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Neuronal impact of patient-specific aberrant NRXN1α splicing
Flaherty E, Zhu S, Barretto N, Cheng E, Deans PJM, Fernando MB, Schrode N, Francoeur N, Antoine A, Alganem K, Halpern M, Deikus G, Shah H, Fitzgerald M, Ladran I, Gochman P, Rapoport J, Tsankova NM, McCullumsmith R, Hoffman GE, Sebra R, Fang G, Brennand KJ. Neuronal impact of patient-specific aberrant NRXN1α splicing. Nature Genetics 2019, 51: 1679-1690. PMID: 31784728, PMCID: PMC7451045, DOI: 10.1038/s41588-019-0539-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAlternative SplicingAnimalsAutism Spectrum DisorderBipolar DisorderCalcium-Binding ProteinsCase-Control StudiesDepressive Disorder, MajorFemaleGene ExpressionHeterozygoteHumansInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsMaleMiceNeural Cell Adhesion MoleculesProtein IsoformsSchizophreniaSequence Deletion
2024
Cross-ancestry atlas of gene, isoform, and splicing regulation in the developing human brain
Wen C, Margolis M, Dai R, Zhang P, Przytycki P, Vo D, Bhattacharya A, Matoba N, Tang M, Jiao C, Kim M, Tsai E, Hoh C, Aygün N, Walker R, Chatzinakos C, Clarke D, Pratt H, Peters M, Gerstein M, Daskalakis N, Weng Z, Jaffe A, Kleinman J, Hyde T, Weinberger D, Bray N, Sestan N, Geschwind D, Roeder K, Gusev A, Pasaniuc B, Stein J, Love M, Pollard K, Liu C, Gandal M, Akbarian S, Abyzov A, Ahituv N, Arasappan D, Almagro Armenteros J, Beliveau B, Bendl J, Berretta S, Bharadwaj R, Bicks L, Brennand K, Capauto D, Champagne F, Chatterjee T, Chatzinakos C, Chen Y, Chen H, Cheng Y, Cheng L, Chess A, Chien J, Chu Z, Clement A, Collado-Torres L, Cooper G, Crawford G, Davila-Velderrain J, Deep-Soboslay A, Deng C, DiPietro C, Dracheva S, Drusinsky S, Duan Z, Duong D, Dursun C, Eagles N, Edelstein J, Emani P, Fullard J, Galani K, Galeev T, Gaynor S, Girdhar K, Goes F, Greenleaf W, Grundman J, Guo H, Guo Q, Gupta C, Hadas Y, Hallmayer J, Han X, Haroutunian V, Hawken N, He C, Henry E, Hicks S, Ho M, Ho L, Hoffman G, Huang Y, Huuki-Myers L, Hwang A, Iatrou A, Inoue F, Jajoo A, Jensen M, Jiang L, Jin P, Jin T, Jops C, Jourdon A, Kawaguchi R, Kellis M, Kleopoulos S, Kozlenkov A, Kriegstein A, Kundaje A, Kundu S, Lee C, Lee D, Li J, Li M, Lin X, Liu S, Liu J, Liu J, Liu S, Lou S, Loupe J, Lu D, Ma S, Ma L, Mariani J, Martinowich K, Maynard K, Mazariegos S, Meng R, Myers R, Micallef C, Mikhailova T, Ming G, Mohammadi S, Monte E, Montgomery K, Moore J, Moran J, Mukamel E, Nairn A, Nemeroff C, Ni P, Norton S, Nowakowski T, Omberg L, Page S, Park S, Patowary A, Pattni R, Pertea G, Phalke N, Pinto D, Pjanic M, Pochareddy S, Pollen A, Purmann C, Qin Z, Qu P, Quintero D, Raj T, Rajagopalan A, Reach S, Reimonn T, Ressler K, Ross D, Roussos P, Rozowsky J, Ruth M, Ruzicka W, Sanders S, Schneider J, Scuderi S, Sebra R, Seyfried N, Shao Z, Shedd N, Shieh A, Shin J, Skarica M, Snijders C, Song H, State M, Steyert M, Subburaju S, Sudhof T, Snyder M, Tao R, Therrien K, Tsai L, Urban A, Vaccarino F, van Bakel H, Voloudakis G, Wamsley B, Wang T, Wang S, Wang D, Wang Y, Warrell J, Wei Y, Weimer A, Whalen S, White K, Willsey A, Won H, Wong W, Wu H, Wu F, Wuchty S, Wylie D, Xu S, Yap C, Zeng B, Zhang C, Zhang B, Zhang J, Zhang Y, Zhou X, Ziffra R, Zeier Z, Zintel T. Cross-ancestry atlas of gene, isoform, and splicing regulation in the developing human brain. Science 2024, 384: eadh0829. PMID: 38781368, DOI: 10.1126/science.adh0829.