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Alex Pollen, PhD

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Title(s)Associate Professor, Neurology
SchoolSchool of Medicine
Address1651 4th Street, #481B
San Francisco CA 94158
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    Title(s)UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences


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    1. Dissecting gene regulatory networks governing human cortical cell fate. Nature. 2026 Jan 21. Ding JW, Kim CN, Ostrowski MS, Abeykoon Y, Pavlovic BJ, Wallace JL, Schaefer NK, Nowakowski TJ, Pollen AA. PMID: 41565813.
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    2. NPEPPS segmental duplication drives position effect expression of TBC1D3 in the human brain. bioRxiv. 2026 Jan 15. Guitart X, Brunner JW, Ren L, Jeong H, Yoo D, Porubsky D, Hoekzema K, Munson KM, Sun KA, Ayllon M, Hoglin K, McMullen R, Pavlovic B, Vollger MR, Pollen AA, Eichler EE. PMID: 41648143; PMCID: PMC12871316.
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    3. Author Correction: Conservation and alteration of mammalian striatal interneurons. Nature. 2026 Jan; 649(8096):E4. Corrigan EK, DeBerardine M, Poddar A, Turrero García M, de la O S, He S, Sen H, Duhne M, Lindberg S, Song M, Schmitz MT, Sears KE, Mallarino R, Berke JD, Harwell CC, Paredes MF, Krienen FM, Pollen AA. PMID: 41381770; PMCID: PMC12779558.
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    4. Rapid and repeated evolution of myosin copy number in threespine stickleback. bioRxiv. 2025 Dec 25. Yoxsimer AM, Daugherty RR, Hare EE, Chan YF, Jones FC, Kingman GAR, Offenberg EG, Howes TR, Zhang H, Pollen AA, Brady SD, Xie KT, Chen HI, Lowe CB, Au EH, Grimwood J, Schmutz J, Myers RM, Schluter D, Heins DC, Reyes ML, Baker JA, Jónsson B, Reimchen TE, Bell MA, Kingsley DM. PMID: 41509302; PMCID: PMC12776057.
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    5. Mapping cis- and trans-regulatory target genes of human-specific deletions. Nat Commun. 2025 Dec 20; 16(1):11380. Fair T, Pavlovic BJ, Swope D, Castillo OE, Schaefer NK, Pollen AA. PMID: 41422267; PMCID: PMC12727812.
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    6. Interrogating the Regulatory Function of HAQERs during Human Cortical Development. bioRxiv. 2025 Dec 01. Abeykoon Y, Dzikowski N, Luo Y, Sinniah E, Weaver S, Pavlovic BJ, Wallace JL, Mangan RJ, Lowe CB, Pollen AA. PMID: 41377512; PMCID: PMC12687773.
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    7. The new frontier in understanding human and mammalian brain development. Nature. 2025 Nov; 647(8088):51-59. Nowakowski TJ, Nano PR, Matho KS, Chen X, Corrigan EK, Ding W, Gao Y, Heffel M, Jayakumar J, Kaplan HS, Kronman FN, Kovner R, Mannens CCA, Song M, Steyert MR, Venkatesan S, Wallace JL, Wang L, Werner JM, Zhang D, Yuan G, Zuo G, Ament SA, Colantuoni C, Dulac C, Fan R, Gillis J, Kriegstein AR, Krienen FM, Kim Y, Linnarsson S, Mitra PP, Pollen AA, Sestan N, Tward DJ, van Velthoven CTJ, Yao Z, Bhaduri A, Zeng H. PMID: 41193845.
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    8. Conservation and alteration of mammalian striatal interneurons. Nature. 2025 Nov; 647(8088):187-193. Corrigan EK, DeBerardine M, Poddar A, Turrero García M, de la O S, He S, Sen H, Duhne M, Lindberg S, Song M, Schmitz MT, Sears KE, Mallarino R, Berke JD, Harwell CC, Paredes MF, Krienen FM, Pollen AA. PMID: 41193841; PMCID: PMC12589139.
