Saroja Somasundaram

TL;DR: RNA-sequencing analysis of cells in the human cortex enabled identification of diverse cell types, revealing well-conserved architecture and homologous cell types as well as extensive differences when compared with datasets covering the analogous region of the mouse brain.

TL;DR: The primary motor cortex (M1) is essential for voluntary fine-motor control and is functionally conserved across mammals using high-throughput transcriptomic and epigenomic profiling of more than 450k single nuclei in humans, marmoset monkeys and mice as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: This study reveals a unified molecular genetic landscape of cortical cell types that congruently integrates their transcriptome, open chromatin and DNA methylation maps, and establishes a unified and mechanistic framework of neuronal cell type organization that integrates multi-layered molecular genetic and spatial information with multi-faceted phenotypic properties.

TL;DR: The primary motor cortex (M1) is essential for voluntary fine motor control and is functionally conserved across mammals, and a broadly conserved cellular makeup is demonstrated, whose similarity mirrors evolutionary distance and is consistent between the transcriptome and epigenome.

TL;DR: In this paper, comparative open chromatin analysis was used to identify thousands of human-neocortical-subclass-specific putative enhancers from across the genome to control gene expression in adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors.