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ArticleMolecular psychiatry2025

Human-unique brain cell clusters are associated with learning disorders and human episodic memory activity.

Junjie Ma, Ruicheng Qi, Jing Wang, Stefano Berto, Guang-Zhong Wang

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Article in Molecular psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 authors.

Junjie Ma *CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China.
Ruicheng Qi *CAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China.
Jing WangCAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China.
Stefano BertoDepartment of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 29425, USA.
Guang-Zhong WangCAS Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 200031, China. guangzhong.wang@picb.ac.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-6432-8310

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32170567National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 81827901
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The advanced evolution of the human cerebral cortex forms the basis for our high-level cognitive functions. Through a comparative analysis of single-nucleus transcriptome data from the human neocortex and that of chimpanzees, macaques, and marmosets, we discovered 20 subgroups of cell types unique to the human brain, which include 11 types of excitatory neurons. Many of these human-unique cell clusters exhibit significant overexpression of genes regulated by human-specific enhancers. Notably, these specific cell clusters also express genes associated with disease risk, particularly those related to brain dysfunctions like learning disorders. Furthermore, genes linked to cortical thickness and human episodic memory encoding activities show heightened expression within these cell subgroups. These findings underscore the critical role of human brain-unique cell clusters in the evolution of human brain functions.

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BrainLearning DisabilitiesMemory, EpisodicNeuronsTranscriptomeAnimalsCallithrixCerebral CortexFemaleHumansMacacaMaleNeocortexPan troglodytes

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