The jewels of our genome: The search for the genomic changes underlying the evolutionarily unique capacities of the human brain

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 646-655

  Sikela, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; RHO GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SMAD1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP2; UBIQUITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL ADHESION; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 19; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EVOLUTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOMICS; HUMAN; LIPID METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; HISTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVE CELL; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PRIMATE;

PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; NEURONS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PRIMATES;

EID: 33646926418     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0020080     Document Type: Review

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