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2023

Molecular and cellular mechanisms of human cortical connectivity.Luria V, Ma S, Shibata M, Pattabiraman K, Sestan N. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2023 Jun; 2023 Mar 13. PMID: 36921362.
A neural stem cell paradigm of pediatric hydrocephalus.Duy PQ, Rakic P, Alper SL, Robert SM, Kundishora AJ, Butler WE, Walsh CA, Sestan N, Geschwind DH, Jin SC, Kahle KT. Cereb Cortex. 2023 Apr 4. PMID: 36097331.
A novel SMARCC1 -mutant BAFopathy implicates epigenetic dysregulation of neural progenitors in hydrocephalus.Singh AK, Viviano S, Allington G, McGee S, Kiziltug E, Mekbib KY, Shohfi JP, Duy PQ, DeSpenza T, Furey CG, Reeves BC, Smith H, Ma S, Sousa AMM, Cherskov A, Allocco A, Nelson-Williams C, Haider S, Rizvi SRA, Alper SL, Sestan N, Shimelis H, Walsh LK, Lifton RP, Moreno-De-Luca A, Jin SC, Kruszka P, Deniz E, Kahle KT. medRxiv. 2023 Mar 20; 2023 Mar 20. PMID: 36993720.
Cross-ancestry, cell-type-informed atlas of gene, isoform, and splicing regulation in the developing human brain.Wen C, Margolis M, Dai R, Zhang P, Przytycki PF, Vo DD, Bhattacharya A, Kim M, Matoba N, Tsai E, Hoh C, Jiao C, Aygun N, Walker RL, Chatzinakos C, Clarke D, Pratt H, Peters MA, Gerstein M, Daskalakis NP, Weng Z, Jaffe AE, Kleinman JE, Hyde TM, Weinberger DR, Bray NJ, Sestan N, Geschwind DH, Roeder K, Gusev A, Pasaniuc B, Stein JL, Love MI, Pollard KS, Liu C, Gandal MJ. medRxiv. 2023 Mar 6; 2023 Mar 6. PMID: 36945630.
Human-specific features and developmental dynamics of the brain N-glycome.Klarić TS, Gudelj I, Santpere G, Sousa AMM, Novokmet M, Vučković F, Ma S, Bečeheli I, Sherwood CC, Ely JJ, Hof PR, Josić D, Lauc G, Sestan N. bioRxiv. 2023 Jan 11; 2023 Jan 11. PMID: 36711977.

2022

Spatiotemporal and genetic regulation of A-to-I editing throughout human brain development.Cuddleston WH, Fan X, Sloofman L, Liang L, Mossotto E, Moore K, Zipkowitz S, Wang M, Zhang B, Wang J, Sestan N, Devlin B, Roeder K, Sanders SJ, Buxbaum JD, Breen MS. Cell Rep. 2022 Nov 1. PMID: 36323256.
Developmental dynamics of RNA translation in the human brain.Duffy EE, Finander B, Choi G, Carter AC, Pritisanac I, Alam A, Luria V, Karger A, Phu W, Sherman MA, Assad EG, Pajarillo N, Khitun A, Crouch EE, Ganesh S, Chen J, Berger B, Sestan N, O'Donnell-Luria A, Huang EJ, Griffith EC, Forman-Kay JD, Moses AM, Kalish BT, Greenberg ME. Nat Neurosci. 2022 Oct; 2022 Sep 28. PMID: 36171426.
AgRP neurons control structure and function of the medial prefrontal cortex.Stutz B, Waterson MJ, Šestan-Peša M, Dietrich MO, Škarica M, Sestan N, Racz B, Magyar A, Sotonyi P, Liu ZW, Gao XB, Matyas F, Stoiljkovic M, Horvath TL. Mol Psychiatry. 2022 Oct; 2022 Jul 29. PMID: 35906488.
Molecular and cellular evolution of the primate dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.Ma S, Skarica M, Li Q, Xu C, Risgaard RD, Tebbenkamp ATN, Mato-Blanco X, Kovner R, Krsnik Ž, de Martin X, Luria V, Martí-Pérez X, Liang D, Karger A, Schmidt DK, Gomez-Sanchez Z, Qi C, Gobeske KT, Pochareddy S, Debnath A, Hottman CJ, Spurrier J, Teo L, Boghdadi AG, Homman-Ludiye J, Ely JJ, Daadi EW, Mi D, Daadi M, Marín O, Hof PR, Rasin MR, Bourne J, Sherwood CC, Santpere G, Girgenti MJ, Strittmatter SM, Sousa AMM, Sestan N. Science. 2022 Sep 30; 2022 Sep 30. PMID: 36007006.
Cellular recovery after prolonged warm ischaemia of the whole body.Andrijevic D, Vrselja Z, Lysyy T, Zhang S, Skarica M, Spajic A, Dellal D, Thorn SL, Duckrow RB, Ma S, Duy PQ, Isiktas AU, Liang D, Li M, Kim SK, Daniele SG, Banu K, Perincheri S, Menon MC, Huttner A, Sheth KN, Gobeske KT, Tietjen GT, Zaveri HP, Latham SR, Sinusas AJ, Sestan N. Nature. 2022 Aug; 2022 Aug 3. PMID: 35922506.
Impaired neurogenesis alters brain biomechanics in a neuroprogenitor-based genetic subtype of congenital hydrocephalus.Duy PQ, Weise SC, Marini C, Li XJ, Liang D, Dahl PJ, Ma S, Spajic A, Dong W, Juusola J, Kiziltug E, Kundishora AJ, Koundal S, Pedram MZ, Torres-Fernández LA, Händler K, De Domenico E, Becker M, Ulas T, Juranek SA, Cuevas E, Hao LT, Jux B, Sousa AMM, Liu F, Kim SK, Li M, Yang Y, Takeo Y, Duque A, Nelson-Williams C, Ha Y, Selvaganesan K, Robert SM, Singh AK, Allington G, Furey CG, Timberlake AT, Reeves BC, Smith H, Dunbar A, DeSpenza T Jr, Goto J, Marlier A, Moreno-De-Luca A, Yu X, Butler WE, Carter BS, Lake EMR, Constable RT, Rakic P, Lin H, Deniz E, Benveniste H, Malvankar NS, Estrada-Veras JI, Walsh CA, Alper SL, Schultze JL, Paeschke K, Doetzlhofer A, Wulczyn FG, Jin SC, Lifton RP, Sestan N, Kolanus W, Kahle KT. Nat Neurosci. 2022 Apr; 2022 Apr 4. PMID: 35379995.
Transcriptomic taxonomy and neurogenic trajectories of adult human, macaque, and pig hippocampal and entorhinal cells.Franjic D, Skarica M, Ma S, Arellano JI, Tebbenkamp ATN, Choi J, Xu C, Li Q, Morozov YM, Andrijevic D, Vrselja Z, Spajic A, Santpere G, Li M, Zhang S, Liu Y, Spurrier J, Zhang L, Gudelj I, Rapan L, Takahashi H, Huttner A, Fan R, Strittmatter SM, Sousa AMM, Rakic P, Sestan N. Neuron. 2022 Feb 2; 2021 Nov 18. PMID: 34798047.
Brain ventricles as windows into brain development and disease.Duy PQ, Rakic P, Alper SL, Butler WE, Walsh CA, Sestan N, Geschwind DH, Jin SC, Kahle KT. Neuron. 2022 Jan 5. PMID: 34990576.

