Canonical Genetic Signatures of the Adult Human Brain

@article{Hawrylycz2015CanonicalGS,
  title={Canonical Genetic Signatures of the Adult Human Brain},
  author={Michael J. Hawrylycz and Jeremy A. Miller and Vilas Menon and David Feng and Tim Dolbeare and Angie Guillozet‐Bongaarts and Anil G. Jegga and Bruce J. Aronow and Changkyu Lee and Amy Bernard and Matthew F. Glasser and Donna L. Dierker and J{\"o}rg Menche and Aaron Szafer and Forrest Collman and Pascal Grange and Kenneth A. Berman and Stefan Mihalas and Zizhen Yao and Lance J. Stewart and A L Barabasi and Jay Schulkin and John W. Phillips and Lydia Ng and Chinh Dang and David R. Haynor and Allan R. Jones and David C. van Essen and Christof Koch and Ed S. Lein},
  journal={Nature neuroscience},
  year={2015},
  volume={18},
  pages={1832 - 1844}
}
The structure and function of the human brain are highly stereotyped, implying a conserved molecular program responsible for its development, cellular structure and function. [] Key Result The genes with the highest differential stability are highly biologically relevant, with enrichment for brain-related annotations, disease associations, drug targets and literature citations.
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