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Author notes

1. Hyo Jung Kang, Yuka Imamura Kawasawa, Feng Cheng, Ying Zhu, Xuming Xu and Mingfeng Li: These authors contributed equally to this work.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Department of Neurobiology and Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, 06510, Connecticut, USA

   Hyo Jung Kang, Yuka Imamura Kawasawa, Feng Cheng, Ying Zhu, Xuming Xu, Mingfeng Li, André M. M. Sousa, Mihovil Pletikos, Kyle A. Meyer, Goran Sedmak, Yurae Shin, Matthew B. Johnson, Željka Krsnik, Simone Mayer, Sofia Fertuzinhos & Nenad Šestan

2. Graduate Program in Areas of Basic and Applied Biology, Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of Porto, 4099-003 Porto, Portugal,

   André M. M. Sousa

3. Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Croatian Institute for Brain Research, University of Zagreb School of Medicine, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia,

   Mihovil Pletikos & Goran Sedmak

4. Department of Biostatistics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, 23298, Virginia, USA

   Tobias Guennel & Mark Reimers

5. MSc/PhD Molecular Biology Program, International Max Planck Research School for Molecular Biology, 37077 Göttingen, Germany,

   Simone Mayer

6. Yale Center for Genome Analysis, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, 06510, Connecticut, USA

   Sheila Umlauf & Shrikant Mane

7. Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle University, International Centre for Life, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 3BZ, UK,

   Steven N. Lisgo

8. Department of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, 06510, Connecticut, USA

   Alexander Vortmeyer & Anita Huttner

9. Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 20892, Maryland, USA

   Daniel R. Weinberger, Thomas M. Hyde & Joel E. Kleinman

10. The Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Johns Hopkins University Medical Campus, Baltimore, 21205, Maryland, USA

    Thomas M. Hyde

Contributions

H.J.K., Y.I.K., A.M.M.S., M.P., K.A.M., G.S., Y.S., M.B.J., Z.K., S. Mayer, S.F., S.U., S. Mane and N.S. performed and analysed the experiments. F.C., Y.Z., X.X., M.L., T.G. and M.R. analysed the data. Z.K., A.M.M.S., M.P., G.S., S.N.L, A.V., D.R.W., T.M.H., A.H., J.E.K. and N.S. participated in tissue procurement and examination. N.S. designed the study and wrote the manuscript, which all authors commented and edited.

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Correspondence to Nenad Šestan.

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The authors declare no competing financial interests.

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Kang, H., Kawasawa, Y., Cheng, F. et al. Spatio-temporal transcriptome of the human brain. Nature 478, 483–489 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10523

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• Received: 11 December 2010

• Accepted: 30 August 2011

• Published: 26 October 2011

• Issue Date: 27 October 2011

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10523