2021

Correction: Disruption of NEUROD2 causes a neurodevelopmental syndrome with autistic features via cell-autonomous defects in forebrain glutamatergic neurons.Runge K, Mathieu R, Bugeon S, Lafi S, Beurrier C, Sahu S, Schaller F, Loubat A, Herault L, Gaillard S, Pallesi-Pocachard E, Montheil A, Bosio A, Rosenfeld JA, Hudson E, Lindstrom K, Mercimek-Andrews S, Jeffries L, van Haeringen A, Vanakker O, Van Hecke A, Amrom D, Küry S, Ratner C, Jethva R, Gamble C, Jacq B, Fasano L, Santpere G, Lorente-Galdos B, Sestan N, Gelot A, Giacuzz S, Goebbels S, Represa A, Cardoso C, Cremer H, de Chevigny A. Mol Psychiatry. 2021 Dec. PMID: 34282265.
NogoA-expressing astrocytes limit peripheral macrophage infiltration after ischemic brain injury in primates.Boghdadi AG, Spurrier J, Teo L, Li M, Skarica M, Cao B, Kwan WC, Merson TD, Nilsson SK, Sestan N, Strittmatter SM, Bourne JA. Nat Commun. 2021 Nov 25; 2021 Nov 25. PMID: 34824275.
Disruption of NEUROD2 causes a neurodevelopmental syndrome with autistic features via cell-autonomous defects in forebrain glutamatergic neurons.Runge K, Mathieu R, Bugeon S, Lafi S, Beurrier C, Sahu S, Schaller F, Loubat A, Herault L, Gaillard S, Pallesi-Pocachard E, Montheil A, Bosio A, Rosenfeld JA, Hudson E, Lindstrom K, Mercimek-Andrews S, Jeffries L, van Haeringen A, Vanakker O, Van Hecke A, Amrom D, Küry S, Ratner C, Jethva R, Gamble C, Jacq B, Fasano L, Santpere G, Lorente-Galdos B, Sestan N, Gelot A, Giacuzz S, Goebbels S, Represa A, Cardoso C, Cremer H, de Chevigny A. Mol Psychiatry. 2021 Nov; 2021 Jun 29. PMID: 34188164.
Rewiring of human neurodevelopmental gene regulatory programs by human accelerated regions.Girskis KM, Stergachis AB, DeGennaro EM, Doan RN, Qian X, Johnson MB, Wang PP, Sejourne GM, Nagy MA, Pollina EA, Sousa AMM, Shin T, Kenny CJ, Scotellaro JL, Debo BM, Gonzalez DM, Rento LM, Yeh RC, Song JHT, Beaudin M, Fan J, Kharchenko PV, Sestan N, Greenberg ME, Walsh CA. Neuron. 2021 Oct 20; 2021 Sep 2. PMID: 34478631.
Hominini-specific regulation of CBLN2 increases prefrontal spinogenesis.Shibata M, Pattabiraman K, Muchnik SK, Kaur N, Morozov YM, Cheng X, Waxman SG, Sestan N. Nature. 2021 Oct; 2021 Oct 1. PMID: 34599306.
Regulation of prefrontal patterning and connectivity by retinoic acid.Shibata M, Pattabiraman K, Lorente-Galdos B, Andrijevic D, Kim SK, Kaur N, Muchnik SK, Xing X, Santpere G, Sousa AMM, Sestan N. Nature. 2021 Oct; 2021 Oct 1. PMID: 34599305.
Brain vulnerability and viability after ischaemia.Daniele SG, Trummer G, Hossmann KA, Vrselja Z, Benk C, Gobeske KT, Damjanovic D, Andrijevic D, Pooth JS, Dellal D, Beyersdorf F, Sestan N. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2021 Sep; 2021 Jul 21. PMID: 34290397.
Developmental dynamics of voltage-gated sodium channel isoform expression in the human and mouse brain.Liang L, Fazel Darbandi S, Pochareddy S, Gulden FO, Gilson MC, Sheppard BK, Sahagun A, An JY, Werling DM, Rubenstein JLR, Sestan N, Bender KJ, Sanders SJ. Genome Med. 2021 Aug 23; 2021 Aug 23. PMID: 34425903.
Molecular topography of an entire nervous system.Taylor SR, Santpere G, Weinreb A, Barrett A, Reilly MB, Xu C, Varol E, Oikonomou P, Glenwinkel L, McWhirter R, Poff A, Basavaraju M, Rafi I, Yemini E, Cook SJ, Abrams A, Vidal B, Cros C, Tavazoie S, Sestan N, Hammarlund M, Hobert O, Miller DM 3rd. Cell. 2021 Aug 5; 2021 Jul 7. PMID: 34237253.
Spatial and cell type transcriptional landscape of human cerebellar development.Aldinger KA, Thomson Z, Phelps IG, Haldipur P, Deng M, Timms AE, Hirano M, Santpere G, Roco C, Rosenberg AB, Lorente-Galdos B, Gulden FO, O'Day D, Overman LM, Lisgo SN, Alexandre P, Sestan N, Doherty D, Dobyns WB, Seelig G, Glass IA, Millen KJ. Nat Neurosci. 2021 Aug; 2021 Jun 17. PMID: 34140698.
Neuronal and glial 3D chromatin architecture informs the cellular etiology of brain disorders.Hu B, Won H, Mah W, Park RB, Kassim B, Spiess K, Kozlenkov A, Crowley CA, Pochareddy S, Li Y, Dracheva S, Sestan N, Akbarian S, Geschwind DH. Nat Commun. 2021 Jun 25; 2021 Jun 25. PMID: 34172755.
In silico analysis of the transcriptional regulatory logic of neuronal identity specification throughout the C. elegans nervous system.Glenwinkel L, Taylor SR, Langebeck-Jensen K, Pereira L, Reilly MB, Basavaraju M, Rafi I, Yemini E, Pocock R, Sestan N, Hammarlund M, Miller DM 3rd, Hobert O. Elife. 2021 Jun 24; 2021 Jun 24. PMID: 34165430.
Transcriptional repression by FEZF2 restricts alternative identities of cortical projection neurons.Tsyporin J, Tastad D, Ma X, Nehme A, Finn T, Huebner L, Liu G, Gallardo D, Makhamreh A, Roberts JM, Katzman S, Sestan N, McConnell SK, Yang Z, Qiu S, Chen B. Cell Rep. 2021 Jun 22. PMID: 34161768.
A screen of brain organoids to study neurodevelopmental disease.Cherskov A, Sestan N. Nature. 2021 Jan. PMID: 33361778.

