A multi-resource data integration approach: Identifcation of candidate genes regulating cell proliferation during neocortical development

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue 8 AUG, 2014, Pages

  Vied, Cynthia M ^a   Freudenberg, Florian ^b   Wang, Yuting ^c   Raposo, Alexandre A S F ^d   Feng, David ^e   Nowakowski, Richard S ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d INSTITUTO GULBENKIAN DE CIÊNCIA   (Portugal)

^e ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; GeneMANIA; Neocortex development; Subventricular zone (SVZ); The allen institute for brain science; Ventricular zone (VZ)

Indexed keywords

CDON PROTEIN; CELSR1 PROTEIN; DBI PROTEIN; EOMES PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP N2 PROTEIN; NEUROGENIN 2; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; PERICENTRIN; PROTEIN; SSRP1 PROTEIN; TEAD2 PROTEIN; TGIF2 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR E2F5; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL CYCLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NEOCORTEX; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PROTEOMICS; RNA SEQUENCE; SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE;

EID: 84906347195     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00257     Document Type: Article

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