Evidence map›Paper›PMID 41610256›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2026

The evolution of gene regulation in mammalian cerebellum development.

Ioannis Sarropoulos, Mari Sepp, Tetsuya Yamada, Philipp S L Schäfer, Nils Trost, Julia Schmidt, Céline Schneider, Charis Drummer, Sophie Mißbach, Ibrahim I Taskiran and 17 more

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. The molecular evolution of vertebrate organs.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026
    Review
  6. Article
  7. Article
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

27 authors.

Ioannis Sarropoulos *Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2242-0562
Mari Sepp *Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1733-8385
Tetsuya Yamada *Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8601-737X
Philipp S L SchäferCenter for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0009-0008-4403-8592
Nils TrostCenter for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5171-018X
Julia SchmidtCenter for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4617-3463
Céline SchneiderCenter for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4505-4825
Charis DrummerGerman Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Platform Stem Cell Biology and Regeneration, Göttingen, Germany.
Sophie MißbachGerman Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Platform Stem Cell Biology and Regeneration, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0009-0005-2210-0445
Ibrahim I TaskiranLaboratory of Computational Biology, VIB Center for AI & Computational Biology (VIB.AI), Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-5077-5264
Nikolai HeckerLaboratory of Computational Biology, VIB Center for AI & Computational Biology (VIB.AI), Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-1693-4257
Carmen Bravo González-BlasLaboratory of Computational Biology, VIB Center for AI & Computational Biology (VIB.AI), Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0003-0973-9410
Robert FrömelCenter for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0438-8677
Piyush JoshiHopp-Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5631-336X
Evgeny LeushkinCenter for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany.
Frederik ArnskötterHopp-Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0009-0006-9420-0485
Kevin LeissCenter for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany.
Konstantin OkonechnikovHopp-Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3409-2340
Steven LisgoBiosciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5186-3971
Miklós PalkovitsHuman Brain Tissue Bank, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary.ORCID 0000-0003-0578-0387
Svante PääboDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4670-6311
Margarida Cardoso-MoreiraEvolutionary Developmental Biology Laboratory, Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6639-3597
Lena M KutscherHopp-Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1130-4582
Rüdiger BehrGerman Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Platform Stem Cell Biology and Regeneration, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8816-6619
Stefan M PfisterHopp-Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ), Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5447-5322
Stein Aerts *Laboratory of Computational Biology, VIB Center for AI & Computational Biology (VIB.AI), Leuven, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0002-8006-0315
Henrik Kaessmann *Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7563-839X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene regulatory changes are considered major drivers of evolutionary innovations, including the cerebellum's expansion during human evolution, yet they remain largely unexplored. In this study, we combined single-nucleus measurements of gene expression and chromatin accessibility from six mammals (human, bonobo, macaque, marmoset, mouse, and opossum) to uncover conserved and diverged regulatory networks in cerebellum development. We identified core regulators of cell identity and developed sequence-based models that revealed conserved regulatory codes. By predicting chromatin accessibility across 240 mammalian species, we reconstructed the evolutionary histories of human cis-regulatory elements, identifying sets associated with positive selection and gene expression changes, including the recent gain of

Indexed as

Biological EvolutionCerebellumEvolution, MolecularGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGene Regulatory NetworksMammalsAnimalsChromatinHumansMiceChromatin

Identifiers

PMID41610256
PMCPMC7618896

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.