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    9. Accelerated Tempo of Cortical Neurogenesis in Down Syndrome. bioRxiv. 2025 Sep 29. Ding JW, Kim CN, Steyert MR, Yuan AT, Shin D, Ivanov D, Nowakowski TJ, Pollen AA. PMID: 41256555; PMCID: PMC12621896.
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    10. Dissecting Gene Regulatory Networks Governing Human Cortical Cell Fate. bioRxiv. 2025 Sep 23. Ding JW, Kim CN, Ostrowski MS, Abeykoon Y, Pavlovic BJ, Wallace JL, Nowakowski TJ, Pollen AA. PMID: 41040362; PMCID: PMC12485932.
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    11. Interspecies Organoids Reveal Human-Specific Molecular Features of Dopaminergic Neuron Development and Vulnerability. bioRxiv. 2025 Aug 28. Nolbrant S, Wallace JL, Ding JW, Zhu T, Sevetson JL, Kajtez J, Baldacci IA, Corrigan EK, Hoglin K, McMullen R, Ostrowski MS, Schmitz MT, Breevoort A, Swope D, Wu F, Pavlovic BJ, Salama SR, Kirkeby A, Huang H, Schaefer NK, Pollen AA. PMID: 39605599; PMCID: PMC11601475.
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    12. Fate plasticity of interneuron specification. iScience. 2025 Apr 18; 28(4):112295. Mostajo-Radji MA, Leon WRM, Breevoort A, Gonzalez-Ferrer J, Schweiger HE, Lehrer J, Zhou L, Schmitz MT, Perez Y, Mukhtar T, Robbins A, Chu J, Andrews MG, Sullivan FN, Tejera D, Choy EC, Paredes MF, Teodorescu M, Kriegstein AR, Alvarez-Buylla A, Pollen AA. PMID: 40264797; PMCID: PMC12013500.
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    13. CellBouncer, A Unified Toolkit for Single-Cell Demultiplexing and Ambient RNA Analysis, Reveals Hominid Mitochondrial Incompatibilities. bioRxiv. 2025 Mar 23. Schaefer NK, Pavlovic BJ, Pollen AA. PMID: 40166335; PMCID: PMC11957168.
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    14. Comparative characterization of human accelerated regions in neurons. Nature. 2025 Apr; 640(8060):991-999. Cui X, Yang H, Cai C, Beaman C, Yang X, Liu H, Ren X, Amador Z, Jones IR, Keough KC, Zhang M, Fair T, Abnousi A, Mishra S, Ye Z, Hu M, Pollen AA, Pollard KS, Shen Y. PMID: 40011774; PMCID: PMC12369545.
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    15. Editorial overview: Peering into our history through a genetic lens: How advances in genetics are changing our understanding of human evolution. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2025 Jun; 92:102326. Stein JL, Pollen AA. PMID: 39999542.
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    16. Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience. Nat Neurosci. 2024 Dec; 27(12):2310-2325. Colonna M, Konopka G, Liddelow SA, Nowakowski T, Awatramani R, Bateup HS, Cadwell CR, Caglayan E, Chen JL, Gillis J, Kampmann M, Krienen F, Marsh SE, Monje M, O'Dea MR, Patani R, Pollen AA, Quintana FJ, Scavuzzo M, Schmitz M, Sloan SA, Tesar PJ, Tollkuhn J, Tosches MA, Urbanek ME, Werner JM, Bayraktar OA, Gokce O, Habib N. PMID: 39627589.
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    17. Mapping cis- and trans-regulatory target genes of human-specific deletions. bioRxiv. 2024 Dec 01. Fair T, Pavlovic BJ, Swope D, Castillo OE, Schaefer NK, Pollen AA. PMID: 38234800; PMCID: PMC10793408.
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    18. Rev or restrain: Mechanisms of human-specific synaptic neoteny. Neuron. 2024 Nov 06; 112(21):3519-3521. Wallace JL, Pollen AA. PMID: 39510039.
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    19. Conservation, alteration, and redistribution of mammalian striatal interneurons. bioRxiv. 2024 Jul 29. Corrigan EK, DeBerardine M, Poddar A, Turrero García M, Schmitz MT, Harwell CC, Paredes MF, Krienen FM, Pollen AA. PMID: 39131311; PMCID: PMC11312536.
