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A transcriptional signature of hub connectivity in the mouse connectome

Ben D. Fulcher,A. Fornito

2016 · DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1513302113
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 201 Citations

TLDR

It is shown that the functionally important projections linking hub areas of the mouse brain have a distinct genetic signature that is characterized by the tightly coupled expression of genes regulating the synthesis and metabolism of ATP, the primary energy source for neural activity.