MCPH1: A window into brain development and evolution

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Pulvers, Jeremy N ^a   Journiac, Nathalie ^b,c   Arai, Yoko ^d   Nardelli, Jeannette ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

Brain development; Brain evolution; Human; MCPH1; Microcephaly; Mouse models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; DNA REPAIR; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; MICROCEPHALY; NEURAL STEM CELL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MICROARRAY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 84939815303     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00092     Document Type: Article

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