Molecular and cellular changes underlying evolutionary specializations of primate dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
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ABSTRACT: The granular dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) is an evolutionary specialization of primates that is centrally involved in cognition. Here, we assessed over 600,000 single-nucleus transcriptomes from human, chimpanzee, macaque, and marmoset dlPFC. While major subclasses of transcriptomically-defined cell subtypes are conserved, we detected several subtypes only in some species and substantial species-specific molecular differences across homologous neuronal, glial and non-neural subtypes. The latter are exemplified by human-specific switching between translation of the neuropeptide somatostatin (SST) and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), the rate-limiting enzyme in dopamine production, in certain interneurons, and also by expression of the neuropsychiatric risk gene FOXP2, which is human-specific in microglia and primate-specific in layer-4 granular neurons. We generated a comprehensive transcriptomic and cellular survey of dlPFC evolution in anthropoid primates.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE206994 | GEO | 2022/08/25
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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