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Conserved cell types with divergent features in human versus mouse cortex
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Elucidating the cellular architecture of the human cerebral cortex is central to understanding our cognitive abilities and susceptibility to disease. Here we used single-nucleus RNA-sequencing analysis to perform a comprehensive study of cell types in the middle temporal gyrus of human cortex. We identified a highly diverse set of excitatory and inhibitory neuron types that are mostly sparse, with excitatory types being less layer-restricted than expected. Comparison to similar mouse cortex single-cell RNA-sequencing datasets revealed a surprisingly well-conserved cellular architecture that enables matching of homologous types and predictions of properties of human cell types. Despite this general conservation, we also found extensive differences between homologous human and mouse cell types, including marked alterations in proportions, laminar distributions, gene expression and morphology. These species-specific features emphasize the importance of directly studying human brain.
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“As a third example of the great elaboration and specialization associated with consciousness, the more-advanced animal brains have the largest numbers of neuron types, with highly complex interactions (Strausfeld, 2012; Feinberg and Mallatt, 2016a; Hodge et al., 2019).”
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“nuclei were sorted using a standard gating strategy to exclude multiplets24”
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“8 out of 14 modules showed greater intra-module correlation than a comparable random gene set in the adult human brain dataset from Hodge et al (30) (Fig. 4B).”
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“In addition, multiplex FISH is already being used to measure the proportions of transcriptomic types within a given brain tissue (Hodge et al., 2019; Moffitt et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2020).”
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“Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) studies have systematically characterized and classified cell types in individual regions of isocortex and hippocampus”
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“The application of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to the neocortex and other brain regions has revealed a complex but tractable hierarchical organization of transcriptomic cell types that are consistent overall with knowledge from decades of anatomical, physiological and developmental studies but with an unmatched level of granularity7–11.”
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“Substantiating previous studies9,10, our multimodal cross-species study of the primary motor cortex suggests that a general principle of cortical cell-type organization is its hierarchical relationship, whereby high-level classes linked by major branches comprise progressively finer subpopulations connected by minor branches.”
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“Comparing human with mouse and non-human primates reveals both conserved and distinct cell type signatures, including species-specific differences in the proportions of cell populations and in gene expression within homologous cell classes and types (Bakken et al., 2020; Hodge et al., 2019; Krienen et al., 2020).”
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“Evolutionary conservation and divergence provide insight into the gene regulatory programs that were selected for their impact on cognitive function (Bakken et al., 2020; Hodge et al., 2019; Krienen et al., 2020).”
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“We observed numerous genes with categorical changes in cell-type-specific expression patterns (including NTNG1, IQGAP2 and TRPC3) and, in rare cases, genes that were a specific marker in one cell class in some species but not detected at all in the interneurons of the other species11”
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“which suggests that the genes that encode these markers stably delineate a core repertoire of neocortical interneuron types in these species11,15,18”
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“The expansion of this LAMP5+ LHX6+ cell type throughout the neocortex in diverse primates probably explains a recent observation11 that this cell type is much more abundant in the human temporal lobe than in the mouse V1.”
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“they obtained 45 human interneuron clusters, whereas our marmoset data resolved to 22 clusters”
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“However, in agreement with other reports11, these types were inconsistently observed across individual animals and regions, likely due to laminar location and low abundance, and were not analysed further.”
