Profiling gene expression in the human dentate gyrus granule cell layer reveals insights into schizophrenia and its genetic risk

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue , 2020, Pages

  Jaffe, Andrew E ^a,b,c   Hoeppner, Daniel J ^a,d,e   Saito, Takeshi ^d   Blanpain, Lou ^a   Ukaigwe, Joy ^a   Burke, Emily E ^a   Collado Torres, Leonardo ^a   Tao, Ran ^a   Tajinda, Katsunori ^d   Maynard, Kristen R ^a   Tran, Matthew N ^a   Martinowich, Keri ^a,c   Deep Soboslay, Amy ^a   Shin, Joo Heon ^a   Kleinman, Joel E ^a,c   Weinberger, Daniel R ^a,c   Matsumoto, Mitsuyuki ^d,e   Hyde, Thomas M ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

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

^d Astellas Research Institute of America   (United States)

^e ASTELLAS PHARMA INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIPOLAR DISORDER; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TRANSCRIPTOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85082724924     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41593-020-0604-z     Document Type: Article

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