Human-specific genetics: new tools to explore the molecular and cellular basis of human evolution

AA Pollen, U Kilik, CB Lowe, JG Camp - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023‏ - nature.com
Our ancestors acquired morphological, cognitive and metabolic modifications that enabled
humans to colonize diverse habitats, develop extraordinary technologies and reshape the …

History, discovery, and classification of lncRNAs

J Jarroux, A Morillon, M Pinskaya - Long non coding RNA biology, 2017‏ - Springer
Abstract The RNA World Hypothesis suggests that prebiotic life revolved around RNA
instead of DNA and proteins. Although modern cells have changed significantly in 4 billion …

Molecular and cellular evolution of the primate dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

S Ma, M Skarica, Q Li, C Xu, RD Risgaard… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
The granular dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) is an evolutionary specialization of
primates that is centrally involved in cognition. We assessed more than 600,000 single …

[HTML][HTML] Rewiring of human neurodevelopmental gene regulatory programs by human accelerated regions

KM Girskis, AB Stergachis, EM DeGennaro, RN Doan… - Neuron, 2021‏ - cell.com
Human accelerated regions (HARs) are the fastest-evolving regions of the human genome,
and many are hypothesized to function as regulatory elements that drive human-specific …

Three-dimensional genome rewiring in loci with human accelerated regions

KC Keough, S Whalen, F Inoue, PF Przytycki, T Fair… - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Human accelerated regions (HARs) are conserved genomic loci that evolved at an
accelerated rate in the human lineage and may underlie human-specific traits. We …

Supervised machine learning for population genetics: a new paradigm

DR Schrider, AD Kern - Trends in Genetics, 2018‏ - cell.com
As population genomic datasets grow in size, researchers are faced with the daunting task
of making sense of a flood of information. To keep pace with this explosion of data …

Evolution of the human nervous system function, structure, and development

AMM Sousa, KA Meyer, G Santpere, FO Gulden… - Cell, 2017‏ - cell.com
The nervous system—in particular, the brain and its cognitive abilities—is among humans'
most distinctive and impressive attributes. How the nervous system has changed in the …

Evolution of central neural circuits: state of the art and perspectives

RJV Roberts, S Pop, LL Prieto-Godino - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022‏ - nature.com
The wide variety of animal behaviours that can be observed today arose through the
evolution of their underlying neural circuits. Advances in understanding the mechanisms …

Adaptive sequence divergence forged new neurodevelopmental enhancers in humans

RJ Mangan, FC Alsina, F Mosti, JE Sotelo-Fonseca… - Cell, 2022‏ - cell.com
Searches for the genetic underpinnings of uniquely human traits have focused on human-
specific divergence in conserved genomic regions, which reflects adaptive modifications of …

Chromatin accessibility dynamics in a model of human forebrain development

AE Trevino, N Sinnott-Armstrong, J Andersen, SJ Yoon… - Science, 2020‏ - science.org
INTRODUCTION The cerebral cortex is responsible for higher-order functions in the nervous
system and has undergone substantial expansion in size in primates. The development of …