Programmed to be human?

Zeljka Korade; Károly Mirnics

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2014.01.006

Programmed to be human?

Neuron. 2014 Jan 22;81(2):224-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2014.01.006.

Authors

Zeljka Korade¹, Károly Mirnics²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychiatry and Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA. Electronic address: zeljka.korade@vanderbilt.edu.
² Department of Psychiatry and Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA. Electronic address: karoly.mirnics@vanderbilt.edu.

Abstract

Pletikos et al. (2014) demonstrate in this issue of Neuron that the human neocortex has an "hourglass" temporal gene expression pattern with robust and dynamic transcriptome differences during the prenatal and adolescent/adult periods. Similar changes are not observed in the nonhuman primate-is this what makes us human?

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Animals
Female
Functional Laterality / physiology*
Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental / physiology*
Humans
Male
Neocortex*
Nerve Tissue Proteins / genetics*

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Nerve Tissue Proteins

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