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    20. Massively parallel characterization of regulatory elements in the developing human cortex. Science. 2024 05 24; 384(6698):eadh0559. Deng C, Whalen S, Steyert M, Ziffra R, Przytycki PF, Inoue F, Pereira DA, Capauto D, Norton S, Vaccarino FM, PsychENCODE Consortium‡, Pollen AA, Nowakowski TJ, Ahituv N, Pollard KS, PsychENCODE Consortium. PMID: 38781390; PMCID: PMC12085231.
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    21. Structurally divergent and recurrently mutated regions of primate genomes. Cell. 2024 Mar 14; 187(6):1547-1562.e13. Mao Y, Harvey WT, Porubsky D, Munson KM, Hoekzema K, Lewis AP, Audano PA, Rozanski A, Yang X, Zhang S, Yoo D, Gordon DS, Fair T, Wei X, Logsdon GA, Haukness M, Dishuck PC, Jeong H, Del Rosario R, Bauer VL, Fattor WT, Wilkerson GK, Mao Y, Shi Y, Sun Q, Lu Q, Paten B, Bakken TE, Pollen AA, Feng G, Sawyer SL, Warren WC, Carbone L, Eichler EE. PMID: 38428424; PMCID: PMC10947866.
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    22. Thalamocortical organoids enable in vitro modeling of 22q11.2 microdeletion associated with neuropsychiatric disorders. Cell Stem Cell. 2024 03 07; 31(3):421-432.e8. Shin D, Kim CN, Ross J, Hennick KM, Wu SR, Paranjape N, Leonard R, Wang JC, Keefe MG, Pavlovic BJ, Donohue KC, Moreau C, Wigdor EM, Larson HH, Allen DE, Cadwell CR, Bhaduri A, Popova G, Bearden CE, Pollen AA, Jacquemont S, Sanders SJ, Haussler D, Wiita AP, Frost NA, Sohal VS, Nowakowski TJ. PMID: 38382530; PMCID: PMC10939828.
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    23. Human neuronal maturation comes of age: cellular mechanisms and species differences. Nat Rev Neurosci. 2024 Jan; 25(1):7-29. Wallace JL, Pollen AA. PMID: 37996703.
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    24. A cross-species proteomic map reveals neoteny of human synapse development. Nature. 2023 10; 622(7981):112-119. Wang L, Pang K, Zhou L, Cebrián-Silla A, González-Granero S, Wang S, Bi Q, White ML, Ho B, Li J, Li T, Perez Y, Huang EJ, Winkler EA, Paredes MF, Kovner R, Sestan N, Pollen AA, Liu P, Li J, Piao X, García-Verdugo JM, Alvarez-Buylla A, Liu Z, Kriegstein AR. PMID: 37704727; PMCID: PMC10576238.
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    25. Comparative landscape of genetic dependencies in human and chimpanzee stem cells. Cell. 2023 07 06; 186(14):2977-2994.e23. She R, Fair T, Schaefer NK, Saunders RA, Pavlovic BJ, Weissman JS, Pollen AA. PMID: 37343560; PMCID: PMC10461406.
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    26. Three-dimensional genome rewiring in loci with human accelerated regions. Science. 2023 04 28; 380(6643):eabm1696. Keough KC, Whalen S, Inoue F, Przytycki PF, Fair T, Deng C, Steyert M, Ryu H, Lindblad-Toh K, Karlsson E, Zoonomia Consortium§, Nowakowski T, Ahituv N, Pollen A, Pollard KS. PMID: 37104607; PMCID: PMC10999243.
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    27. Genetic architecture of human brain evolution. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2023 06; 80:102710. Fair T, Pollen AA. PMID: 37003107.
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    28. Comparative landscape of genetic dependencies in human and chimpanzee stem cells. bioRxiv. 2023 Mar 20. She R, Fair T, Schaefer NK, Saunders RA, Pavlovic BJ, Weissman JS, Pollen AA. PMID: 36993685; PMCID: PMC10055274.
