2021
Cell-to-Cell Adhesion and Neurogenesis in Human Cortical Development: A Study Comparing 2D Monolayers with 3D Organoid Cultures
Scuderi S, Altobelli GG, Cimini V, Coppola G, Vaccarino FM. Cell-to-Cell Adhesion and Neurogenesis in Human Cortical Development: A Study Comparing 2D Monolayers with 3D Organoid Cultures. Stem Cell Reports 2021, 16: 264-280. PMID: 33513360, PMCID: PMC7878838, DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2020.12.019.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2018
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 G, Sestan N, Abyzov A, Vaccarino F, Akbarian S, An J, Armoskus C, Ashley-Koch A, Beach T, Belmont J, Bendl J, Borrman T, Brown L, Brown M, Brown M, Brunetti T, Bryois J, Burke E, Camarena A, Carlyle B, Chae Y, Charney A, Chen C, Cheng L, Cherskov A, Choi J, Clarke D, Collado-Torres L, Dai R, De La Torre Ubieta L, DelValle D, Devillers O, Dracheva S, Emani P, Evgrafov O, Farnham P, Fitzgerald D, Flatow E, Francoeur N, Fullard J, Gandal M, Gao T, Garrett M, Geschwind D, Giase G, Girdhar K, Giusti-Rodriguez P, Goes F, Goodman T, Grennan K, Gu M, Gürsoy G, Hadjimichael E, Hahn C, Haroutunian V, Hauberg M, Hoffman G, Huey J, Hyde T, Ivanov N, Jacobov R, Jaffe A, Jiang Y, Jiang Y, Johnson G, Kassim B, Kefi A, Kim Y, Kitchen R, Kleiman J, Knowles J, Kozlenkov A, Li M, Li Z, Lipska B, Liu C, Liu S, Mangravite L, Mariani J, Mattei E, Miller D, Moore J, Nairn A, Navarro F, Park R, Peters M, Pinto D, Pochareddy S, Polioudakis D, Pratt H, Price A, Purcaro M, Ray M, Reddy T, Rhie S, Roussos P, Sanders S, Santpere G, Schreiner S, Sheppard B, Shi X, Shieh A, Shin J, Skarica M, Song L, Sousa A, Spitsyna V, State M, Sullivan P, Swarup V, Szatkiewicz J, Szekely A, Tao R, van Bakel H, Wang Y, Wang D, Warrell J, Webster M, Weissman S, Weng Z, Werling D, White K, Willsey J, Wiseman J, Witt H, Won H, Wray G, Xia Y, Xu M, Yang Y, Yang M, Zandi P, Zhang J, Zharovsky E. Transcriptome and epigenome landscape of human cortical development modeled in organoids. Science 2018, 362 PMID: 30545853, PMCID: PMC6426303, DOI: 10.1126/science.aat6720.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2017
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, Barton A, Bekiranov S, Bohrson C, Burbulis I, Chronister W, Coppola G, Daily K, D’Gama A, Emery S, Frisbie T, Gao T, Gulyás-Kovács A, Haakenson M, Keil J, Kopera H, Lam M, Lee E, Marques-Bonet T, Mathern G, Moldovan J, Oetjens M, Omberg L, Peters M, Pochareddy S, Pramparo T, Ratan A, Sanavia T, Shi L, Skarica M, Wang J, Wang M, Wang Y, Wierman M, Wolpert M, Woodworth M, Zhao X, Zhou W. Intersection of diverse neuronal genomes and neuropsychiatric disease: The Brain Somatic Mosaicism Network. Science 2017, 356 PMID: 28450582, PMCID: PMC5558435, DOI: 10.1126/science.aal1641.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSomatic mutationsComplex genetic architectureStructural genomic variantsNeuronal genomeNeuronal transcriptomeGenetic architectureCell divisionCellular metabolismGenomic variantsLong life spanDNA damageComplex neuropsychiatric disorderCellular expansionNeuropsychiatric diseasesNeuropsychiatric disordersProgenitor cellsSomatic mosaicismIndividual neurodevelopmentSmall populationCell proliferationPopulation-based studyMutationsGermline variantsLife spanBrain developmentHuman induced pluripotent stem cells for modelling neurodevelopmental disorders
Ardhanareeswaran K, Mariani J, Coppola G, Abyzov A, Vaccarino FM. Human induced pluripotent stem cells for modelling neurodevelopmental disorders. Nature Reviews Neurology 2017, 13: 265-278. PMID: 28418023, PMCID: PMC5782822, DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2017.45.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsEmbryonic stem cellsNeurodevelopmental disordersPluripotent stem cellsBrain developmentStem cellsAbnormal brain developmentBrain cell typesDopaminergic neuronsCortical neuronsUnique genetic signatureEarly developmentKey PointsHumanHiPSC modelsSomatic cellsDisordersGenetic signaturesGenetic studiesAltered trajectoryCell typesAdult cellsNeuronsUnknown facetsCellsDrug discoveryHiPSCsOne thousand somatic SNVs per skin fibroblast cell set baseline of mosaic mutational load with patterns that suggest proliferative origin
Abyzov A, Tomasini L, Zhou B, Vasmatzis N, Coppola G, Amenduni M, Pattni R, Wilson M, Gerstein M, Weissman S, Urban AE, Vaccarino FM. One thousand somatic SNVs per skin fibroblast cell set baseline of mosaic mutational load with patterns that suggest proliferative origin. Genome Research 2017, 27: 512-523. PMID: 28235832, PMCID: PMC5378170, DOI: 10.1101/gr.215517.116.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSomatic mosaicismFibroblast cellsSingle-cell whole-genome amplificationAllele frequenciesNumber of SNVsNormal cell proliferationCell proliferationWhole genome amplificationStem cell linesPluripotent stem cell lineHealthy human tissuesDe novo variantsCancer mutationsHigh-resolution analysisMutational loadPCR experimentsSkin fibroblast cellsMutational signaturesHiPSC linesDe novoGenomeNovo variantsFibroblast populationsCell linesSomatic SNVs
2015