2020

The evolution of the human brain and disease susceptibility.Pattabiraman K, Muchnik SK, Sestan N. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2020 Dec; 2020 Jul 3. PMID: 32629339.
Transcriptional priming as a conserved mechanism of lineage diversification in the developing mouse and human neocortex.Li Z, Tyler WA, Zeldich E, Santpere Baró G, Okamoto M, Gao T, Li M, Sestan N, Haydar TF. Sci Adv. 2020 Nov; 2020 Nov 6. PMID: 33158872.
Exome sequencing implicates genetic disruption of prenatal neuro-gliogenesis in sporadic congenital hydrocephalus.Jin SC, Dong W, Kundishora AJ, Panchagnula S, Moreno-De-Luca A, Furey CG, Allocco AA, Walker RL, Nelson-Williams C, Smith H, Dunbar A, Conine S, Lu Q, Zeng X, Sierant MC, Knight JR, Sullivan W, Duy PQ, DeSpenza T, Reeves BC, Karimy JK, Marlier A, Castaldi C, Tikhonova IR, Li B, Peña HP, Broach JR, Kabachelor EM, Ssenyonga P, Hehnly C, Ge L, Keren B, Timberlake AT, Goto J, Mangano FT, Johnston JM, Butler WE, Warf BC, Smith ER, Schiff SJ, Limbrick DD Jr, Heuer G, Jackson EM, Iskandar BJ, Mane S, Haider S, Guclu B, Bayri Y, Sahin Y, Duncan CC, Apuzzo MLJ, DiLuna ML, Hoffman EJ, Sestan N, Ment LR, Alper SL, Bilguvar K, Geschwind DH, Günel M, Lifton RP, Kahle KT. Nat Med. 2020 Nov; 2020 Oct 19. PMID: 33077954.
Neural Stem Cells Direct Axon Guidance via Their Radial Fiber Scaffold.Kaur N, Han W, Li Z, Madrigal MP, Shim S, Pochareddy S, Gulden FO, Li M, Xu X, Xing X, Takeo Y, Li Z, Lu K, Imamura Kawasawa Y, Ballester-Lurbe B, Moreno-Bravo JA, Chédotal A, Terrado J, Pérez-Roger I, Koleske AJ, Sestan N. Neuron. 2020 Sep 23; 2020 Jul 23. PMID: 32707082.
Global and Regional Development of the Human Cerebral Cortex: Molecular Architecture and Occupational Aptitudes.Shin J, Ma S, Hofer E, Patel Y, Vosberg DE, Tilley S, Roshchupkin GV, Sousa AMM, Jian X, Gottesman R, Mosley TH, Fornage M, Saba Y, Pirpamer L, Schmidt R, Schmidt H, Carrion-Castillo A, Crivello F, Mazoyer B, Bis JC, Li S, Yang Q, Luciano M, Karama S, Lewis L, Bastin ME, Harris MA, Wardlaw JM, Deary IE, Scholz M, Loeffler M, Witte AV, Beyer F, Villringer A, Armstrong NJ, Mather KA, Ames D, Jiang J, Kwok JB, Schofield PR, Thalamuthu A, Trollor JN, Wright MJ, Brodaty H, Wen W, Sachdev PS, Terzikhan N, Evans TE, Adams HHHH, Ikram MA, Frenzel S, Auwera-Palitschka SV, Wittfeld K, Bülow R, Grabe HJ, Tzourio C, Mishra A, Maingault S, Debette S, Gillespie NA, Franz CE, Kremen WS, Ding L, Jahanshad N, Sestan N, Pausova Z, Seshadri S, Paus T. Cereb Cortex. 2020 Jun 1. PMID: 32198502.
Variation of Human Neural Stem Cells Generating Organizer States In Vitro before Committing to Cortical Excitatory or Inhibitory Neuronal Fates.Micali N, Kim SK, Diaz-Bustamante M, Stein-O'Brien G, Seo S, Shin JH, Rash BG, Ma S, Wang Y, Olivares NA, Arellano JI, Maynard KR, Fertig EJ, Cross AJ, Bürli RW, Brandon NJ, Weinberger DR, Chenoweth JG, Hoeppner DJ, Sestan N, Rakic P, Colantuoni C, McKay RD. Cell Rep. 2020 May 5. PMID: 32375049.
Whole-Genome and RNA Sequencing Reveal Variation and Transcriptomic Coordination in the Developing Human Prefrontal Cortex.Werling DM, Pochareddy S, Choi J, An JY, Sheppard B, Peng M, Li Z, Dastmalchi C, Santpere G, Sousa AMM, Tebbenkamp ATN, Kaur N, Gulden FO, Breen MS, Liang L, Gilson MC, Zhao X, Dong S, Klei L, Cicek AE, Buxbaum JD, Adle-Biassette H, Thomas JL, Aldinger KA, O'Day DR, Glass IA, Zaitlen NA, Talkowski ME, Roeder K, State MW, Devlin B, Sanders SJ, Sestan N. Cell Rep. 2020 Apr 7. PMID: 32268104.
Cux2 expression regulated by Lhx2 in the upper layer neurons of the developing cortex.Yang H, Kim J, Kim Y, Jang SW, Sestan N, Shim S. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2020 Jan 22; 2019 Nov 8. PMID: 31708105.

