Human brain evolution: Insights from microarrays

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 850-860

  Preuss, Todd M ^a,b   Cáceres, Mario ^a,b   Oldham, Michael C ^c   Geschwind, Daniel H ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RNA;

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLY; ALBERS SCHOENBERG DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN; DNA MICROARRAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MYOPATHY; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHENOTYPE; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAY SACHS DISEASE; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; PAN (APE); PRIMATES;

EID: 7644239013     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1469     Document Type: Review

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