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/hyejungwon.bsky.social/post/3mw6v6kd6zc2t

UNC press release: https://news.unchealthcare.org/2026/09/unc-scientists-reveal-how-specific-changes-in-dna-shape-human-brain-structure/