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ReviewNature neuroscience2020

Massively parallel techniques for cataloguing the regulome of the human brain.

Kayla G Townsley, Kristen J Brennand, Laura M Huckins

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In one paragraph

Review in Nature neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 57 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Functional Neurogenomics to Dissect Disease Mechanisms Across Models.Annual review of genomics and human genetics · 2025
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  4. Research Progress on Neural Cell Culture Systems.Current neuropharmacology · 2025
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  6. Advance in the Thermoinhibition of Lettuce (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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  10. Massively parallelbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kayla G TownsleyGraduate School of Biomedical Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4706-5752
Kristen J BrennandGraduate School of Biomedical Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. kristen.brennand@mssm.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0993-5956
Laura M HuckinsPamela Sklar Division of Psychiatric Genomics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. laura.huckins@mssm.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5369-6502
Allen Institute for Brain Science · USJames J. Peters VA Medical Center · US

Funding

EXITO: Enhancing Cross-disciplinary Infrastructure and Training at OregonUL1GM118964 · NIGMS · PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY · PI KELLER, THOMAS E · 2015 to 2023
$18.0M
EXITO: Enhancing Cross-disciplinary Infrastructure and Training at OregonRL5GM118963 · NIGMS · PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY · PI KELLER, THOMAS E · 2015 to 2023
$11.9M
EXITO: Enhancing Cross-disciplinary Infrastructure and Training at OregonTL4GM118965 · NIGMS · PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY · PI KELLER, THOMAS E · 2015 to 2022
$10.1M
Higher Order Chromatin and Genetic Risk for SchizophreniaR01MH106056 · NIMH · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI AKBARIAN, SCHAHRAM, BRENNAND, KRISTEN JENNIFER · 2015 to 2023
$6.7M
Modeling the interaction of physiological and environmental stressors on common variants to psychiatric traitsR01ES033630 · NIEHS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Kristen Jennifer Brennand · 2022 to 2026
$4.6M
Cell-type-specific NRXN1alpha alternative splicing changes in psychiatric diseaseR01MH121074 · NIMH · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI BRENNAND, KRISTEN JENNIFER, FANG, GANG · 2019 to 2023
$4.4M
Predicting the multi-omic impact of psychiatric GWAS associationsR01MH118278 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI HUCKINS, LAURA MARIANNE · 2019 to 2023
$3.6M
Integrated Multiscale Networks in SchizophreniaR01MH109897 · NIMH · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI BRENNAND, KRISTEN JENNIFER, ROUSSOS, PANAGIOTIS · 2016 to 2020
$3.0M
Modeling the contribution of common variants to schizophrenia riskR56MH101454 · NIMH · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI BRENNAND, KRISTEN JENNIFER, HUCKINS, LAURA MARIANNE · 2018 to 2019
$1.5M
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Complex brain disorders are highly heritable and arise from a complex polygenic risk architecture. Many disease-associated loci are found in non-coding regions that house regulatory elements. These elements influence the transcription of target genes-many of which demonstrate cell-type-specific expression patterns-and thereby affect phenotypically relevant molecular pathways. Thus, cell-type-specificity must be considered when prioritizing candidate risk loci, variants and target genes. This Review discusses the use of high-throughput assays in human induced pluripotent stem cell-based neurodevelopmental models to probe genetic risk in a cell-type- and patient-specific manner. The application of massively parallel reporter assays in human induced pluripotent stem cells can characterize the human regulome and test the transcriptional responses of putative regulatory elements. Parallel CRISPR-based screens can further functionally dissect this genetic regulatory architecture. The integration of these emerging technologies could decode genetic risk into medically actionable information, thereby improving genetic diagnosis and identifying novel points of therapeutic intervention.

Indexed as

BrainClustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsGene Expression RegulationGeneticsHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysHumansInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsRegulatory Elements, Transcriptional

Identifiers

PMID33199899
PMCPMC8018778
OpenAlexW3099960787

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