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A network of genetic repression and derepression specifies projection fates in the developing neocortex.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 20 Nov 2012
Srinivasan Karpagam, Leone Dino P, Bateson Rosalie K, Dobreva Gergana, Kohwi Yoshinori, Kohwi-Shigematsu Terumi, Grosschedl Rudolf, McConnell Susan K
Abstract excerpt
Neurons within each layer in the mammalian cortex have stereotypic projections. Four genes-Fezf2, Ctip2, Tbr1, and Satb2-regulate these projection identities. These genes also interact with each other, and it is unclear how these interactions shape the final projection identity. Here we show, by generating double mutants of Fezf2, Ctip2, and Satb2, that cortical neurons deploy a complex genetic switch that uses...
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