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 …

Cortical evolution: judge the brain by its cover

DH Geschwind, P Rakic - Neuron, 2013 - cell.com
To understand the emergence of human higher cognition, we must understand its biological
substrate—the cerebral cortex, which considers itself the crowning achievement of evolution …

Current advances in primate genomics: novel approaches for understanding evolution and disease

D Juan, G Santpere, JL Kelley, OE Cornejo… - Nature reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Primate genomics holds the key to understanding fundamental aspects of human evolution
and disease. However, genetic diversity and functional genomics data sets are currently …

Comparative primate genomics: emerging patterns of genome content and dynamics

J Rogers, RA Gibbs - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 - nature.com
Advances in genome sequencing technologies have created new opportunities for
comparative primate genomics. Genome assemblies have been published for various …

Metabolic methanol: molecular pathways and physiological roles

YL Dorokhov, AV Shindyapina… - Physiological …, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Methanol has been historically considered an exogenous product that leads only to
pathological changes in the human body when consumed. However, in normal, healthy …

Genome-wide parent-of-origin DNA methylation analysis reveals the intricacies of human imprinting and suggests a germline methylation-independent mechanism of …

C Tayama, V Romanelli, A Martin-Trujillo… - Genome …, 2014 - genome.cshlp.org
Differential methylation between the two alleles of a gene has been observed in imprinted
regions, where the methylation of one allele occurs on a parent-of-origin basis, the inactive …

Evolution of DNA methylation in the human brain

H Jeong, I Mendizabal, S Berto, P Chatterjee… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
DNA methylation is a critical regulatory mechanism implicated in development, learning,
memory, and disease in the human brain. Here we have elucidated DNA methylation …

Differences between human and chimpanzee genomes and their implications in gene expression, protein functions and biochemical properties of the two species

MV Suntsova, AA Buzdin - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Chimpanzees are the closest living relatives of humans. The divergence between human
and chimpanzee ancestors dates to approximately 6, 5–7, 5 million years ago. Genetic …

Human brain evolution: transcripts, metabolites and their regulators

M Somel, X Liu, P Khaitovich - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2013 - nature.com
What evolutionary events led to the emergence of human cognition? Although the genetic
differences separating modern humans from both non-human primates (for example …

Genetic–epigenetic interactions in cis: a major focus in the post-GWAS era

C Do, A Shearer, M Suzuki, MB Terry, J Gelernter… - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Studies on genetic–epigenetic interactions, including the map** of methylation
quantitative trait loci (mQTLs) and haplotype-dependent allele-specific DNA methylation …