Genetic dissection of neural development in health and disease at single cell resolution
Contreras X. 2020. Genetic dissection of neural development in health and disease at single cell resolution. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
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Mosaic genetic analysis has been widely used in different model organisms such as the fruit fly to study gene-function in a cell-autonomous or tissue-specific fashion. More recently, and less easily conducted, mosaic genetic analysis in mice has also been enabled with the ambition to shed light on human gene function and disease. These genetic tools are of particular interest, but not restricted to, the study of the brain. Notably, the MADM technology offers a genetic approach in mice to visualize and concomitantly manipulate small subsets of genetically defined cells at a clonal level and single cell resolution. MADM-based analysis has already advanced the study of genetic mechanisms regulating brain development and is expected that further MADM-based analysis of genetic alterations will continue to reveal important insights on the fundamental principles of development and disease to potentially assist in the development of new therapies or treatments.
In summary, this work completed and characterized the necessary genome-wide genetic tools to perform MADM-based analysis at single cell level of the vast majority of mouse genes in virtually any cell type and provided a protocol to perform lineage tracing using the novel MADM resource. Importantly, this work also explored and revealed novel aspects of biologically relevant events in an in vivo context, such as the chromosome-specific bias of chromatid sister segregation pattern, the generation of cell-type diversity in the cerebral cortex and in the cerebellum and finally, the relevance of the interplay between the cell-autonomous gene function and cell-non-autonomous (community) effects in radial glial progenitor lineage progression.
This work provides a foundation and opens the door to further elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying neuronal diversity and astrocyte generation.
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2020-06-05
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Institute of Science and Technology Austria
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Contreras X. Genetic dissection of neural development in health and disease at single cell resolution. 2020. doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:7902
Contreras, X. (2020). Genetic dissection of neural development in health and disease at single cell resolution. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:7902
Contreras, Ximena. “Genetic Dissection of Neural Development in Health and Disease at Single Cell Resolution.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2020. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:7902.
X. Contreras, “Genetic dissection of neural development in health and disease at single cell resolution,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2020.
Contreras X. 2020. Genetic dissection of neural development in health and disease at single cell resolution. Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
Contreras, Ximena. Genetic Dissection of Neural Development in Health and Disease at Single Cell Resolution. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2020, doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:7902.
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