2019

Modeling the Evolution of Human Brain Development Using Organoids.Muchnik SK, Lorente-Galdos B, Santpere G, Sestan N. Cell. 2019 Nov 27. PMID: 31778651.
New insights into the development of the human cerebral cortex.Molnár Z, Clowry GJ, Šestan N, Alzu'bi A, Bakken T, Hevner RF, Hüppi PS, Kostović I, Rakic P, Anton ES, Edwards D, Garcez P, Hoerder-Suabedissen A, Kriegstein A. J Anat. 2019 Sep; 2019 Aug 2. PMID: 31373394.
Shared and derived features of cellular diversity in the human cerebral cortex.Miller DJ, Bhaduri A, Sestan N, Kriegstein A. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2019 Jun; 2019 Jan 21. PMID: 30677551.
Dynamic and Cell-Specific DACH1 Expression in Human Neocortical and Striatal Development.Castiglioni V, Faedo A, Onorati M, Bocchi VD, Li Z, Iennaco R, Vuono R, Bulfamante GP, Muzio L, Martino G, Sestan N, Barker RA, Cattaneo E. Cereb Cortex. 2019 May 1. PMID: 29688344.
Restoration of brain circulation and cellular functions hours post-mortem.Vrselja Z, Daniele SG, Silbereis J, Talpo F, Morozov YM, Sousa AMM, Tanaka BS, Skarica M, Pletikos M, Kaur N, Zhuang ZW, Liu Z, Alkawadri R, Sinusas AJ, Latham SR, Waxman SG, Sestan N. Nature. 2019 Apr; 2019 Apr 17. PMID: 30996318.

