1. Wei YJ, Ding JF, Zhao Y, Wang XR, Liu YQ, Xu YY, Xiong H, Zhou Y, Hui RT, Gao RL, Qiang BQ (1999) Construction of human adult artery and heart cDNA libraries and cloning of novel full-length cDNAs. Chinese Circ. J. 14:369–371.

2. Lu XD, Liu YL, Zhao Y, Liu YQ, Liew CC (2000) Analysis of expressed sequence tags from a fetal heart cDNA library. Chinese Circ. J. 15:357–359.

3. Zhao Y, Ding JF. (2000) Searching for differentially expressed genes. Foreign Med. Sci.–Genetics. 23:76–80.

4. Zhao Y, Wei YJ, Cao HQ, Ding JF. (2001) Molecular cloning of NELIN, a putative human cytoskeleton regulation gene. Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sina. 33:19–24. PMID: 12053183

5. Cao HQ, Zhao Y, Meng XM, Ding JF. (2001) The killing effect of human pulmonary adenocarcinoma cells with TK+CD/5-Fc+GCV coexpression suicide gene systems. Acta Acad. Med. Sin. 23:168–172. PMID: 12905896

6. Zhao Y, Ding JF. (2002) ILK-The key kinase in the integrin signaling pathway. Foreign Med. Sci. – Mol. Biol. 23:366–369.

7. Zhao Y, Meng XM, Wei YJ, Zhao XW, Liu DQ, Cao HQ, Liew CC, Ding JF. (2003) Cloning and characterization of a novel cardiac-specific kinase that interacts specifically with cardiac troponin I. J Mol Med. 81:297–304. PMID: 12721663

8. Zhao Y, Samal E, Srivastava D. (2005) Serum response factor regulates a muscle-specific mircroRNA that targets Hand2 during cardiogenesis. Nature. 436: 214–220. PMID: 15951802

9. Zhao Y, Ransom JF, Li A, Vedantham V, von Drehle M, Muth AN, Tsuchihashi T, McManus MT, Schwartz RJ, Srivastava D. (2007) Dysregulation of cardiogenesis, cardiac conduction, and cell cycle in mice lacking miRNA-1-2. Cell. 129:303-17. PMID: 17397913

10. Zhao Y, Srivastava D. (2007) A developmental view of microRNA function. Trends Biol. Sci. 32:189-97. PMID: 17350266

11. Sun YT, Ge YJ, Drnevich J, Zhao Y, Band M, Chen J. (2010) Mammalian Target of Rapamycin regulates microRNA-1 and follistatin in skeletal myogenesis. J Cell Biol. 189:1157-69 PMID: 20566686

12. Wei Y, Peng S, Wu M, Sachidanandam R, Tu Z, Zhang S, Falce C, Sobie EA, Lebeche D, Zhao Y. Multifaceted roles of miR-1s in repressing the fetal gene program in the heart. Cell Res. 2014; 24:278-292 PMID: 24481529

13. Wu M, Peng S, Zhao Y. Inducible gene deletion in the entire cardiac conduction system using Hcn4-CreERT2 BAC transgenic mice. Genesis. 2014; 52: 134-140. PMID: 24281837

14. Josowitz R, Lu J, Falce C, D’Souza SL, Wu M, Cohen N, Dubois NC, Zhao Y, Sobie EA, Fishman GI, Gelb BD. Identification and purification of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived atrial-like cardiomyocytes based on sarcolipin expression. PloS one. 2014; 9(7). PMID: 25010565

15. Yang F, Zhou L, Wang Q, You X, Li Y, Zhao Y, Han X, Chang Z, He X, Cheng C, Wu C, Wang WJ, Hu FY, Zhao T, Li Y, Zhao M, Zheng GY, Dong J, Fan C, Yang J, Meng X, Zhang Y, Zhu X, Xiong J, Tian XL, Cao H. NEXN inhibits GATA4 and leads to atrial septal defects in mice and humans. Cardiovascular research. 2014; 103(2): 228-37 PMID: 24866383

16. Wu M, Peng S, Yang J, Tu Z, Cai X, Cai CL, Wang Z, Zhao Y. Baf250a orchestrates an epigenetic pathway to repress the Nkx2.5-directed contractile cardiomyocyte program in the sinoatrial node. Cell Res. 2014; 24(10):1201-13 PMID: 25145359

17. Agudo J, Ruzo A, Park ES, Sweeney R, Kana V, Wu M, Zhao Y, Egli D, Merad M, Brown BD. GFP-specific CD8 T cells enable targeted cell depletion and visualization of T-cell interactions. Nature Biotechnology. 2015;33(12):1287-1292

18. Yang J, Huang T, Petralia F, Long Q, Zhang B, Argmann C, Zhao Y, Mobbs CV; GTEx Consortium, Schadt EE, Zhu J, Tu Z. (2015). Multi-tissue synchronized aging in human and the link to complex diseases. Sci Rep. 5:15145.

19. Lee E, Ito K, Zhao Y, Schadt EE, Irie HY, Zhu J. (2016) Inferred miRNA activity identifies miRNA-mediated regulatory networks underlying multiple cancers. Bioinformatics. 32(1):96-105.

20. Sun X, Chuang JC, Kanchwala M, Wu L, Celen C, Li L, Liang H, Zhang S, Maples T,
Nguyen LH, Wang SC, Signer RA, Sorouri M, Nassour I, Liu X, Xu J, Wu M, Zhao Y,
Kuo YC, Wang Z, Xing C, Zhu H. Suppression of the SWI/SNF Component Arid1a Promotes Mammalian Regeneration. Cell Stem Cell. 2016; 18(4):456-66.

21. Long Q, Argmann C, Houten SM, Huang T, Peng S, Zhao Y, Tu Z; GTEx Consortium, Zhu J. (2016) Inter-tissue coexpression network analysis reveals DPP4 as an important gene in heart to blood communication. Genome Med. 8(1):15.