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Neogenin-1 marks myeloid-primed fetal hematopoietic stem cells that undergo progressive lineage-restriction with age

Banuelos, A.; Baez, M.; Yilmaz, L.; Koren-Sedova, E.; Zukowska, M.; Burden, A. T.; Swartzrock-Willner, L.; Le, U.; Zhang, A.; Georgeos, N.; Ohene-Gambill, B.; Zheng, B.; Womack-Gambrel, N.; Honjol, R.; Sinha, R.; Weissman, I. L.

2026-09-03 developmental biology
10.64898/2026.09.01.747091 bioRxiv
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During aging, hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) increasingly shift from balanced to myeloid-biased differentiation, resulting in reduced lymphoid output and impaired adaptive immunity. The question of whether this lineage bias is established in a subset of HSCs during early development or primarily emerges with aging warrants further investigation. Here, we investigate whether myeloid-biased HSCs (my-HSCs) are established at the fetal liver stage by specifically examining Neogenin-1 (NEO1), a previously defined marker of my-HSCs. We identify two distinct populations of Hoxb5+ HSCs in the fetal liver: NEO1+ and NEO1-, with NEO1+ HSCs exhibiting transcriptional and functional characteristics consistent with my-HSCs. With age, my-HSC-associated transcriptional programs become increasingly reinforced across the Hoxb5+ pHSC compartment, with NEO1+ cells showing early enrichment of this program and both NEO1+ and NEO1- cells acquiring broader myeloid-biased features in aging. These findings suggest that lineage programming can begin early in development and is further shaped by age-related changes, potentially contributing to the functional decline observed in the aging hematopoietic system.

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