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Modeling human brain evolution using induced pluripotent stem cells: comparative analysis of neuronal development in humans and chimpanzees


ABSTRACT: Understanding evolutionary mechanisms underlying expansion and reorganization of the human brain represents an important aspect in analyzing the emergence of cognitive abilities typical of our species. Comparative analyses of neuronal phenotypes in closest living relatives (Pan troglodytes; the common chimpanzee) can shed the light into changes in neuronal morphology compared to the last common ancestor (LCA), opening possibilities for analyses of the timing of their appearance, and the role of evolutionary mechanisms favoring a particular type of information processing in humans. Here, we use induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology to model neural progenitor cell migration and early development of cortical pyramidal neurons in humans and chimpanzees. In addition, we provide morphological characterization of the early stages of neuronal development in human and chimpanzee transplanted cells, and examine the role of developmental mechanisms previously proposed for the evolutionary expansions of the human brain on the early development of pyramidal neurons in the two species. The strategy proposed here lay down the basis for further comparative analysis between human and non-human primates and opens new avenues for understanding cognitive capability and neurological disease susceptibility differences between species. PolyA RNA-Seq profiling of neural progenitor cells (NPCs) and neurons differentiated from human and chimpanzee iPSCs.

ORGANISM(S): Pan troglodytes

SUBMITTER: Inigo Narvaiza 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-83638 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Genetic differences that specify unique aspects of human evolution have typically been identified by comparative analyses between the genomes of humans and closely related primates, including more recently the genomes of archaic hominins. Not all regions of the genome, however, are equally amenable to such study. Recurrent copy number variation (CNV) at chromosome 16p11.2 accounts for approximately 1% of cases of autism and is mediated by a complex set of segmental duplications, many of which ar  ...[more]

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