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    29. Massively parallel characterization of psychiatric disorder-associated and cell-type-specific regulatory elements in the developing human cortex. bioRxiv. 2023 Feb 16. Deng C, Whalen S, Steyert M, Ziffra R, Przytycki PF, Inoue F, Pereira DA, Capauto D, Norton S, Vaccarino FM, Pollen A, Nowakowski TJ, Ahituv N, Pollard KS. PMID: 36824845; PMCID: PMC9949039.
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    30. Human-specific genetics: new tools to explore the molecular and cellular basis of human evolution. Nat Rev Genet. 2023 10; 24(10):687-711. Pollen AA, Kilik U, Lowe CB, Camp JG. PMID: 36737647; PMCID: PMC9897628.
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    31. Machine learning dissection of human accelerated regions in primate neurodevelopment. Neuron. 2023 03 15; 111(6):857-873.e8. Whalen S, Inoue F, Ryu H, Fair T, Markenscoff-Papadimitriou E, Keough K, Kircher M, Martin B, Alvarado B, Elor O, Laboy Cintron D, Williams A, Hassan Samee MA, Thomas S, Krencik R, Ullian EM, Kriegstein A, Rubenstein JL, Shendure J, Pollen AA, Ahituv N, Pollard KS. PMID: 36640767; PMCID: PMC10023452.
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    32. IoT cloud laboratory: Internet of Things architecture for cellular biology. Internet Things (Amst). 2022 Nov; 20. Parks DF, Voitiuk K, Geng J, Elliott MAT, Keefe MG, Jung EA, Robbins A, Baudin PV, Ly VT, Hawthorne N, Yong D, Sanso SE, Rezaee N, Sevetson JL, Seiler ST, Currie R, Pollen AA, Hengen KB, Nowakowski TJ, Mostajo-Radji MA, Salama SR, Teodorescu M, Haussler D. PMID: 37383277; PMCID: PMC10305744.
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    33. Filling an ARHGAP in our knowledge of human brain evolution. EMBO Rep. 2022 11 07; 23(11):e56076. Ding J, Pollen AA. PMID: 36161459; PMCID: PMC9638863.
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    34. Tropism of SARS-CoV-2 for human cortical astrocytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2022 07 26; 119(30):e2122236119. Andrews MG, Mukhtar T, Eze UC, Simoneau CR, Ross J, Parikshak N, Wang S, Zhou L, Koontz M, Velmeshev D, Siebert CV, Gemenes KM, Tabata T, Perez Y, Wang L, Mostajo-Radji MA, de Majo M, Donohue KC, Shin D, Salma J, Pollen AA, Nowakowski TJ, Ullian E, Kumar GR, Winkler EA, Crouch EE, Ott M, Kriegstein AR. PMID: 35858406; PMCID: PMC9335272.
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    35. The development and evolution of inhibitory neurons in primate cerebrum. Nature. 2022 03; 603(7903):871-877. Schmitz MT, Sandoval K, Chen CP, Mostajo-Radji MA, Seeley WW, Nowakowski TJ, Ye CJ, Paredes MF, Pollen AA. PMID: 35322231; PMCID: PMC8967711.
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    36. Rethinking nomenclature for interspecies cell fusions. Nat Rev Genet. 2022 05; 23(5):315-320. Pavlovic BJ, Fox D, Schaefer NK, Pollen AA. PMID: 35082442.
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    37. UCSC Cell Browser: visualize your single-cell data. Bioinformatics. 2021 12 07; 37(23):4578-4580. Speir ML, Bhaduri A, Markov NS, Moreno P, Nowakowski TJ, Papatheodorou I, Pollen AA, Raney BJ, Seninge L, Kent WJ, Haeussler M. PMID: 34244710; PMCID: PMC8652023.
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    38. Light-weight electrophysiology hardware and software platform for cloud-based neural recording experiments. J Neural Eng. 2021 11 12; 18(6). Voitiuk K, Geng J, Keefe MG, Parks DF, Sanso SE, Hawthorne N, Freeman DB, Currie R, Mostajo-Radji MA, Pollen AA, Nowakowski TJ, Salama SR, Teodorescu M, Haussler D. PMID: 34666315; PMCID: PMC8667733.
