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Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain
Abstract
Molecular approaches to understanding the functional circuitry of the nervous system promise new insights into the relationship between genes, brain and behaviour. The cellular diversity of the brain necessitates a cellular resolution approach towards understanding the functional genomics of the nervous system. We describe here an anatomically comprehensive digital atlas containing the expression patterns of approximately 20,000 genes in the adult mouse brain. Data were generated using automated high-throughput procedures for in situ hybridization and data acquisition, and are publicly accessible online. Newly developed image-based informatics tools allow global genome-scale structural analysis and cross-correlation, as well as identification of regionally enriched genes. Unbiased fine-resolution analysis has identified highly specific cellular markers as well as extensive evidence of cellular heterogeneity not evident in classical neuroanatomical atlases. This highly standardized atlas provides an open, primary data resource for a wide variety of further studies concerning brain organization and function.
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“In order to independently validate our findings about the spatial distribution of astrocytes (Figure S5C), we analyzed in situ hybridization images of marker genes obtained from the Allen Mouse Brain Atlas”
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“Allen Brain Atlas in situ hybridization data [24] show ATF3 expression only in granular neurons of the olfactory bulb and dentate gyrus”
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“Further in situ hybridization reveals that cerebellar Purkinje cells and neurons of the deep cerebellar nuclei express high levels of Clec16a (Allen Mouse Brain Atlas, http://mouse.brain-map.org/gene/show/50215)242526.”
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“In animal studies (rodents and non-human primates), this is feasible through the use of comprehensive, histologically and functionally defined whole-brain areal parcellations (Bezgin et al., 2012; Lein et al., 2007; Paxinos et al., 2000; Saleem and Logothetis, 2007; Swanson, 2015; Van Essen et al., 2012).”
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“ApoE expression, in both mice and humans, begins relatively late in development [46, 47].”
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“To complement and validate the microarray data, several targeted, large-scale in situ hybridization (ISH) data sets were generated using a high-throughput ISH platform1, 8.”
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“In rodents, brain- and transcriptome-wide, cellular-resolution maps of transcript distributions are widely useful resources to complement genomic sequence data1, 2, 3.”
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“consistent with the percentage of genes expressed in mouse brain by ISH (80%; ref. 1) and fetal human brain by microarrays (76%; ref. 11).”
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“expression in human differs from that in mouse (Fig. 5d) and rhesus monkey (Fig. 5e), where CALB1 is robustly expressed in CA1 and CA2 in addition to dentate gyrus.”
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“The atlas of the mid-gestational human brain described here, part of the BrainSpan Atlas of the Developing Human Brain, builds on digital molecular brain atlasing efforts in mouse20,22,24 and adult human23 by providing transcriptome resources on prenatal specimens typically inaccessible for research.”
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“The distribution of specific markers ( Pcp4 and Slc17a7 ) captured by Stereo-seq exhibited the expected similarity to in situ hybridization (ISH) data taken from Allen Brain Atlas (ABA) (Lein et al., 2007) and clearer patterns than HDST (Vickovic et al., 2019) or Slide-seqV2-resolved (Stickels et al., 2021) expression data (Figure S1E).”
From Spatiotemporal transcriptomic atlas of mouse organogenesis using DNA nanoball-patterned arrays (2022) · cites this paper as Lein et al., 2007
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“The expression patterns of Hes1 and Hes5 are consistent with ISH images taken from ABA (Figure S7H) (Lein et al., 2007).”
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“These results are in line with ISH images of the Rspo1 and Fgf15 taken from ABA (Lein et al., 2007) (Figure S7F).”
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“The expression patterns of Erbb4 and Gad2 are consistent with ISH images taken from ABA (Lein et al., 2007) (Figure S6F).”
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“Finally, we compared all marker genes that we highlight in this paper (those in Table 1 and all figures) to their patterns in a recent spatial transcriptomics analysis of the spinal cord28 and to the Allen29 and Gensat30 expression databases and found general concordance between these resources (Supplementary Table 4).”
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“Initial clustering identified 106,728 neurons, of which 70.2% were localized to BNST by examination of marker expression in the Allen Brain Atlas (ABA) (Lein et al., 2007) (Figure S3B).”
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“In situ hybridization and microarray data, for example the Allen Brain Atlases (Hawrylycz et al., 2012; Lein et al., 2007), have also established that mRNA transcripts encoding these five NPPs and that many other NPPs and NP-GPCR genes are expressed differentially in many brain regions.”
