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2023
She, R., Fair, T., et al. Comparative landscape of genetic dependencies in human and chimpanzee stem cells. Cell 186, 2977-2994.e23 (2023).
​2022
Schmitz, M.T., et al. The development and evolution of inhibitory neurons in primate cerebrum. Nature 603, 871–877 (2022)
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2019
Pollen, A.A. et al. Establishing Cerebral Organoids as Models of Human-Specific Brain Evolution. Cell 176, 743-756 (2019).
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2018
Kronenberg Z.N. et al., High-resolution comparative analysis of great ape genomes. Science 360, pii: eaar6343 (2018).
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2017
Nowakowski T.N. et al., Spatiotemporal gene expression trajectories reveal developmental hierarchies of the human cortex. Science 358, 1318-1323 (2017).
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2015
Pollen, A.A. et al. Molecular identity of human outer radial glia during cortical development. Cell 163, 55-67 (2015).
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2014
Pollen, A.A. et al. Low-coverage single-cell mRNA sequencing reveals cellular heterogeneity and activated signaling pathways in developing cerebral cortex. Nature Biotechnology 32, 1053-8 (2014).
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2011
McLean C.Y. et al., Human-specific loss of regulatory DNA and the evolution of human-specific traits. Nature 471, 216-9 (2011).
2023
Wallace, J.L., Pollen, A.A. Human neuronal maturation comes of age: cellular mechanisms and species differences​. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. (2023).
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Fair, T., and Pollen, A.A. Genetic architecture of human brain evolution. Current opinion in neurobiology 80, 102710 (2023).
Pollen, A.A. et al. Human-specific genetics: new tools to explore the molecular and cellular basis of human evolution. Nature reviews. Genetics 24, 687-711 (2023).
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