Developmental mechanisms underlying the evolution of human cortical circuits

P Vanderhaeghen, F Polleux - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
The brain of modern humans has evolved remarkable computational abilities that enable
higher cognitive functions. These capacities are tightly linked to an increase in the size and …

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 …

An atlas of the protein-coding genes in the human, pig, and mouse brain

E Sjöstedt, W Zhong, L Fagerberg, M Karlsson… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The brain is the most complex organ of the mammalian body, boasting a
diverse physiology combined with intricate cellular organization. In an effort to expand our …

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 …

Discovery of 42 genome-wide significant loci associated with dyslexia

C Doust, P Fontanillas, E Eising, SD Gordon, Z Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Reading and writing are crucial life skills but roughly one in ten children are affected by
dyslexia, which can persist into adulthood. Family studies of dyslexia suggest heritability up …

Genome-wide analyses of individual differences in quantitatively assessed reading-and language-related skills in up to 34,000 people

E Eising, N Mirza-Schreiber… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The use of spoken and written language is a fundamental human capacity. Individual
differences in reading-and language-related skills are influenced by genetic variation, with …

Spatiotemporal transcriptomic divergence across human and macaque brain development

Y Zhu, AMM Sousa, T Gao, M Skarica, M Li, G Santpere… - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Improved understanding of how the develo** human nervous system
differs from that of closely related nonhuman primates is fundamental for teasing out human …

Dysregulation of the epigenetic landscape of normal aging in Alzheimer's disease

R Nativio, G Donahue, A Berson, Y Lan… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Aging is the strongest risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), although the underlying
mechanisms remain unclear. The chromatin state, in particular through the mark H4K16ac …

Association of OPRM1 functional coding variant with opioid use disorder: a genome-wide association study

H Zhou, CT Rentsch, Z Cheng, RL Kember… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance With the current opioid crisis, it is important to improve understanding of the
biological mechanisms of opioid use disorder (OUD). Objectives To detect genetic risk …

The genetic architecture and evolution of the human skeletal form

E Kun, EM Javan, O Smith, F Gulamali, J de la Fuente… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The human skeletal form underlies bipedalism, but the genetic basis of skeletal proportions
(SPs) is not well characterized. We applied deep-learning models to 31,221 x-rays from the …