Lars Forsberg
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology; Research programme: Molecular Tools and Functional Genomics; Research group Lars Forsberg
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 48 39
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 740 17 75
- E-mail:
- lars.forsberg@igp.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- BMC
Husargatan 3
751 22 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 815
751 08 Uppsala

Publications
Selection of publications
Loss of Y and clonal hematopoiesis in blood: two sides of the same coin?
Part of Leukemia, p. 889-891, 2022
- DOI for Loss of Y and clonal hematopoiesis in blood: two sides of the same coin?
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Hematopoietic loss of Y chromosome leads to cardiac fibrosis and heart failure mortality
Part of Science, p. 292-297, 2022
A polygenic risk score predicts mosaic loss of chromosome Y in circulating blood cells
Part of Cell & Bioscience, 2021
- DOI for A polygenic risk score predicts mosaic loss of chromosome Y in circulating blood cells
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Immune cells lacking Y chromosome show dysregulation of autosomal gene expression
Part of Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (CMLS), p. 4019-4033, 2021
- DOI for Immune cells lacking Y chromosome show dysregulation of autosomal gene expression
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Leukocytes with chromosome Y loss have reduced abundance of the cell surface immunoprotein CD99
Part of Scientific Reports, 2021
- DOI for Leukocytes with chromosome Y loss have reduced abundance of the cell surface immunoprotein CD99
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Part of European Journal of Human Genetics, p. 349-357, 2020
- DOI for Longitudinal changes in the frequency of mosaic chromosome Y loss in peripheral blood cells of aging men varies profoundly between individuals
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Genetic predisposition to mosaic Y chromosome loss in blood
Part of Nature, p. 652-657, 2019
Mosaic Loss of Chromosome Y in Blood Is Associated with Alzheimer Disease
Part of American Journal of Human Genetics, p. 1208-1219, 2016
- DOI for Mosaic Loss of Chromosome Y in Blood Is Associated with Alzheimer Disease
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Mutagenesis: smoking is associated with mosaic loss of chromosome Y
Part of Science, p. 81-83, 2015
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 624-628, 2014
Recent publications
Part of Science Translational Medicine, 2025
Part of Communications Medicine, 2025
- DOI for Mosaic loss of chromosome Y in blood is associated with male susceptibility for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
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Loss of chromosome Y in regulatory T cells
Part of BMC Genomics, 2024
- DOI for Loss of chromosome Y in regulatory T cells
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Loss of Y and clonal hematopoiesis in blood: two sides of the same coin?
Part of Leukemia, p. 889-891, 2022
- DOI for Loss of Y and clonal hematopoiesis in blood: two sides of the same coin?
- Download full text (pdf) of Loss of Y and clonal hematopoiesis in blood: two sides of the same coin?
Hematopoietic loss of Y chromosome leads to cardiac fibrosis and heart failure mortality
Part of Science, p. 292-297, 2022
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of Science Translational Medicine, 2025
Part of Communications Medicine, 2025
- DOI for Mosaic loss of chromosome Y in blood is associated with male susceptibility for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
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Loss of chromosome Y in regulatory T cells
Part of BMC Genomics, 2024
- DOI for Loss of chromosome Y in regulatory T cells
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Loss of Y and clonal hematopoiesis in blood: two sides of the same coin?
Part of Leukemia, p. 889-891, 2022
- DOI for Loss of Y and clonal hematopoiesis in blood: two sides of the same coin?
