ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2021
Human brain evolution: Emerging roles for regulatory DNA and RNA.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 63 citations in OpenAlex.
- External Entropy Production and Human Evolution Toward Multi-Body Life.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Human-specific lncRNAs contributed critically to human evolution by distinctly regulating gene expression.eLife · 2026Article
- Biophysical constraints on mRNA decay rates shape macroevolutionary divergence in steady-state abundances.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
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- How our brains are built: emerging approaches to understand human-specific features.Current opinion in genetics & development · 2024Review
- The Human Accelerated Region HAR202 Controls NPAS3 Expression in the Developing Forebrain Displaying Differential Enhancer Activity Between Modern and Archaic Human Sequences.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Deciphering the Role of Rapidly Evolving Conserved Elements in Primate Brain Development and Exploring Their Potential Involvement in Alzheimer's Disease.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Celf4 controls mRNA translation underlying synaptic development in the prenatal mammalian neocortex.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Detecting signatures of selection on gene expression.Nature ecology & evolution · 2022Article
- Evolution and dysfunction of human cognitive and social traits: A transcriptional regulation perspective.Evolutionary human sciences · 2022Review
- Keeping the balance: Trade-offs between human brain evolution, autism, and schizophrenia.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Review
- miR-409-3p repressesFrontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Humans diverge from other primates in numerous ways, including their neuroanatomy and cognitive capacities. Human-specific features are particularly prominent in the cerebral cortex, which has undergone an expansion in size and acquired unique cellular composition and circuitry. Human-specific gene expression is postulated to explain neocortical anatomical differences across evolution. In particular, noncoding regulatory loci are strongly linked to human traits, including progenitor proliferation and cortical size. In this review, we highlight emerging noncoding elements implicated in human cortical evolution, including roles for regulatory DNA and RNA. Further, we discuss the association of human-specific genetic changes with neurodevelopmental diseases.
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