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- Authors
- Hodge, R. D., Bakken, T. E., Miller, J. A., Smith, K. A., Barkan, E. R., Graybuck, L. T., Close, J. L., Long, B., Johansen, N., Penn, O., Yao, Z., Eggermont, J., Höllt, T., Levi, B. P., Shehata, S. I., Aevermann, B., Beller, A., Bertagnolli, D., Brouner, K., Casper, T., Cobbs, C., Dalley, R., Dee, N., Ding, S.-L., Ellenbogen, R. G., Fong, O., Garren, E., Goldy, J., Gwinn, R. P., Hirschstein, D., Keene, C. D., Keshk, M., Ko, A. L., Lathia, K., Mahfouz, A., Maltzer, Z., McGraw, M., Nguyen, T. N., Nyhus, J., Ojemann, J. G., Oldre, A., Parry, S., Reynolds, S., Rimorin, C., Shapovalova, N. V., Somasundaram, S., Szafer, A., Thomsen, E. R., Tieu, M., Quon, G., Scheuermann, R. H., Yuste, R., Sunkin, S. M., Lelieveldt, B., Feng, D., Ng, L., Bernard, A., Hawrylycz, M., Phillips, J. W., Tasic, B., Zeng, H., Jones, A. R., Koch, C., & Lein, E. S.
- Affiliations
- Allen Institute for Brain Science (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- Leiden University Medical Center (NL)
- J. Craig Venter Institute (US)
- University of Washington (US)
- Swedish Medical Center (US)
- Columbia University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Lein, Ed S.
- ORCID
- Hodge, Rebecca D.
- Bakken, Trygve E.
- Miller, Jeremy A.
- Smith, Kimberly A.
- Barkan, Eliza R.
- Graybuck, Lucas T.
- Close, Jennie L.
- Long, Brian
- Johansen, Nelson
- Yao, Zizhen
- Eggermont, Jeroen
- Höllt, Thomas
- Levi, Boaz P.
- Shehata, Soraya I.
- Aevermann, Brian
- Beller, Allison
- Bertagnolli, Darren
- Brouner, Krissy
- Casper, Tamara
- Cobbs, Charles
- Dalley, Rachel
- Dee, Nick
- Ding, Song-Lin
- Ellenbogen, Richard G.
- Fong, Olivia
- Goldy, Jeff
- Gwinn, Ryder P.
- Hirschstein, Daniel
- Keene, C. Dirk
- Ko, Andrew L.
- Lathia, Kanan
- Mahfouz, Ahmed
- Maltzer, Zoe
- Nguyen, Thuc Nghi
- Nyhus, Julie
- Ojemann, Jeffrey G.
- Oldre, Aaron
- Rimorin, Christine
- Shapovalova, Nadiya V.
- Somasundaram, Saroja
- Szafer, Aaron
- Thomsen, Elliot R.
- Tieu, Michael
- Quon, Gerald
- Scheuermann, Richard H.
- Yuste, Rafael
- Sunkin, Susan M.
- Lelieveldt, Boudewijn
- Feng, David
- Ng, Lydia
- Bernard, Amy
- Hawrylycz, Michael
- Phillips, John W.
- Tasic, Bosiljka
- Zeng, Hongkui
- Lein, Ed S.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2019-08-21
- Volume
- 573
- Issue
- 7772
- Pages
- 61-68
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC6919571
- OpenAlex
- W2969948459
- Cited by
- 1,775
- References
- 89
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- 2026: 199 · 2025: 242 · 2024: 275 · 2023: 269 · 2022: 235 · 2021: 289 · 2020: 212 · 2019: 43
- FWCI
- 64.09
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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- Nature (publishedVersion)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
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- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Leiden Repository (Leiden University) (submittedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Washington
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (12720, 12721)
- National Institutes of Health (5u01mh114812-03, MH114812-02)
- National Institute of Mental Health (U01MH105982, U01MH114812, U19MH114830)
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM008497)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Developmental Neuroscience › Neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
- Keywords
- human cerebral cortex, middle temporal gyrus, cortical cell types, excitatory neurons, inhibitory neurons, single-nucleus RNA sequencing, human-mouse comparison, cortical laminar organization, species differences, neuronal morphology, gene expression
- MeSH terms
- RNA-Seq, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Animals, Astrocytes, Cerebral Cortex, Biological Evolution, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Neural Inhibition, Neurons, Species Specificity, Principal Component Analysis, Mice, Young Adult, Single-Cell Analysis, Transcriptome
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