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Expressing what's on your mind: DNA arrays and the brain

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Questions about brain function and disease are being addressed with parallel genomic approaches. High-density DNA arrays make it possible to monitor the expression levels of thousands of genes at a time, and are being used to address old questions in new ways and to generate new hypotheses about the workings of the brain.

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Figure 1: Gene expression differences between mouse brain regions.
Figure 2: Experimental design and reproducibility.
Figure 3: Of mouse and man.

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We would like to thank Jo A. Del Rio, Todd A. Carter, Cindy Doane, Rickard Sandberg, Dan Pankratz, Edward Callaway and members of the Barlow laboratory for their patience and help and Robert Vigorito of the Baltimore Maryland Brain Bank for assistance in sample acquisition.

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Lockhart, D., Barlow, C. Expressing what's on your mind: DNA arrays and the brain. Nat Rev Neurosci 2, 63–68 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35049070

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