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    39. Picroscope: low-cost system for simultaneous longitudinal biological imaging. Commun Biol. 2021 11 04; 4(1):1261. Ly VT, Baudin PV, Pansodtee P, Jung EA, Voitiuk K, Rosen YM, Willsey HR, Mantalas GL, Seiler ST, Selberg JA, Cordero SA, Ross JM, Rolandi M, Pollen AA, Nowakowski TJ, Haussler D, Mostajo-Radji MA, Salama SR, Teodorescu M. PMID: 34737378; PMCID: PMC8569150.
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    40. The genetic symphony underlying evolution of the brain's prefrontal cortex. Nature. 2021 10; 598(7881):417-418. Wallace JL, Pollen AA. PMID: 34588642.
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    41. Distinct nuclear compartment-associated genome architecture in the developing mammalian brain. Nat Neurosci. 2021 09; 24(9):1235-1242. Ahanger SH, Delgado RN, Gil E, Cole MA, Zhao J, Hong SJ, Kriegstein AR, Nowakowski TJ, Pollen AA, Lim DA. PMID: 34239128; PMCID: PMC8410652.
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    42. Tropism of SARS-CoV-2 for Developing Human Cortical Astrocytes. bioRxiv. 2021 Jan 18. Andrews MG, Mukhtar T, Eze UC, Simoneau CR, Perez Y, Mostajo-Radji MA, Wang S, Velmeshev D, Salma J, Kumar GR, Pollen AA, Crouch EE, Ott M, Kriegstein AR. PMID: 33469577; PMCID: PMC7814814.
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    43. Cell-type-specific 3D epigenomes in the developing human cortex. Nature. 2020 11; 587(7835):644-649. Song M, Pebworth MP, Yang X, Abnousi A, Fan C, Wen J, Rosen JD, Choudhary MNK, Cui X, Jones IR, Bergenholtz S, Eze UC, Juric I, Li B, Maliskova L, Lee J, Liu W, Pollen AA, Li Y, Wang T, Hu M, Kriegstein AR, Shen Y. PMID: 33057195; PMCID: PMC7704572.
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    44. Direct analysis of brain phenotypes via neural blastocyst complementation. Nat Protoc. 2020 10; 15(10):3154-3181. Dai HQ, Liang Z, Chang AN, Chapdelaine-Williams AM, Alvarado B, Pollen AA, Alt FW, Schwer B. PMID: 32778838; PMCID: PMC7685531.
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    45. Recurrent inversion toggling and great ape genome evolution. Nat Genet. 2020 08; 52(8):849-858. Porubsky D, Sanders AD, Höps W, Hsieh P, Sulovari A, Li R, Mercuri L, Sorensen M, Murali SC, Gordon D, Cantsilieris S, Pollen AA, Ventura M, Antonacci F, Marschall T, Korbel JO, Eichler EE. PMID: 32541924; PMCID: PMC7415573.
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    46. Cell stress in cortical organoids impairs molecular subtype specification. Nature. 2020 02; 578(7793):142-148. Bhaduri A, Andrews MG, Mancia Leon W, Jung D, Shin D, Allen D, Jung D, Schmunk G, Haeussler M, Salma J, Pollen AA, Nowakowski TJ, Kriegstein AR. PMID: 31996853; PMCID: PMC7433012.
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    47. Reverse engineering human brain evolution using organoid models. Brain Res. 2020 02 15; 1729:146582. Mostajo-Radji MA, Schmitz MT, Montoya ST, Pollen AA. PMID: 31809699; PMCID: PMC7058376.
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    48. Human-specific tandem repeat expansion and differential gene expression during primate evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 11 12; 116(46):23243-23253. Sulovari A, Li R, Audano PA, Porubsky D, Vollger MR, Logsdon GA, Human Genome Structural Variation Consortium, Warren WC, Pollen AA, Chaisson MJP, Eichler EE. PMID: 31659027; PMCID: PMC6859368.
