Bridging the gap between connectome and transcriptome

A Fornito, A Arnatkevičiūtė, BD Fulcher - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019 - cell.com
The recent construction of brain-wide gene expression atlases, which measure the
transcriptional activity of thousands of genes in multiple anatomical locations, has made it …

[HTML][HTML] Where the genome meets the connectome: understanding how genes shape human brain connectivity

A Arnatkeviciute, BD Fulcher, MA Bellgrove, A Fornito - Neuroimage, 2021 - Elsevier
The integration of modern neuroimaging methods with genetically informative designs and
data can shed light on the molecular mechanisms underlying the structural and functional …

A transcriptional signature of hub connectivity in the mouse connectome

BD Fulcher, A Fornito - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Connectivity is not distributed evenly throughout the brain. Instead, it is concentrated on a
small number of highly connected neural elements that act as network hubs. Across different …

Gene transcription profiles associated with inter-modular hubs and connection distance in human functional magnetic resonance imaging networks

PE Vértes, T Rittman, KJ Whitaker… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Human functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain networks have a complex
topology comprising integrative components, eg long-distance inter-modular edges, that are …

Overcoming false-positive gene-category enrichment in the analysis of spatially resolved transcriptomic brain atlas data

BD Fulcher, A Arnatkeviciute, A Fornito - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Transcriptomic atlases have improved our understanding of the correlations between gene-
expression patterns and spatially varying properties of brain structure and function. Gene …

Differential gene expression between callosal and ipsilateral projection neurons in the monkey dorsolateral prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices

D Arion, JF Enwright, G Gonzalez-Burgos… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Reciprocal connections between primate dorsolateral prefrontal (DLPFC) and posterior
parietal (PPC) cortices, furnished by subsets of layer 3 pyramidal neurons (PNs), contribute …

[HTML][HTML] Uncovering the transcriptional correlates of hub connectivity in neural networks

A Arnatkevičiūtė, BD Fulcher, A Fornito - Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Connections in nervous systems are disproportionately concentrated on a small subset of
neural elements that act as network hubs. Hubs have been found across different of species …

Overcoming bias in gene-set enrichment analyses of brain-wide transcriptomic data

BD Fulcher, A Arnatkevic̆iūtė, A Fornito - Biorxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
The recent availability of whole-brain atlases of gene expression, which quantify the
transcriptional activity of thousands of genes across many different brain regions, has …

Exploiting gene expression profiles for the automated prediction of connectivity between brain regions

I Roberti, M Lovino, S Di Cataldo, E Ficarra… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The brain comprises a complex system of neurons interconnected by an intricate network of
anatomical links. While recent studies demonstrated the correlation between anatomical …

Neuronal activities in the mouse visual cortex predict patterns of sensory stimuli

L Cai, B Wu, S Ji - Neuroinformatics, 2018 - Springer
Visual cortex forms the basis of visual processing and plays important roles in visual
encoding. By using the recently published Allen Brain Observatory dataset consisting of …