Functional organization of the transcriptome in human brain

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1271-1282

  Oldham, Michael C ^a,b   Konopka, Genevieve ^b   Iwamoto, Kazuya ^c   Langfelder, Peter ^b   Kato, Tadafumi ^c   Horvath, Steve ^b,d   Geschwind, Daniel H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROGLIA; NEURAL STEM CELL; OLIGODENDROGLIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYNAPSE;

BRAIN; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CEREBELLUM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS;

EID: 54949113578     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2207     Document Type: Article

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