2018

The DGCR5 long noncoding RNA may regulate expression of several schizophrenia-related genes.Meng Q, Wang K, Brunetti T, Xia Y, Jiao C, Dai R, Fitzgerald D, Thomas A, Jay L, Eckart H, Grennan K, Imamura-Kawasawa Y, Li M, Sestan N, White KP, Chen C, Liu C. Sci Transl Med. 2018 Dec 19; 2018 Dec 13. PMID: 30545965.
Comprehensive functional genomic resource and integrative model for the human brain.Wang D, Liu S, Warrell J, Won H, Shi X, Navarro FCP, Clarke D, Gu M, Emani P, Yang YT, Xu M, Gandal MJ, Lou S, Zhang J, Park JJ, Yan C, Rhie SK, Manakongtreecheep K, Zhou H, Nathan A, Peters M, Mattei E, Fitzgerald D, Brunetti T, Moore J, Jiang Y, Girdhar K, Hoffman GE, Kalayci S, Gümüş ZH, Crawford GE, Roussos P, Akbarian S, Jaffe AE, White KP, Weng Z, Sestan N, Geschwind DH, Knowles JA, Gerstein MB. Science. 2018 Dec 14. PMID: 30545857.
Spatiotemporal transcriptomic divergence across human and macaque brain development.Zhu Y, Sousa AMM, Gao T, Skarica M, Li M, Santpere G, Esteller-Cucala P, Juan D, Ferrández-Peral L, Gulden FO, Yang M, Miller DJ, Marques-Bonet T, Imamura Kawasawa Y, Zhao H, Sestan N. Science. 2018 Dec 14; 2018 Dec 13. PMID: 30545855.
Integrative functional genomic analysis of human brain development and neuropsychiatric risks.Li M, Santpere G, Imamura Kawasawa Y, Evgrafov OV, Gulden FO, Pochareddy S, Sunkin SM, Li Z, Shin Y, Zhu Y, Sousa AMM, Werling DM, Kitchen RR, Kang HJ, Pletikos M, Choi J, Muchnik S, Xu X, Wang D, Lorente-Galdos B, Liu S, Giusti-Rodríguez P, Won H, de Leeuw CA, Pardiñas AF, Hu M, Jin F, Li Y, Owen MJ, O'Donovan MC, Walters JTR, Posthuma D, Reimers MA, Levitt P, Weinberger DR, Hyde TM, Kleinman JE, Geschwind DH, Hawrylycz MJ, State MW, Sanders SJ, Sullivan PF, Gerstein MB, Lein ES, Knowles JA, Sestan N. Science. 2018 Dec 14. PMID: 30545854.
Transcriptome and epigenome landscape of human cortical development modeled in organoids.Amiri A, Coppola G, Scuderi S, Wu F, Roychowdhury T, Liu F, Pochareddy S, Shin Y, Safi A, Song L, Zhu Y, Sousa AMM, Gerstein M, Crawford GE, Sestan N, Abyzov A, Vaccarino FM. Science. 2018 Dec 14. PMID: 30545853.
Genome-wide de novo risk score implicates promoter variation in autism spectrum disorder.An JY, Lin K, Zhu L, Werling DM, Dong S, Brand H, Wang HZ, Zhao X, Schwartz GB, Collins RL, Currall BB, Dastmalchi C, Dea J, Duhn C, Gilson MC, Klei L, Liang L, Markenscoff-Papadimitriou E, Pochareddy S, Ahituv N, Buxbaum JD, Coon H, Daly MJ, Kim YS, Marth GT, Neale BM, Quinlan AR, Rubenstein JL, Sestan N, State MW, Willsey AJ, Talkowski ME, Devlin B, Roeder K, Sanders SJ. Science. 2018 Dec 14. PMID: 30545852.
The 7q11.23 Protein DNAJC30 Interacts with ATP Synthase and Links Mitochondria to Brain Development.Tebbenkamp ATN, Varela L, Choi J, Paredes MI, Giani AM, Song JE, Sestan-Pesa M, Franjic D, Sousa AMM, Liu ZW, Li M, Bichsel C, Koch M, Szigeti-Buck K, Liu F, Li Z, Kawasawa YI, Paspalas CD, Mineur YS, Prontera P, Merla G, Picciotto MR, Arnsten AFT, Horvath TL, Sestan N. Cell. 2018 Nov 1. PMID: 30318146.
Lost in Translation: Traversing the Complex Path from Genomics to Therapeutics in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Sestan N, State MW. Neuron. 2018 Oct 24. PMID: 30359605.
Isoform-Level Interpretation of High-Throughput Proteomics Data Enabled by Deep Integration with RNA-seq.Carlyle BC, Kitchen RR, Zhang J, Wilson RS, Lam TT, Rozowsky JS, Williams KR, Sestan N, Gerstein MB, Nairn AC. J Proteome Res. 2018 Oct 5; 2018 Sep 6. PMID: 30125121.
Human neuroepithelial stem cell regional specificity enables spinal cord repair through a relay circuit.Dell'Anno MT, Wang X, Onorati M, Li M, Talpo F, Sekine Y, Ma S, Liu F, Cafferty WBJ, Sestan N, Strittmatter SM. Nat Commun. 2018 Aug 24; 2018 Aug 24. PMID: 30143638.
The CeNGEN Project: The Complete Gene Expression Map of an Entire Nervous System.Hammarlund M, Hobert O, Miller DM 3rd, Sestan N. Neuron. 2018 Aug 8. PMID: 30092212.
The Psychiatric Cell Map Initiative: A Convergent Systems Biological Approach to Illuminating Key Molecular Pathways in Neuropsychiatric Disorders.Willsey AJ, Morris MT, Wang S, Willsey HR, Sun N, Teerikorpi N, Baum TB, Cagney G, Bender KJ, Desai TA, Srivastava D, Davis GW, Doudna J, Chang E, Sohal V, Lowenstein DH, Li H, Agard D, Keiser MJ, Shoichet B, von Zastrow M, Mucke L, Finkbeiner S, Gan L, Sestan N, Ward ME, Huttenhain R, Nowakowski TJ, Bellen HJ, Frank LM, Khokha MK, Lifton RP, Kampmann M, Ideker T, State MW, Krogan NJ. Cell. 2018 Jul 26. PMID: 30053424.
An analytical framework for whole-genome sequence association studies and its implications for autism spectrum disorder.Werling DM, Brand H, An JY, Stone MR, Zhu L, Glessner JT, Collins RL, Dong S, Layer RM, Markenscoff-Papadimitriou E, Farrell A, Schwartz GB, Wang HZ, Currall BB, Zhao X, Dea J, Duhn C, Erdman CA, Gilson MC, Yadav R, Handsaker RE, Kashin S, Klei L, Mandell JD, Nowakowski TJ, Liu Y, Pochareddy S, Smith L, Walker MF, Waterman MJ, He X, Kriegstein AR, Rubenstein JL, Sestan N, McCarroll SA, Neale BM, Coon H, Willsey AJ, Buxbaum JD, Daly MJ, State MW, Quinlan AR, Marth GT, Roeder K, Devlin B, Talkowski ME, Sanders SJ. Nat Genet. 2018 Apr 26; 2018 Apr 26. PMID: 29700473.
Early emergence of cortical interneuron diversity in the mouse embryo.Mi D, Li Z, Lim L, Li M, Moissidis M, Yang Y, Gao T, Hu TX, Pratt T, Price DJ, Sestan N, Marín O. Science. 2018 Apr 6; 2018 Feb 22. PMID: 29472441.
The ethics of experimenting with human brain tissue.Farahany NA, Greely HT, Hyman S, Koch C, Grady C, Pașca SP, Sestan N, Arlotta P, Bernat JL, Ting J, Lunshof JE, Iyer EPR, Hyun I, Capestany BH, Church GM, Huang H, Song H. Nature. 2018 Apr. PMID: 29691509.
Reciprocal Connections Between Cortex and Thalamus Contribute to Retinal Axon Targeting to Dorsal Lateral Geniculate Nucleus.Diao Y, Cui L, Chen Y, Burbridge TJ, Han W, Wirth B, Sestan N, Crair MC, Zhang J. Cereb Cortex. 2018 Apr 1. PMID: 28334242.
Different mutational rates and mechanisms in human cells at pregastrulation and neurogenesis.Bae T, Tomasini L, Mariani J, Zhou B, Roychowdhury T, Franjic D, Pletikos M, Pattni R, Chen BJ, Venturini E, Riley-Gillis B, Sestan N, Urban AE, Abyzov A, Vaccarino FM. Science. 2018 Feb 2; 2017 Dec 7. PMID: 29217587.

