Regional Heterogeneity in Gene Expression, Regulation, and Coherence in the Frontal Cortex and Hippocampus across Development and Schizophrenia

Neuron

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 203-216.e8

  Collado Torres, Leonardo ^a,b   Burke, Emily E ^a   Peterson, Amy ^a,c   Shin, JooHeon ^a   Straub, Richard E ^a   Rajpurohit, Anandita ^a   Semick, Stephen A ^a   Ulrich, William S ^a   Price, Amanda J ^a,d   Valencia, Cristian ^a,c   Tao, Ran ^a   Deep Soboslay, Amy ^a   Hyde, Thomas M ^a,d   Kleinman, Joel E ^a,d   Weinberger, Daniel R ^a,d   Jaffe, Andrew E ^a,b,c,d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

brain; development; eQTL; human; regional coherence; RNA seq; schizophrenia; TWAS

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC RISK; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; AGED; EMBRYOLOGY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCHIZOPHRENIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85068785600     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: 10974199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.05.013     Document Type: Article

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