Human-Specific Transcriptional Networks in the Brain

Neuron

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 601-617

  Konopka, Genevieve ^a,d   Friedrich, Tara ^a   Davis Turak, Jeremy ^a   Winden, Kellen ^a   Oldham, Michael C ^e   Gao, Fuying ^a   Chen, Leslie ^a   Wang, Guang Zhong ^d   Luo, Rui ^a   Preuss, Todd M ^c   Geschwind, Daniel H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP2; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN REGION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; CHIMPANZEE; CLOCK GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTIONARY DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; FOXP2 GENE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SPECIES COMPARISON;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CLOCK PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MACACA; MENTAL DISORDERS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PAN TROGLODYTES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84865374280     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.05.034     Document Type: Article

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