2017

A multiregional proteomic survey of the postnatal human brain.Carlyle BC, Kitchen RR, Kanyo JE, Voss EZ, Pletikos M, Sousa AMM, Lam TT, Gerstein MB, Sestan N, Nairn AC. Nat Neurosci. 2017 Dec; 2017 Nov 13. PMID: 29184206.
Population-averaged macaque brain atlas with high-resolution ex vivo DTI integrated into in vivo space.Feng L, Jeon T, Yu Q, Ouyang M, Peng Q, Mishra V, Pletikos M, Sestan N, Miller MI, Mori S, Hsiao S, Liu S, Huang H. Brain Struct Funct. 2017 Dec; 2017 Jun 20. PMID: 28634624.
Molecular and cellular reorganization of neural circuits in the human lineage.Sousa AMM, Zhu Y, Raghanti MA, Kitchen RR, Onorati M, Tebbenkamp ATN, Stutz B, Meyer KA, Li M, Kawasawa YI, Liu F, Perez RG, Mele M, Carvalho T, Skarica M, Gulden FO, Pletikos M, Shibata A, Stephenson AR, Edler MK, Ely JJ, Elsworth JD, Horvath TL, Hof PR, Hyde TM, Kleinman JE, Weinberger DR, Reimers M, Lifton RP, Mane SM, Noonan JP, State MW, Lein ES, Knowles JA, Marques-Bonet T, Sherwood CC, Gerstein MB, Sestan N. Science. 2017 Nov 24. PMID: 29170230.
The BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Consortium: Lessons Learned toward Generating a Comprehensive Brain Cell Atlas.Ecker JR, Geschwind DH, Kriegstein AR, Ngai J, Osten P, Polioudakis D, Regev A, Sestan N, Wickersham IR, Zeng H. Neuron. 2017 Nov 1. PMID: 29096072.
Patients' Risk of Causing Traffic Violations and Traffic Accidents while Driving.Šestan N, Dodič Fikfak M, Balantič Z. Cent Eur J Public Health. 2017 Sep. PMID: 29022680.
Control of species-dependent cortico-motoneuronal connections underlying manual dexterity.Gu Z, Kalambogias J, Yoshioka S, Han W, Li Z, Kawasawa YI, Pochareddy S, Li Z, Liu F, Xu X, Wijeratne HRS, Ueno M, Blatz E, Salomone J, Kumanogoh A, Rasin MR, Gebelein B, Weirauch MT, Sestan N, Martin JH, Yoshida Y. Science. 2017 Jul 28. PMID: 28751609.
Evolution of the Human Nervous System Function, Structure, and Development.Sousa AMM, Meyer KA, Santpere G, Gulden FO, Sestan N. Cell. 2017 Jul 13. PMID: 28708995.
Post-transcriptional regulation of mouse neurogenesis by Pumilio proteins.Zhang M, Chen D, Xia J, Han W, Cui X, Neuenkirchen N, Hermes G, Sestan N, Lin H. Genes Dev. 2017 Jul 1; 2017 Aug 9. PMID: 28794184.
Differential Gene Expression in the Human Brain Is Associated with Conserved, but Not Accelerated, Noncoding Sequences.Meyer KA, Marques-Bonet T, Sestan N. Mol Biol Evol. 2017 May 1. PMID: 28204568.
Intersection of diverse neuronal genomes and neuropsychiatric disease: The Brain Somatic Mosaicism Network.McConnell MJ, Moran JV, Abyzov A, Akbarian S, Bae T, Cortes-Ciriano I, Erwin JA, Fasching L, Flasch DA, Freed D, Ganz J, Jaffe AE, Kwan KY, Kwon M, Lodato MA, Mills RE, Paquola ACM, Rodin RE, Rosenbluh C, Sestan N, Sherman MA, Shin JH, Song S, Straub RE, Thorpe J, Weinberger DR, Urban AE, Zhou B, Gage FH, Lehner T, Senthil G, Walsh CA, Chess A, Courchesne E, Gleeson JG, Kidd JM, Park PJ, Pevsner J, Vaccarino FM. Science. 2017 Apr 28; 2017 Apr 27. PMID: 28450582.
Disruptions in asymmetric centrosome inheritance and WDR62-Aurora kinase B interactions in primary microcephaly.Sgourdou P, Mishra-Gorur K, Saotome I, Henagariu O, Tuysuz B, Campos C, Ishigame K, Giannikou K, Quon JL, Sestan N, Caglayan AO, Gunel M, Louvi A. Sci Rep. 2017 Mar 8; 2017 Mar 8. PMID: 28272472.
Comprehensive cellular-resolution atlas of the adult human brain.Ding SL, Royall JJ, Sunkin SM, Ng L, Facer BA, Lesnar P, Guillozet-Bongaarts A, McMurray B, Szafer A, Dolbeare TA, Stevens A, Tirrell L, Benner T, Caldejon S, Dalley RA, Dee N, Lau C, Nyhus J, Reding M, Riley ZL, Sandman D, Shen E, van der Kouwe A, Varjabedian A, Write M, Zollei L, Dang C, Knowles JA, Koch C, Phillips JW, Sestan N, Wohnoutka P, Zielke HR, Hohmann JG, Jones AR, Bernard A, Hawrylycz MJ, Hof PR, Fischl B, LeinReference ES. J Comp Neurol. 2017 Feb 1. PMID: 27917481.
Axonal ribosomes and mRNAs associate with fragile X granules in adult rodent and human brains.Akins MR, Berk-Rauch HE, Kwan KY, Mitchell ME, Shepard KA, Korsak LI, Stackpole EE, Warner-Schmidt JL, Sestan N, Cameron HA, Fallon JR. Hum Mol Genet. 2017 Jan 1. PMID: 28082376.

2016

Simultaneous dimension reduction and adjustment for confounding variation.Lin Z, Yang C, Zhu Y, Duchi J, Fu Y, Wang Y, Jiang B, Zamanighomi M, Xu X, Li M, Sestan N, Zhao H, Wong WH. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Dec 20; 2016 Dec 7. PMID: 27930330.
Evolution of Osteocrin as an activity-regulated factor in the primate brain.Ataman B, Boulting GL, Harmin DA, Yang MG, Baker-Salisbury M, Yap EL, Malik AN, Mei K, Rubin AA, Spiegel I, Durresi E, Sharma N, Hu LS, Pletikos M, Griffith EC, Partlow JN, Stevens CR, Adli M, Chahrour M, Sestan N, Walsh CA, Berezovskii VK, Livingstone MS, Greenberg ME. Nature. 2016 Nov 10. PMID: 27830782.
TSHZ3 deletion causes an autism syndrome and defects in cortical projection neurons.Caubit X, Gubellini P, Andrieux J, Roubertoux PL, Metwaly M, Jacq B, Fatmi A, Had-Aissouni L, Kwan KY, Salin P, Carlier M, Liedén A, Rudd E, Shinawi M, Vincent-Delorme C, Cuisset JM, Lemaitre MP, Abderrehamane F, Duban B, Lemaitre JF, Woolf AS, Bockenhauer D, Severac D, Dubois E, Zhu Y, Sestan N, Garratt AN, Lydia Kerkerian-Le Goff, Fasano L. Nat Genet. 2016 Nov; 2016 Sep 26. PMID: 27668656.
Comprehensive cellular-resolution atlas of the adult human brain.Ding SL, Royall JJ, Sunkin SM, Ng L, Facer BA, Lesnar P, Guillozet-Bongaarts A, McMurray B, Szafer A, Dolbeare TA, Stevens A, Tirrell L, Benner T, Caldejon S, Dalley RA, Dee N, Lau C, Nyhus J, Reding M, Riley ZL, Sandman D, Shen E, van der Kouwe A, Varjabedian A, Wright M, Zöllei L, Dang C, Knowles JA, Koch C, Phillips JW, Sestan N, Wohnoutka P, Zielke HR, Hohmann JG, Jones AR, Bernard A, Hawrylycz MJ, Hof PR, Fischl B, Lein ES. J Comp Neurol. 2016 Nov 1. PMID: 27418273.
Zika Virus Disrupts Phospho-TBK1 Localization and Mitosis in Human Neuroepithelial Stem Cells and Radial Glia.Onorati M, Li Z, Liu F, Sousa AMM, Nakagawa N, Li M, Dell'Anno MT, Gulden FO, Pochareddy S, Tebbenkamp ATN, Han W, Pletikos M, Gao T, Zhu Y, Bichsel C, Varela L, Szigeti-Buck K, Lisgo S, Zhang Y, Testen A, Gao XB, Mlakar J, Popovic M, Flamand M, Strittmatter SM, Kaczmarek LK, Anton ES, Horvath TL, Lindenbach BD, Sestan N. Cell Rep. 2016 Sep 6; 2016 Aug 24. PMID: 27568284.
RNA-seq analysis of developing olfactory bulb projection neurons.Kawasawa YI, Salzberg AC, Li M, Šestan N, Greer CA, Imamura F. Mol Cell Neurosci. 2016 Jul; 2016 Apr 9. PMID: 27073125.
A Markov random field-based approach for joint estimation of differentially expressed genes in mouse transcriptome data.Lin Z, Li M, Sestan N, Zhao H. Stat Appl Genet Mol Biol. 2016 Apr. PMID: 26926866.
Down Syndrome Developmental Brain Transcriptome Reveals Defective Oligodendrocyte Differentiation and Myelination.Olmos-Serrano JL, Kang HJ, Tyler WA, Silbereis JC, Cheng F, Zhu Y, Pletikos M, Jankovic-Rapan L, Cramer NP, Galdzicki Z, Goodliffe J, Peters A, Sethares C, Delalle I, Golden JA, Haydar TF, Sestan N. Neuron. 2016 Mar 16; 2016 Feb 25. PMID: 26924435.
Transcriptome Analysis of the Human Striatum in Tourette Syndrome.Lennington JB, Coppola G, Kataoka-Sasaki Y, Fernandez TV, Palejev D, Li Y, Huttner A, Pletikos M, Sestan N, Leckman JF, Vaccarino FM. Biol Psychiatry. 2016 Mar 1; 2014 Jul 24. PMID: 25199956.
The Cellular and Molecular Landscapes of the Developing Human Central Nervous System.Silbereis JC, Pochareddy S, Zhu Y, Li M, Sestan N. Neuron. 2016 Jan 20. PMID: 26796689.

