iPSC,

Siwei Zhang1, Hanwen Zhang1, Yifan Zhou2,3

  • 1Center for Psychiatric Genetics, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL 60201, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|August 1, 2020
PubMed
まとめ

研究者らはヒトの神経細胞におけるアレル特異のオープンクロマチン (ASoC) を特定し,遺伝的変異が脳の発達と神経精神疾患のリスクにどのように影響するか明らかにした. この方法は統合失調症のような 機能的リスク遺伝子を特定するのに役立ちます

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