Comprehensive transcriptome analysis of neocortical layers in humans, chimpanzees and macaques

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 886-895

  He, Zhisong ^a   Han, Dingding ^a,b   Efimova, Olga ^c   Guijarro, Patricia ^a   Yu, Qianhui ^a,d   Oleksiak, Anna ^a   Jiang, Shasha ^a   Anokhin, Konstantin ^e   Velichkovsky, Boris ^f   Grünewald, Stefan ^a   Khaitovich, Philipp ^c,f,g,h,i  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SKOLKOVO INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^f SHANGHAITECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^h IMMANUEL KANT BALTIC FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

ⁱ Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

AGED; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MACACA; MALE; NEOCORTEX; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; WHITE MATTER; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; METABOLISM; PAN TROGLODYTES; RHESUS MONKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MACACA MULATTA; NEOCORTEX; PAN TROGLODYTES; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85017510008     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.4548     Document Type: Article

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