2015

Targeted DNA Sequencing from Autism Spectrum Disorder Brains Implicates Multiple Genetic Mechanisms.D'Gama AM, Pochareddy S, Li M, Jamuar SS, Reiff RE, Lam AN, Sestan N, Walsh CA. Neuron. 2015 Dec 2. PMID: 26637798.
The PsychENCODE project.Akbarian S, Liu C, Knowles JA, Vaccarino FM, Farnham PJ, Crawford GE, Jaffe AE, Pinto D, Dracheva S, Geschwind DH, Mill J, Nairn AC, Abyzov A, Pochareddy S, Prabhakar S, Weissman S, Sullivan PF, State MW, Weng Z, Peters MA, White KP, Gerstein MB, Amiri A, Armoskus C, Ashley-Koch AE, Bae T, Beckel-Mitchener A, Berman BP, Coetzee GA, Coppola G, Francoeur N, Fromer M, Gao R, Grennan K, Herstein J, Kavanagh DH, Ivanov NA, Jiang Y, Kitchen RR, Kozlenkov A, Kundakovic M, Li M, Li Z, Liu S, Mangravite LM, Mattei E, Markenscoff-Papadimitriou E, Navarro FC, North N, Omberg L, Panchision D, Parikshak N, Poschmann J, Price AJ, Purcaro M, Reddy TE, Roussos P, Schreiner S, Scuderi S, Sebra R, Shibata M, Shieh AW, Skarica M, Sun W, Swarup V, Thomas A, Tsuji J, van Bakel H, Wang D, Wang Y, Wang K, Werling DM, Willsey AJ, Witt H, Won H, Wong CC, Wray GA, Wu EY, Xu X, Yao L, Senthil G, Lehner T, Sklar P, Sestan N. Nat Neurosci. 2015 Dec. PMID: 26605881.
Functional synergy between cholecystokinin receptors CCKAR and CCKBR in mammalian brain development.Nishimura S, Bilgüvar K, Ishigame K, Sestan N, Günel M, Louvi A. PLoS One. 2015; 2015 Apr 15. PMID: 25875176.
Spatially heterogeneous choroid plexus transcriptomes encode positional identity and contribute to regional CSF production.Lun MP, Johnson MB, Broadbelt KG, Watanabe M, Kang YJ, Chau KF, Springel MW, Malesz A, Sousa AM, Pletikos M, Adelita T, Calicchio ML, Zhang Y, Holtzman MJ, Lidov HG, Sestan N, Steen H, Monuki ES, Lehtinen MK. J Neurosci. 2015 Mar 25. PMID: 25810521.
The autism-associated chromatin modifier CHD8 regulates other autism risk genes during human neurodevelopment.Cotney J, Muhle RA, Sanders SJ, Liu L, Willsey AJ, Niu W, Liu W, Klei L, Lei J, Yin J, Reilly SK, Tebbenkamp AT, Bichsel C, Pletikos M, Sestan N, Roeder K, State MW, Devlin B, Noonan JP. Nat Commun. 2015 Mar 10; 2015 Mar 10. PMID: 25752243.
A MARKOV RANDOM FIELD-BASED APPROACH TO CHARACTERIZING HUMAN BRAIN DEVELOPMENT USING SPATIAL-TEMPORAL TRANSCRIPTOME DATA.Lin Z, Sanders SJ, Li M, Sestan N, State MW, Zhao H. Ann Appl Stat. 2015 Mar. PMID: 26877824.
From trans to cis: transcriptional regulatory networks in neocortical development.Shibata M, Gulden FO, Sestan N. Trends Genet. 2015 Feb; 2015 Jan 24. PMID: 25624274.
Spatial mapping of structural and connectional imaging data for the developing human brain with diffusion tensor imaging.Ouyang A, Jeon T, Sunkin SM, Pletikos M, Sedmak G, Sestan N, Lein ES, Huang H. Methods. 2015 Feb; 2014 Nov 6. PMID: 25448302.
Homozygous loss of DIAPH1 is a novel cause of microcephaly in humans.Ercan-Sencicek AG, Jambi S, Franjic D, Nishimura S, Li M, El-Fishawy P, Morgan TM, Sanders SJ, Bilguvar K, Suri M, Johnson MH, Gupta AR, Yuksel Z, Mane S, Grigorenko E, Picciotto M, Alberts AS, Gunel M, Šestan N, State MW. Eur J Hum Genet. 2015 Feb; 2014 Apr 30. PMID: 24781755.
Mutations in KATNB1 Cause Complex Cerebral Malformations by Disrupting Asymmetrically Dividing Neural Progenitors.Mishra-Gorur K, Çağlayan AO, Schaffer AE, Chabu C, Henegariu O, Vonhoff F, Akgümüş GT, Nishimura S, Han W, Tu S, Baran B, Gümüş H, Dilber C, Zaki MS, Hossni HAA, Rivière JB, Kayserili H, Spencer EG, Rosti RÖ, Schroth J, Per H, Çağlar C, Çağlar Ç, Dölen D, Baranoski JF, Kumandaş S, Minja FJ, Erson-Omay EZ, Mane SM, Lifton RP, Xu T, Keshishian H, Dobyns WB, Chi NC, Šestan N, Louvi A, Bilgüvar K, Yasuno K, Gleeson JG, Günel M. Neuron. 2015 Jan 7; 2015 Jan 7. PMID: 29654772.