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. The PsychENCODE project. Nature Neuroscience 2015, 18: 1707-1712. PMID: 26605881, PMCID: PMC4675669, DOI: 10.1038/nn.4156.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchFOXG1-Dependent Dysregulation of GABA/Glutamate Neuron Differentiation in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Mariani J, Coppola G, Zhang P, Abyzov A, Provini L, Tomasini L, Amenduni M, Szekely A, Palejev D, Wilson M, Gerstein M, Grigorenko EL, Chawarska K, Pelphrey KA, Howe JR, Vaccarino FM. FOXG1-Dependent Dysregulation of GABA/Glutamate Neuron Differentiation in Autism Spectrum Disorders. Cell 2015, 162: 375-390. PMID: 26186191, PMCID: PMC4519016, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.06.034.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInduced pluripotent stem cellsGene network analysisGene network modulesUpregulation of genesTranscription factor Foxg1Accelerated cell cyclePluripotent stem cellsRNA interferenceGenetic basisSynaptic assemblyCell cycleBrain developmentNeuron fateNeuron differentiationNeuronal differentiationGenomic mutationsHuman brain developmentIdiopathic autism spectrum disorderAltered expressionStem cellsCell proliferationFOXG1ASD pathophysiologyNetwork modulesNeural culturesThe use of stem cells to study autism spectrum disorder.
Ardhanareeswaran K, Coppola G, Vaccarino F. The use of stem cells to study autism spectrum disorder. The Yale Journal Of Biology And Medicine 2015, 88: 5-16. PMID: 25745370, PMCID: PMC4345539.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsHuman-induced pluripotent stem cellsStem cellsNeuronal developmentIdentification of hundredsEmbryonic stem cellsUnique genetic signaturePluripotent stem cellsCore symptomsASD patientsAutism spectrum disorderPost-mortem brain samplesGenome studiesGenetic signaturesAutism core symptomsNew therapeutic avenuesSerious developmental disabilitiesIdiopathic autism spectrum disorderSkin biopsiesHuman-specific behaviorsSpectrum disorderSingle drugDrug AdministrationTherapeutic avenuesBrain samplesDiagnostic tests
2014
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. Transcriptome Analysis of the Human Striatum in Tourette Syndrome. Biological Psychiatry 2014, 79: 372-382. PMID: 25199956, PMCID: PMC4305353, DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.07.018.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCopy number variantsGenome-wide association studiesGene coexpression modulesNumber variantsGene network analysisCommon genetic variantsCoexpression modulesUpregulated genesMetabolism modulesImmune-related genesNetwork analysisAssociation studiesDifferential expressionUpregulated modulesGenetic variantsGenesPatient's striatumTS individualsTranscriptomeVariantsMetabolic alterationsSame regionGamma-aminobutyric acidergic interneuronsTranscriptsRNA
2012
Neurobiology meets genomic science: The promise of human-induced pluripotent stem cells
Stevens HE, Mariani J, Coppola G, Vaccarino FM. Neurobiology meets genomic science: The promise of human-induced pluripotent stem cells. Development And Psychopathology 2012, 24: 1443-1451. PMID: 23062309, PMCID: PMC3513939, DOI: 10.1017/s095457941200082x.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsHuman-induced pluripotent stem cellsPluripotent stem cellsStem cellsNeuronal cellsInduced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technologyPluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technologyNormal human brain developmentHuman genesSomatic cellsCell biologyStem cell technologyGene transcriptsHuman brain developmentAspects of developmentMessenger RNADevelopmental stepsGenomic scienceBiologySeries of eventsCellsBrain developmentGenesGeneticsHuman individualsTranscriptsModeling human cortical development in vitro using induced pluripotent stem cells
Mariani J, Simonini MV, Palejev D, Tomasini L, Coppola G, Szekely AM, Horvath TL, Vaccarino FM. Modeling human cortical development in vitro using induced pluripotent stem cells. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2012, 109: 12770-12775. PMID: 22761314, PMCID: PMC3411972, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1202944109.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHuman brain developmentHuman induced pluripotent stem cellsLayer-specific cortical neuronsBrain developmentHuman cerebral cortexHuman cortical developmentStem cellsPluripotent stem cellsCerebral cortexCortical neuronsCortical developmentCNS regionsRadial gliaCortical wallDorsal telencephalonEmbryonic telencephalonGene expression profilesInduced pluripotent stem cellsIntermediate progenitorsTelencephalic developmentTelencephalonExpression profilesTranscriptional programsCellsGlia
2011
Index proposal and basic estimator study for quantification of oscillation of the secondary flow pattern in tortuous vessels
Mari JM, Khoo M, Riga C, Coppola G, Bicknell C, G. CG. Index proposal and basic estimator study for quantification of oscillation of the secondary flow pattern in tortuous vessels. Ultrasonics 2011, 52: 294-305. PMID: 21982777, DOI: 10.1016/j.ultras.2011.08.015.Peer-Reviewed Original Research