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“Inspection of ISHs from the Allen Brain Atlas (Lein et al., 2007) indicated that these neurons were located in the Edinger-Westphal nucleus, which is adjacent to the DRN, confirming that our dissection region spanned most of the DRN along the anterior-posterior axis.”
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“We leveraged the inclusion of adjacent brain tissue in our atlas to map the boundary between the 3V ChP and developing pineal gland using published ISH (Lein et al., 2007; Visel et al., 2004) of marker genes from our data (Figure S2C).”
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“Signature scores were distinctly elevated in areas corresponding to the anatomical structures annotated in the Allen brain reference atlas (Figure S3A) (Lein et al., 2007).”
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- Authors
- Lein, E. S., Hawrylycz, M. J., Ao, N., Ayres, M., Bensinger, A., Bernard, A., Boe, A. F., Boguski, M. S., Brockway, K. S., Byrnes, E. J., Chen, L., Chen, L., Chen, T.-M., Chi Chin, M., Chong, J., Crook, B. E., Czaplinska, A., Dang, C. N., Datta, S., Dee, N. R., Desaki, A. L., Desta, T., Diep, E., Dolbeare, T. A., Donelan, M. J., Dong, H.-W., Dougherty, J. G., Duncan, B. J., Ebbert, A. J., Eichele, G., Estin, L. K., Faber, C., Facer, B. A., Fields, R., Fischer, S. R., Fliss, T. P., Frensley, C., Gates, S. N., Glattfelder, K. J., Halverson, K. R., Hart, M. R., Hohmann, J. G., Howell, M. P., Jeung, D. P., Johnson, R. A., Karr, P. T., Kawal, R., Kidney, J. M., Knapik, R. H., Kuan, C. L., Lake, J. H., Laramee, A. R., Larsen, K. D., Lau, C., Lemon, T. A., Liang, A. J., Liu, Y., Luong, L. T., Michaels, J., Morgan, J. J., Morgan, R. J., Mortrud, M. T., Mosqueda, N. F., Ng, L. L., Ng, R., Orta, G. J., Overly, C. C., Pak, T. H., Parry, S. E., Pathak, S. D., Pearson, O. C., Puchalski, R. B., Riley, Z. L., Rockett, H. R., Rowland, S. A., Royall, J. J., Ruiz, M. J., Sarno, N. R., Schaffnit, K., Shapovalova, N. V., Sivisay, T., Slaughterbeck, C. R., Smith, S. C., Smith, K. A., Smith, B. I., Sodt, A. J., Stewart, N. N., Stumpf, K.-R., Sunkin, S. M., Sutram, M., Tam, A., Teemer, C. D., Thaller, C., Thompson, C. L., Varnam, L. R., Visel, A., Whitlock, R. M., Wohnoutka, P. E., Wolkey, C. K., Wong, V. Y., Wood, M., Yaylaoglu, M. B., Young, R. C., Youngstrom, B. L., Feng Yuan, X., Zhang, B., Zwingman, T. A., & Jones, A. R.
- Affiliations
- Allen Institute for Brain Science (US)
- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- Novartis (Switzerland) (CH)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lein, Ed S.
- Jones, Allan R.
- ORCID
- Lein, Ed S.
- Hawrylycz, Michael J.
- Bernard, Amy
- Chen, Lin
- Chong, Jimmy
- Dee, Nick R.
- Desta, Tsega
- Dolbeare, Tim A.
- Dong, Hong-Wei
- Fliss, Tim P.
- Glattfelder, Katie J.
- Hart, Matthew R.
- Hohmann, John G.
- Liu, Ying
- Ng, Lydia L.
- Puchalski, Ralph B.
- Shapovalova, Nadiya V.
- Smith, Kimberly A.
- Sunkin, Susan M.
- Thompson, Carol L.
- Visel, Axel
- Wohnoutka, Paul E.
- Wood, Matthew
- Zhang, Bin
- Zwingman, Theresa A.
- Jones, Allan R.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2006-12-06
- Volume
- 445
- Issue
- 7124
- Pages
- 168-176
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2123491442
- Cited by
- 5,572
- References
- 58
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- FWCI
- 68.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (submittedVersion)
- Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
- MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gene expression and cancer classification
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
- Keywords
- gene expression atlas, mouse brain, Allen Brain Atlas, cellular resolution, in situ hybridization, brain region-specific gene expression, cell markers, brain organization
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Brain, Gene Expression Regulation, Hippocampus, Male, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Organ Specificity, RNA, Messenger, Genome, Computational Biology, Gene Expression Profiling, Genomics, Mice
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