Meta-analysis of gene coexpression networks in the post-mortem prefrontal cortex of patients with schizophrenia and unaffected controls

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Mistry, Meeta ^a   Gillis, Jesse ^b   Pavlidis, Paul ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Gene coexpression network; Microarray; Postmortem brain; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; AUTOPSY; CELL TYPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOWN REGULATION; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARKER GENE; MYELINATION; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; UPREGULATION;

AUTOPSY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84884556157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-14-105     Document Type: Article

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