Identification of vulnerable cell types in major brain disorders using single cell transcriptomes and expression weighted cell type enrichment

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue JAN, 2016, Pages

  Skene, Nathan G ^a   Grant, Seth G N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Anxiety; Autism; Genetics; RNA seq; Schizophrenia; Single cell genomics; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN DISEASE; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; DISEASE COURSE; EPILEPSY; EXPRESSION WEIGHTED CELL TYPE ENRICHMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; INTERNEURON; MICROGLIA; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

EID: 84958035723     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2016.00016     Document Type: Article

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