Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

Transcriptomic and cellular decoding of regional brain vulnerability to neurogenetic disorders

  • Jakob Seidlitz,
  • Ajay Nadig,
  • Siyuan Liu,
  • Richard A. I. Bethlehem,
  • Petra E. Vértes,
  • Sarah E. Morgan,
  • František Váša,
  • Rafael Romero-Garcia,
  • François M. Lalonde,
  • Liv S. Clasen,
  • Jonathan D. Blumenthal,
  • Casey Paquola,
  • Boris Bernhardt,
  • Konrad Wagstyl,
  • Damon Polioudakis,
  • Luis de la Torre-Ubieta,
  • Daniel H. Geschwind,
  • Joan C. Han,
  • Nancy R. Lee,
  • Declan G. Murphy,
  • Edward T. Bullmore,
  • Armin Raznahan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17051-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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How neurodevelopmental disorder-associated risk genes are translated into spatially patterned brain vulnerabilities is unclear. Here, the authors show that disorder-specific patterns of neuroanatomical changes are aligned to brain expression maps of disease risk genes in healthy subjects.