2014

Mutations in KATNB1 cause complex cerebral malformations by disrupting asymmetrically dividing neural progenitors.Mishra-Gorur K, Çağlayan AO, Schaffer AE, Chabu C, Henegariu O, Vonhoff F, Akgümüş GT, Nishimura S, Han W, Tu S, Baran B, Gümüş H, Dilber C, Zaki MS, Hossni HA, Rivière JB, Kayserili H, Spencer EG, Rosti RÖ, Schroth J, Per H, Çağlar C, Çağlar Ç, Dölen D, Baranoski JF, Kumandaş S, Minja FJ, Erson-Omay EZ, Mane SM, Lifton RP, Xu T, Keshishian H, Dobyns WB, Chi NC, Šestan N, Louvi A, Bilgüvar K, Yasuno K, Gleeson JG, Günel M. Neuron. 2014 Dec 17. PMID: 25521378.
Brain malformations associated with Knobloch syndrome--review of literature, expanding clinical spectrum, and identification of novel mutations.Caglayan AO, Baranoski JF, Aktar F, Han W, Tuysuz B, Guzel A, Guclu B, Kaymakcalan H, Aktekin B, Akgumus GT, Murray PB, Erson-Omay EZ, Caglar C, Bakircioglu M, Sakalar YB, Guzel E, Demir N, Tuncer O, Senturk S, Ekici B, Minja FJ, Šestan N, Yasuno K, Bilguvar K, Caksen H, Gunel M. Pediatr Neurol. 2014 Dec; 2014 Sep 4. PMID: 25456301.
Neurobiology: building a bigger brain.Gulden FO, Šestan N. Nature. 2014 Nov 13. PMID: 25391958.
Mental health. Adolescent mental health--opportunity and obligation.Lee FS, Heimer H, Giedd JN, Lein ES, Šestan N, Weinberger DR, Casey BJ. Science. 2014 Oct 31. PMID: 25359951.
XSAnno: a framework for building ortholog models in cross-species transcriptome comparisons.Zhu Y, Li M, Sousa AM, Sestan N. BMC Genomics. 2014 May 7; 2014 May 7. PMID: 24884593.
Rare deleterious mutations of the gene EFR3A in autism spectrum disorders.Gupta AR, Pirruccello M, Cheng F, Kang HJ, Fernandez TV, Baskin JM, Choi M, Liu L, Ercan-Sencicek AG, Murdoch JD, Klei L, Neale BM, Franjic D, Daly MJ, Lifton RP, De Camilli P, Zhao H, Sestan N, State MW. Mol Autism. 2014; 2014 Apr 29. PMID: 24860643.
Transcriptional landscape of the prenatal human brain.Miller JA, Ding SL, Sunkin SM, Smith KA, Ng L, Szafer A, Ebbert A, Riley ZL, Royall JJ, Aiona K, Arnold JM, Bennet C, Bertagnolli D, Brouner K, Butler S, Caldejon S, Carey A, Cuhaciyan C, Dalley RA, Dee N, Dolbeare TA, Facer BA, Feng D, Fliss TP, Gee G, Goldy J, Gourley L, Gregor BW, Gu G, Howard RE, Jochim JM, Kuan CL, Lau C, Lee CK, Lee F, Lemon TA, Lesnar P, McMurray B, Mastan N, Mosqueda N, Naluai-Cecchini T, Ngo NK, Nyhus J, Oldre A, Olson E, Parente J, Parker PD, Parry SE, Stevens A, Pletikos M, Reding M, Roll K, Sandman D, Sarreal M, Shapouri S, Shapovalova NV, Shen EH, Sjoquist N, Slaughterbeck CR, Smith M, Sodt AJ, Williams D, Zöllei L, Fischl B, Gerstein MB, Geschwind DH, Glass IA, Hawrylycz MJ, Hevner RF, Huang H, Jones AR, Knowles JA, Levitt P, Phillips JW, Sestan N, Wohnoutka P, Dang C, Bernard A, Hohmann JG, Lein ES. Nature. 2014 Apr 10; 2014 Apr 2. PMID: 24695229.
cAMP-PKA phosphorylation of tau confers risk for degeneration in aging association cortex.Carlyle BC, Nairn AC, Wang M, Yang Y, Jin LE, Simen AA, Ramos BP, Bordner KA, Craft GE, Davies P, Pletikos M, Šestan N, Arnsten AF, Paspalas CD. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Apr 1; 2014 Mar 18. PMID: 24707050.
The developmental transcriptome of the human brain: implications for neurodevelopmental disorders.Tebbenkamp AT, Willsey AJ, State MW, Sestan N. Curr Opin Neurol. 2014 Apr. PMID: 24565942.
Laminar and temporal expression dynamics of coding and noncoding RNAs in the mouse neocortex.Fertuzinhos S, Li M, Kawasawa YI, Ivic V, Franjic D, Singh D, Crair M, Sestan N. Cell Rep. 2014 Mar 13; 2014 Feb 20. PMID: 24561256.

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