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Hematopoietic loss of Y chromosome leads to cardiac fibrosis and heart failure mortality
Part of Science, p. 292-297, 2022
Part of Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (CMLS), 2022
- DOI for Reply to Guo's commentary on: "Immune cells lacking Y chromosome show dysregulation of autosomal gene expression"
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A polygenic risk score predicts mosaic loss of chromosome Y in circulating blood cells
Part of Cell & Bioscience, 2021
- DOI for A polygenic risk score predicts mosaic loss of chromosome Y in circulating blood cells
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Chromosome Y loss and drivers of clonal hematopoiesis in myelodysplastic syndrome
Part of Haematologica, p. 329-331, 2021
- DOI for Chromosome Y loss and drivers of clonal hematopoiesis in myelodysplastic syndrome
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Part of European Journal of Human Genetics, p. 1323-1324, 2021
Immune cells lacking Y chromosome show dysregulation of autosomal gene expression
Part of Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences (CMLS), p. 4019-4033, 2021
- DOI for Immune cells lacking Y chromosome show dysregulation of autosomal gene expression
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Leukocytes with chromosome Y loss have reduced abundance of the cell surface immunoprotein CD99
Part of Scientific Reports, 2021
- DOI for Leukocytes with chromosome Y loss have reduced abundance of the cell surface immunoprotein CD99
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Part of European Journal of Human Genetics, p. 349-357, 2020
- DOI for Longitudinal changes in the frequency of mosaic chromosome Y loss in peripheral blood cells of aging men varies profoundly between individuals
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Mosaic loss of chromosome Y in leukocytes matters
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 4-7, 2019
Part of Leukemia, p. 1184-1194, 2019
Genetic predisposition to mosaic Y chromosome loss in blood
Part of Nature, p. 652-657, 2019
Part of European Journal of Human Genetics, p. 17-19, 2019
- DOI for Back to the drawing board: loss of chromosome Y (LOY) inleukocytes is associated with age-related macular degeneration
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Part of Journal of Sleep Research, 2018
- DOI for Self-reported sleep disturbances and prostate cancer morbidity and mortality in Swedish men: A longitudinal study over 40 years
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Loss of Chromosome Y in Leukocytes and Major Cardiovascular Events
Part of Circulation, 2017
A MUTYH germline mutation is associated with small intestinal neuroendocrine tumors
Part of Endocrine-Related Cancer, p. 427-443, 2017
- DOI for A MUTYH germline mutation is associated with small intestinal neuroendocrine tumors
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Mosaic Loss of Chromosome Y in Blood Is Associated with Alzheimer Disease
Part of American Journal of Human Genetics, p. 1208-1219, 2016
- DOI for Mosaic Loss of Chromosome Y in Blood Is Associated with Alzheimer Disease
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Part of Nature Communications, 2016
- DOI for Human serum-derived protein removes the need for coating in defined human pluripotent stem cell culture
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Biobanking multifocal breast carcinomas: sample adequacy with regard to histology and DNA content
Part of Histopathology, p. 411-421, 2016
Mutagenesis: smoking is associated with mosaic loss of chromosome Y
Part of Science, p. 81-83, 2015
Part of Journal of Medical Genetics, p. 599-606, 2015
Part of Leukemia, p. 2069-2074, 2015
Part of Human Mutation, p. 1088-1099, 2015
Part of Genome Research, p. 1521-1535, 2015
- DOI for Signatures of post-zygotic structural genetic aberrations in the cells of histologically normal breast tissue that can predispose to sporadic breast cancer
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Part of Leukemia, p. 1600-1602, 2015
Part of Nature Genetics, p. 624-628, 2014
Part of PLOS ONE, 2013
- DOI for Post-Zygotic and Inter-Individual Structural Genetic Variation in a Presumptive Enhancer Element of the Locus between the IL10Rβ and IFNAR1 Genes
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Age-related somatic structural changes in the nuclear genome of human blood cells
Part of American Journal of Human Genetics, p. 217-228, 2012
Part of American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part A, p. 2595-2598, 2010
Sperm competition between alternative reproductive tactics of the Atlantic salmon in vitro
Part of Aquaculture, p. 265-269, 2010
Part of Journal of Evolutionary Biology, p. 1859-1869, 2007
Articles, review/survey
Part of Human Genetics, p. 657-663, 2017
Mosaicism in health and disease — clones picking up speed
Part of Nature reviews genetics, p. 128-142, 2017
Part of Journal of Medical Genetics, p. 1-10, 2013
Part of Postgraduate medical journal, p. 417-426, 2013
- DOI for Non-heritable genetics of human disease: spotlight on post-zygotic genetic variation acquired during lifetime (Reprinted from vol 50, pg 1-10, 2013)
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