Gene Expression in the Human Brain: The Current State of the Study of Specificity and Spatiotemporal Dynamics

Child Development

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 76-88

  Naumova, Oksana Yu ^a,b   Lee, Maria ^a   Rychkov, Sergei Yu ^b   Vlasova, Natalia V ^c   Grigorenko, Elena L ^a,d,e,f  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^c Medical Academy for Continuous Education   (Canada)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

AGING; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AGING; AUTOPSY; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84872942683     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12014     Document Type: Article

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