Commentary
Screening for genes that wire the cerebral cortex
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* Corresponding author: Sonia Garel garel@biologie.ens.fr
1 Ecole Normale Supérieure, Institut de Biologie de l'ENS, IBENS, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris cedex 05, France
2 INSERM, U1024, Avenir Team, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris cedex 05, France
3 CNRS, UMR 8197, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75230 Paris cedex 05, France
BMC Biology 2011, 9:1 doi:10.1186/1741-7007-9-1
Published: 7 January 2011Abstract
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.
See research article: http://www.neuraldevelopment.com/content/6/1/3/abstract webcite