2015
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. The autism-associated chromatin modifier CHD8 regulates other autism risk genes during human neurodevelopment. Nature Communications 2015, 6: 6404. PMID: 25752243, PMCID: PMC4355952, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7404.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsASD risk genesRisk genesRegulatory networksAncient gene regulatory networksHuman neural stem cellsLoss of CHD8Specific regulatory networksGene regulatory networksCo-expression networkAutism risk genesEmbryonic mouse cortexChromatin modifiersIdentification of recurrentChromodomain-HelicaseChd8 knockdownNeural stem cellsMouse neurodevelopmentCHD8Human brain developmentFunction mutationsGenesStem cellsHuman neurodevelopmentNovo lossBrain development
2006
Accelerated Evolution of Conserved Noncoding Sequences in Humans
Prabhakar S, Noonan JP, Pääbo S, Rubin EM. Accelerated Evolution of Conserved Noncoding Sequences in Humans. Science 2006, 314: 786-786. PMID: 17082449, DOI: 10.1126/science.1130738.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNoncoding sequencesNeuronal cell adhesionConserved Noncoding SequencesCis-regulatory changesHuman-specific substitutionsCell adhesionHuman regulatory sequencesPhenotypic divergenceAdaptive substitutionsGene regulationAccelerated evolutionIndependent evolutionRegulatory sequencesAdhesion genesHuman evolutionNeuronal phenotypeDifferent neuronal phenotypesGenesSequenceSimilar enrichmentBrain developmentChimpanzeesEvolutionMammalsAdhesion