Co-expression Profiling of Autism Genes in the Mouse Brain

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Menashe, Idan ^a,b   Grange, Pascal ^c   Larsen, Eric C ^a   Banerjee Basu, Sharmila ^a   Mitra, Partha P ^c  

^a MindSpec Inc   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; DISEASES; GENE EXPRESSION; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MAMMALS;

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; BRAIN ATLAS DATABASE; BRAIN REGIONS; CO-EXPRESSION; CO-EXPRESSION NETWORKS; ENERGY; EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC MECHANISM; MOUSE BRAIN; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOUSE; NONHUMAN;

MUS;

EID: 84880774806     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003128     Document Type: Article

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