Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Transcriptional signatures of schizophrenia in hiPSC-derived NPCs and neurons are concordant with post-mortem adult brains

  • Gabriel E. Hoffman,
  • Brigham J. Hartley,
  • Erin Flaherty,
  • Ian Ladran,
  • Peter Gochman,
  • Douglas M. Ruderfer,
  • Eli A. Stahl,
  • Judith Rapoport,
  • Pamela Sklar,
  • Kristen J. Brennand

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02330-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-based models have inherent variations in their cellular and molecular output and readouts. Here, Hoffman and colleagues devise a method to account for gene expression variations in hiPSC-derived neurons from patients with childhood-onset schizophrenia.