Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

The TLX-miR-219 cascade regulates neural stem cell proliferation in neurodevelopment and schizophrenia iPSC model

  • Kiyohito Murai,
  • Guoqiang Sun,
  • Peng Ye,
  • E. Tian,
  • Su Yang,
  • Qi Cui,
  • Guihua Sun,
  • Daniel Trinh,
  • Olivia Sun,
  • Teresa Hong,
  • Zhexing Wen,
  • Markus Kalkum,
  • Arthur D. Riggs,
  • Hongjun Song,
  • Guo-li Ming,
  • Yanhong Shi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10965
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Dysregulation of microRNAs has been implicated in neurodevelopmental disorders, including schizophrenia. Here the authors show that the TLX-miR-219 cascade regulates the proliferation of neural stem cells during normal development, and this pathway is dysregulated in a schizophrenia iPSC model.