MicroRNA-driven developmental remodeling in the brain distinguishes humans from other primates

PLoS Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Somel, Mehmet ^a,b,f   Liu, Xiling ^a   Tang, Lin ^a   Yan, Zheng ^a   Hu, Haiyang ^a   Guo, Song ^a   Jiang, Xi ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyu ^a   Xu, Guohua ^a,b   Xie, Gangcai ^a,c   Li, Na ^d   Hu, Yuhui ^d   Chen, Wei ^d,e   Pääbo, Svante ^b   Khaitovich, Philipp ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 320B; MICRORNA 454; MICRORNA 92A; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NERVE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY; LIFESPAN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RNA SEQUENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGY; CYTOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; MACACA MULATTA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; PAN TROGLODYTES; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

MACACA; PAN; PRIMATES;

AGED; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MACACA MULATTA; MICRORNAS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PAN TROGLODYTES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TISSUE BANKS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855175650     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001214     Document Type: Article

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