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ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2024

A multi-layered integrative analysis reveals a cholesterol metabolic program in outer radial glia with implications for human brain evolution.

Juan Moriano, Oliviero Leonardi, Alessandro Vitriolo, Giuseppe Testa, Cedric Boeckx

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Article in Development (Cambridge, England), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. FABP7 controls radial glial scaffold stability during human cortical development.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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5 authors.

Juan MorianoDepartment of General Linguistics, University of Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-6781-340X
Oliviero LeonardiHuman Technopole, Viale Rita Levi-Montalcini 1, 20157 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0009-0002-0702-4366
Alessandro VitrioloHuman Technopole, Viale Rita Levi-Montalcini 1, 20157 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1462-8064
Giuseppe TestaHuman Technopole, Viale Rita Levi-Montalcini 1, 20157 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9104-0918
Cedric BoeckxDepartment of General Linguistics, University of Barcelona, 08007 Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-8882-9718

Funding

Generalitat de Catalunya 2021-SGR-313Generalitat de Catalunya 2021-SGR-313; FI-SDUR 2020Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion PID2019-107042GB-I00Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PID2019-107042GB-I00University of Barcelona
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The definition of molecular and cellular mechanisms contributing to brain ontogenetic trajectories is essential to investigate the evolution of our species. Yet their functional dissection at an appropriate level of granularity remains challenging. Capitalizing on recent efforts that have extensively profiled neural stem cells from the developing human cortex, we develop an integrative computational framework to perform trajectory inference and gene regulatory network reconstruction, (pseudo)time-informed non-negative matrix factorization for learning the dynamics of gene expression programs, and paleogenomic analysis for a higher-resolution mapping of derived regulatory variants in our species in comparison with our closest relatives. We provide evidence for cell type-specific regulation of gene expression programs during indirect neurogenesis. In particular, our analysis uncovers a key role for a cholesterol program in outer radial glia, regulated by zinc-finger transcription factor KLF6. A cartography of the regulatory landscape impacted by Homo sapiens-derived variants reveals signals of selection clustering around regulatory regions associated with GLI3, a well-known regulator of radial glial cell cycle, and impacting KLF6 regulation. Our study contributes to the evidence of significant changes in metabolic pathways in recent human brain evolution.

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BrainCholesterolEpendymoglial CellsGene Regulatory NetworksBiological EvolutionGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHumansKruppel-Like Factor 6Neural Stem CellsNeurogenesisCholesterolKruppel-Like Factor 6Brain evolutionCholesterolHomo sapiensIndirect neurogenesisKLF6

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PMCPMC11385646

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