ASPM is a major determinant of cerebral cortical size

Nature Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 316-320

  Bond, Jacquelyn ^a   Roberts, Emma ^a   Mochida, Ganesh H ^b,c   Hampshire, Daniel J ^a   Scott, Sheila ^a   Askham, Jonathan M ^a   Springell, Kelly ^a   Mahadevan, Meera ^a   Crow, Yanick J ^d   Markham, Alexander F ^a   Walsh, Christopher A ^b   Geoffrey Woods, C ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTIG; PROTEIN; PROTEIN ASPM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE DISORDER; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SIZE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CYTOKINESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; HAPLOTYPE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MICROCEPHALY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROBLAST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STEM CELL; STOP CODON;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CODON, NONSENSE; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MAMMALIA; MELANOGASTER; PRIMATES;

EID: 0036787796     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng995     Document Type: Article

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