A single-cell molecular map of mouse gastrulation and early organogenesis

B Pijuan-Sala, JA Griffiths, C Guibentif, TW Hiscock… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Across the animal kingdom, gastrulation represents a key developmental event during which
embryonic pluripotent cells diversify into lineage-specific precursors that will generate the …

[HTML][HTML] Induction and specification of cranial placodes

G Schlosser - Developmental biology, 2006 - Elsevier
Cranial placodes are specialized regions of the ectoderm, which give rise to various sensory
ganglia and contribute to the pituitary gland and sensory organs of the vertebrate head …

Obesity-associated variants within FTO form long-range functional connections with IRX3

S Smemo, JJ Tena, KH Kim, ER Gamazon, NJ Sakabe… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have reproducibly associated variants within
introns of FTO with increased risk for obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D),,. Although the …

The Iroquois family of genes: from body building to neural patterning

F Cavodeassi, J Modolell, JL Gómez-Skarmeta - 2001 - journals.biologists.com
The Iroquois (Iro) family of genes are found in nematodes, insects and vertebrates. They
usually occur in one or two genomic clusters of three genes each and encode transcriptional …

Derivation and expansion using only small molecules of human neural progenitors for neurodegenerative disease modeling

P Reinhardt, M Glatza, K Hemmer, Y Tsytsyura… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Phenotypic drug discovery requires billions of cells for high-throughput screening (HTS)
campaigns. Because up to several million different small molecules will be tested in a single …

Brain-wide correspondence of neuronal epigenomics and distant projections

J Zhou, Z Zhang, M Wu, H Liu, Y Pang, A Bartlett… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Single-cell analyses parse the brain's billions of neurons into thousands of 'cell-type'clusters
residing in different brain structures. Many cell types mediate their functions through targeted …

Common schizophrenia risk variants are enriched in open chromatin regions of human glutamatergic neurons

ME Hauberg, J Creus-Muncunill, J Bendl… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The chromatin landscape of human brain cells encompasses key information to
understanding brain function. Here we use ATAC-seq to profile the chromatin structure in …

The forkhead transcription factor Foxf1 is required for differentiation of extra-embryonic and lateral plate mesoderm

M Mahlapuu, M Ormestad, S Enerbäck… - …, 2001 - journals.biologists.com
The murine Foxf1 gene encodes a forkhead transcription factor expressed in extra-
embryonic and lateral plate mesoderm and later in splanchnic mesenchyme surrounding the …

Identification and massively parallel characterization of regulatory elements driving neural induction

F Inoue, A Kreimer, T Ashuach, N Ahituv, N Yosef - Cell stem cell, 2019 - cell.com
Epigenomic regulation and lineage-specific gene expression act in concert to drive cellular
differentiation, but the temporal interplay between these processes is largely unknown …

Domain disruption and mutation of the bZIP transcription factor, MAF,associated with cataract, ocular anterior segment dysgenesis and coloboma

RV Jamieson, R Perveen, B Kerr… - Human molecular …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
Human congenital cataract and ocular anterior segment dysgenesis both demonstrate
extensive genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity. We identified a family where ocular …