Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Modeling human telencephalic development and autism-associated SHANK3 deficiency using organoids generated from single neural rosettes

  • Yueqi Wang,
  • Simone Chiola,
  • Guang Yang,
  • Chad Russell,
  • Celeste J. Armstrong,
  • Yuanyuan Wu,
  • Jay Spampanato,
  • Paisley Tarboton,
  • H. M. Arif Ullah,
  • Nicolas U. Edgar,
  • Amelia N. Chang,
  • David A. Harmin,
  • Vittoria Dickinson Bocchi,
  • Elena Vezzoli,
  • Dario Besusso,
  • Jun Cui,
  • Elena Cattaneo,
  • Jan Kubanek,
  • Aleksandr Shcheglovitov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33364-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 25

Abstract

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Our understanding of human brain development in health and disease is limited. The authors generated human brain organoids from stem cell-derived isolated single neural rosettes to study human cortico-striatal development and deficits caused by an autism-associated genetic abnormality in SHANK3.