Schizophrenia genomics: genetic complexity and functional insights

PF Sullivan, S Yao, J Hjerling-Leffler - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2024 - nature.com
Determining the causes of schizophrenia has been a notoriously intractable problem,
resistant to a multitude of investigative approaches over centuries. In recent decades …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated multimodal cell atlas of Alzheimer's disease

MI Gabitto, KJ Travaglini, VM Rachleff, ES Kaplan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia in older adults. Although AD
progression is characterized by stereotyped accumulation of proteinopathies, the affected …

The impact of DNA methylation on CTCF-mediated 3D genome organization

A Monteagudo-Sánchez, D Noordermeer… - Nature Structural & …, 2024 - nature.com
Cytosine DNA methylation is a highly conserved epigenetic mark in eukaryotes. Although
the role of DNA methylation at gene promoters and repetitive elements has been extensively …

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 …

Temporally distinct 3D multi-omic dynamics in the develo** human brain

MG Heffel, J Zhou, Y Zhang, DS Lee, K Hou… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The human hippocampus and prefrontal cortex play critical roles in learning and cognition,,
yet the dynamic molecular characteristics of their development remain enigmatic. Here we …

A comparative atlas of single-cell chromatin accessibility in the human brain

YE Li, S Preissl, M Miller, ND Johnson, Z Wang, H Jiao… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Recent advances in single-cell transcriptomics have illuminated the diverse neuronal and
glial cell types within the human brain. However, the regulatory programs governing cell …

Cell-type-specific effects of age and sex on human cortical neurons

JF Chien, H Liu, BA Wang, C Luo, A Bartlett… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
Altered transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of brain cell types may contribute to
cognitive changes with advanced age. Using single-nucleus multi-omic DNA methylation …

A family portrait of human brain cells

A Weninger, P Arlotta - Science, 2023 - science.org
The brain is composed of multiple regions associated with distinct functions, which have
become further specialized in the human lineage. To define how this specialization is …

Neuronal Circuit Evolution: From Development to Structure and Adaptive Significance

N Konstantinides, C Desplan - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Neuronal circuits represent the functional units of the brain. Understanding how the circuits
are generated to perform computations will help us understand how the brain functions …

[HTML][HTML] Emerging methods and applications in 3D genomics

S Pedrotti, I Castiglioni, C Perez-Estrada, L Zhao… - Current Opinion in Cell …, 2024 - Elsevier
Since the advent of Hi-C in 2009, a plethora of high-throughput sequencing methods have
emerged to profile the three-dimensional (3D) organization of eukaryotic genomes, igniting …