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsGenome-wide association studiesGenome-wide association study lociSplicing quantitative trait lociQuantitative trait lociSplicing regulationCross-ancestryTrait lociAssociation studiesRegulatory elementsCellular contextHuman brainTranscriptome regulationCoexpression networkRisk genesAutism spectrum disorderGenesCellular heterogeneityComprehensive landscapeSpectrum disorderIsoformsSplicingIncreased cellular heterogeneityLociNeuronal maturationRegulation
2021
Induction of dopaminergic neurons for neuronal subtype-specific modeling of psychiatric disease risk
Powell SK, O’Shea C, Townsley K, Prytkova I, Dobrindt K, Elahi R, Iskhakova M, Lambert T, Valada A, Liao W, Ho SM, Slesinger PA, Huckins LM, Akbarian S, Brennand KJ. Induction of dopaminergic neurons for neuronal subtype-specific modeling of psychiatric disease risk. Molecular Psychiatry 2021, 28: 1970-1982. PMID: 34493831, PMCID: PMC8898985, DOI: 10.1038/s41380-021-01273-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAutism Spectrum DisorderDopaminergic NeuronsHumansInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsMesencephalonReproducibility of ResultsConceptsInduced dopaminergic neuronsDopaminergic neuronsMidbrain dopaminergic neuron developmentNeuron identityHuman induced pluripotent stem cellsCannabis use disorderDopaminergic neuron developmentAction potential durationGlutamatergic neuronsDopamine synthesisSpontaneous burstsPotential durationUse disordersNeuronal subtypesPsychiatric diseasesBipolar disorderElectrophysiological propertiesDisease riskHyperpolarization potentialPsychiatric disease riskNeuron developmentOscillatory activityNeuronsHeterogenous cell populationsCell populations
2016
Altered proliferation and networks in neural cells derived from idiopathic autistic individuals
Marchetto M, Belinson H, Tian Y, Freitas B, Fu C, Vadodaria K, Beltrao-Braga P, Trujillo C, Mendes A, Padmanabhan K, Nunez Y, Ou J, Ghosh H, Wright R, Brennand K, Pierce K, Eichenfield L, Pramparo T, Eyler L, Barnes C, Courchesne E, Geschwind D, Gage F, Wynshaw-Boris A, Muotri A. Altered proliferation and networks in neural cells derived from idiopathic autistic individuals. Molecular Psychiatry 2016, 22: 820-835. PMID: 27378147, PMCID: PMC5215991, DOI: 10.1038/mp.2016.95.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNeural progenitor cellsInsulin growth factor-1Pluripotent stem cellsTranscriptional cascadeNeuronal networksAutism spectrum disorderGrowth factor-1Human cell modelsNormal brain sizeEarly brain overgrowthPotential cellular mechanismsMolecular mechanismsGenetic studiesClinical trialsIGF-1Therapeutic effectBrain pathologyAbnormal neurogenesisΒ-cateninCellular mechanismsStem cellsBrain overgrowthProgenitor cellsNeural cellsAltered proliferation