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 …

Genomic findings in schizophrenia and their implications

MJ Owen, SE Legge, E Rees, JTR Walters… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
There has been substantial progress in understanding the genetics of schizophrenia over
the past 15 years. This has revealed a highly polygenic condition with the majority of the …

Comparative transcriptomics reveals human-specific cortical features

NL Jorstad, JHT Song, D Exposito-Alonso, H Suresh… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The cognitive abilities of humans are distinctive among primates, but their molecular and
cellular substrates are poorly understood. We used comparative single-nucleus …

Multiplex profiling of developmental cis-regulatory elements with quantitative single-cell expression reporters

JB Lalanne, SG Regalado, S Domcke, D Calderon… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The inability to scalably and precisely measure the activity of developmental cis-regulatory
elements (CREs) in multicellular systems is a bottleneck in genomics. Here we develop a …

Feature selection for classification with Spearman's rank correlation coefficient-based self-information in divergence-based fuzzy rough sets

J Jiang, X Zhang, Z Yuan - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Feature selection facilitates uncertainty disposal and information mining, and it has received
widespread research interests. Divergence-based fuzzy rough sets (Div-FRSs), a new kind …

Shaping the brain: The emergence of cortical structure and folding

SK Akula, D Exposito-Alonso, CA Walsh - Developmental cell, 2023 - cell.com
The cerebral cortex—the brain's covering and largest region—has increased in size and
complexity in humans and supports higher cognitive functions such as language and …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic architecture of human brain evolution

T Fair, AA Pollen - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Comparative studies of hominids have long sought to identify mutational events that shaped
the evolution of the human nervous system. However, functional genetic differences are …

An evolutionary perspective on complex neuropsychiatric disease

JM McClellan, AW Zoghbi, JD Buxbaum, C Cappi… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
The forces of evolution—mutation, selection, migration, and genetic drift—shape the genetic
architecture of human traits, including the genetic architecture of complex neuropsychiatric …

The growth factor EPIREGULIN promotes basal progenitor cell proliferation in the developing neocortex

P Cubillos, N Ditzer, A Kolodziejczyk… - The EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
Neocortex expansion during evolution is linked to higher numbers of neurons, which are
thought to result from increased proliferative capacity and neurogenic potential of basal …

A single-cell multi-omic atlas spanning the adult rhesus macaque brain

KL Chiou, X Huang, MO Bohlen, S Tremblay… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Cataloging the diverse cellular architecture of the primate brain is crucial for understanding
cognition, behavior, and disease in humans. Here, we generated a brain-wide single-cell …