Development of prefrontal cortex

SM Kolk, P Rakic - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022 - nature.com
During evolution, the cerebral cortex advances by increasing in surface and the introduction
of new cytoarchitectonic areas among which the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is considered to be …

Synaptic dysfunction in neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental diseases: an overview of induced pluripotent stem-cell-based disease models

E Taoufik, G Kouroupi, O Zygogianni… - Open …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Synaptic dysfunction in CNS disorders is the outcome of perturbations in physiological
synapse structure and function, and can be either the cause or the consequence in specific …

[HTML][HTML] A randomized, controlled trial of the analytic and diagnostic performance of singleton and trio, rapid genome and exome sequencing in ill infants

SF Kingsmore, JA Cakici, MM Clark… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
The second Newborn Sequencing in Genomic Medicine and Public Health study was a
randomized, controlled trial of the effectiveness of rapid whole-genome or-exome …

Rates and classification of variants of uncertain significance in hereditary disease genetic testing

E Chen, FM Facio, KW Aradhya, S Rojahn… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Variants of uncertain significance (VUSs) are rampant in clinical genetic testing,
frustrating clinicians, patients, and laboratories because the uncertainty hinders diagnoses …

The contribution of copy number variants to psychiatric symptoms and cognitive ability

J Mollon, L Almasy, S Jacquemont, DC Glahn - Molecular psychiatry, 2023 - nature.com
Copy number variants (CNVs) are deletions and duplications of DNA sequence. The most
frequently studied CNVs, which are described in this review, are recurrent CNVs that occur …

Gain and loss of function variants in EZH1 disrupt neurogenesis and cause dominant and recessive neurodevelopmental disorders

C Gracia-Diaz, Y Zhou, Q Yang, R Maroofian… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Genetic variants in chromatin regulators are frequently found in neurodevelopmental
disorders, but their effect in disease etiology is rarely determined. Here, we uncover and …

A catalogue of new incidence estimates of monogenic neurodevelopmental disorders caused by de novo variants

JA López-Rivera, E Pérez-Palma, J Symonds, AS Lindy… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
A large fraction of rare and severe neurodevelopmental disorders are caused by sporadic
de novo variants. Epidemiological disease estimates are not available for the vast majority of …

Genome-wide association testing beyond SNPs

L Harris, EM McDonagh, X Zhang, K Fawcett… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Decades of genetic association testing in human cohorts have provided important insights
into the genetic architecture and biological underpinnings of complex traits and diseases …

Malformations of cerebral cortex development: molecules and mechanisms

G Juric-Sekhar, RF Hevner - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Malformations of cortical development encompass heterogeneous groups of structural brain
anomalies associated with complex neurodevelopmental disorders and diverse genetic and …

Pathogenic POGZ mutation causes impaired cortical development and reversible autism-like phenotypes

K Matsumura, K Seiriki, S Okada, M Nagase… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Pogo transposable element derived with ZNF domain (POGZ) has been identified as one of
the most recurrently de novo mutated genes in patients with neurodevelopmental disorders …