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    49. Getting to the heart of cardiovascular evolution in humans. Elife. 2019 05 28; 8. Pollen A, Pavlovic BJ. PMID: 31135336; PMCID: PMC6538371.
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    50. Paired involvement of human-specific Olduvai domains and NOTCH2NL genes in human brain evolution. Hum Genet. 2019 Jul; 138(7):715-721. Fiddes IT, Pollen AA, Davis JM, Sikela JM. PMID: 31087184; PMCID: PMC6611739.
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    51. Multimodal Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Physiological Maturation in the Developing Human Neocortex. Neuron. 2019 04 03; 102(1):143-158.e7. Mayer S, Chen J, Velmeshev D, Mayer A, Eze UC, Bhaduri A, Cunha CE, Jung D, Arjun A, Li E, Alvarado B, Wang S, Lovegren N, Gonzales ML, Szpankowski L, Leyrat A, West JAA, Panagiotakos G, Alvarez-Buylla A, Paredes MF, Nowakowski TJ, Pollen AA, Kriegstein AR. PMID: 30770253; PMCID: PMC7648658.
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    52. Establishing Cerebral Organoids as Models of Human-Specific Brain Evolution. Cell. 2019 02 07; 176(4):743-756.e17. Pollen AA, Bhaduri A, Andrews MG, Nowakowski TJ, Meyerson OS, Mostajo-Radji MA, Di Lullo E, Alvarado B, Bedolli M, Dougherty ML, Fiddes IT, Kronenberg ZN, Shuga J, Leyrat AA, West JA, Bershteyn M, Lowe CB, Pavlovic BJ, Salama SR, Haussler D, Eichler EE, Kriegstein AR. PMID: 30735633; PMCID: PMC6544371.
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    53. Physiological Models of Human Neuronal Development and Disease. Neuron. 2018 12 05; 100(5):1025-1027. Mostajo-Radji MA, Pollen AA. PMID: 30521777.
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    54. Regulation of cell-type-specific transcriptomes by microRNA networks during human brain development. Nat Neurosci. 2018 12; 21(12):1784-1792. Nowakowski TJ, Rani N, Golkaram M, Zhou HR, Alvarado B, Huch K, West JA, Leyrat A, Pollen AA, Kriegstein AR, Petzold LR, Kosik KS. PMID: 30455455; PMCID: PMC6312854.
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    55. Identification of cell types in a mouse brain single-cell atlas using low sampling coverage. BMC Biol. 2018 10 11; 16(1):113. Bhaduri A, Nowakowski TJ, Pollen AA, Kriegstein AR. PMID: 30309354; PMCID: PMC6180488.
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    56. Transcriptional fates of human-specific segmental duplications in brain. Genome Res. 2018 10; 28(10):1566-1576. Dougherty ML, Underwood JG, Nelson BJ, Tseng E, Munson KM, Penn O, Nowakowski TJ, Pollen AA, Eichler EE. PMID: 30228200; PMCID: PMC6169893.
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    57. Postmitotic Fate Refinement in the Subplate. Cell Stem Cell. 2018 07 05; 23(1):7-9. Mostajo-Radji MA, Pollen AA. PMID: 29979992.
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    58. High-resolution comparative analysis of great ape genomes. Science. 2018 06 08; 360(6393). Kronenberg ZN, Fiddes IT, Gordon D, Murali S, Cantsilieris S, Meyerson OS, Underwood JG, Nelson BJ, Chaisson MJP, Dougherty ML, Munson KM, Hastie AR, Diekhans M, Hormozdiari F, Lorusso N, Hoekzema K, Qiu R, Clark K, Raja A, Welch AE, Sorensen M, Baker C, Fulton RS, Armstrong J, Graves-Lindsay TA, Denli AM, Hoppe ER, Hsieh P, Hill CM, Pang AWC, Lee J, Lam ET, Dutcher SK, Gage FH, Warren WC, Shendure J, Haussler D, Schneider VA, Cao H, Ventura M, Wilson RK, Paten B, Pollen A, Eichler EE. PMID: 29880660; PMCID: PMC6178954.
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