Screening for genes that wire the cerebral cortex
Open Access
- 7 January 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Biology
- Vol. 9 (1) , 1
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-9-1
Abstract
Thalamocortical projections convey visual, somatosensory and auditory information to the cerebral cortex. A recent report in Neural Development shows how a forward genetic screen has enabled the identification of novel mutations affecting specific decision points of thalamocortical axon pathfinding.Keywords
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