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Tietze E, Barbosa AR, Araujo B, Euclydes V, Spiegelberg B, Cho HJ, Lee YK, Wang Y, McCord A, Lorenzetti A, Feltrin A, van de Leemput J, Di Carlo P, Ursini G, Benjamin KJ, Brentani H, Kleinman JE, Hyde TM, Weinberger DR, McKay R, Shin JH, Sawada T, Paquola ACM, Erwin JA. Human archetypal pluripotent stem cells differentiate into trophoblast stem cells via endogenous BMP5/7 induction without transitioning through naive state. Sci Rep 2024; 14:3291. [PMID: 38332235 PMCID: PMC10853519 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-53381-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/20/2023] [Accepted: 01/31/2024] [Indexed: 02/10/2024] Open
Abstract
Primary human trophoblast stem cells (TSCs) and TSCs derived from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) can potentially model placental processes in vitro. Yet, the pluripotent states and factors involved in the differentiation of hPSCs to TSCs remain poorly understood. In this study, we demonstrate that the primed pluripotent state can generate TSCs by activating pathways such as Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) and Wingless-related integration site (WNT), and by suppressing tumor growth factor beta (TGFβ), histone deacetylases (HDAC), and Rho-associated protein kinase (ROCK) signaling pathways, all without the addition of exogenous Bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP4)-a condition we refer to as the TS condition. We characterized this process using temporal single-cell RNA sequencing to compare TS conditions with differentiation protocols involving BMP4 activation alone or BMP4 activation in conjunction with WNT inhibition. The TS condition consistently produced a stable, proliferative cell type that closely mimics first-trimester placental cytotrophoblasts, marked by the activation of endogenous retroviral genes and the absence of amnion expression. This was observed across multiple cell lines, including various primed induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) and embryonic stem cell (ESC) lines. Primed-derived TSCs can proliferate for over 30 passages and further specify into multinucleated syncytiotrophoblasts and extravillous trophoblast cells. Our research establishes that the differentiation of primed hPSCs to TSC under TS conditions triggers the induction of TMSB4X, BMP5/7, GATA3, and TFAP2A without progressing through a naive state. These findings propose that the primed hPSC state is part of a continuum of potency with the capacity to differentiate into TSCs through multiple routes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ethan Tietze
- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Inter-Institutional Graduate Program on Bioinformatics, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo, Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Center for Mathematics, Computation and Cognition, Federal University of ABC, Santo André, SP, Brazil
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Center for Precision Disease Modeling and Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Basic Medical Science, Neuroscience, and Sense Organs, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Inter-Institutional Graduate Program on Bioinformatics, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Sao Paulo, Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Sawada T, Barbosa AR, Araujo B, McCord AE, D'Ignazio L, Benjamin KJM, Sheehan B, Zabolocki M, Feltrin A, Arora R, Brandtjen AC, Kleinman JE, Hyde TM, Bardy C, Weinberger DR, Paquola ACM, Erwin JA. Recapitulation of Perturbed Striatal Gene Expression Dynamics of Donors' Brains With Ventral Forebrain Organoids Derived From the Same Individuals With Schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry 2023:appiajp20220723. [PMID: 37915216 DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.20220723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Schizophrenia is a brain disorder that originates during neurodevelopment and has complex genetic and environmental etiologies. Despite decades of clinical evidence of altered striatal function in affected patients, studies examining its cellular and molecular mechanisms in humans are limited. To explore neurodevelopmental alterations in the striatum associated with schizophrenia, the authors established a method for the differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) into ventral forebrain organoids (VFOs). METHODS VFOs were generated from postmortem dural fibroblast-derived iPSCs of four individuals with schizophrenia and four neurotypical control individuals for whom postmortem caudate genotypes and transcriptomic data were profiled in the BrainSeq neurogenomics consortium. Individuals were selected such that the two groups had nonoverlapping schizophrenia polygenic risk scores (PRSs). RESULTS Single-cell RNA sequencing analyses of VFOs revealed differences in developmental trajectory between schizophrenia and control individuals in which inhibitory neuronal cells from the patients exhibited accelerated maturation. Furthermore, upregulated genes in inhibitory neurons in schizophrenia VFOs showed a significant overlap with upregulated genes in postmortem caudate tissue of individuals with schizophrenia compared with control individuals, including the donors of the iPSC cohort. CONCLUSIONS The findings suggest that striatal neurons derived from high-PRS individuals with schizophrenia carry abnormalities that originated during early brain development and that the VFO model can recapitulate disease-relevant cell type-specific neurodevelopmental phenotypes in a dish.
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- Tomoyo Sawada
- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore (Sawada, Barbosa, Araujo, McCord, D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Sheehan, Feltrin, Arora, Brandtjen, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin); Department of Neurology (D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger), and Department of Neuroscience (Weinberger, Erwin), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy); Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy)
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore (Sawada, Barbosa, Araujo, McCord, D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Sheehan, Feltrin, Arora, Brandtjen, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin); Department of Neurology (D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger), and Department of Neuroscience (Weinberger, Erwin), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy); Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy)
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore (Sawada, Barbosa, Araujo, McCord, D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Sheehan, Feltrin, Arora, Brandtjen, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin); Department of Neurology (D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger), and Department of Neuroscience (Weinberger, Erwin), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy); Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy)
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore (Sawada, Barbosa, Araujo, McCord, D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Sheehan, Feltrin, Arora, Brandtjen, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin); Department of Neurology (D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger), and Department of Neuroscience (Weinberger, Erwin), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy); Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy)
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore (Sawada, Barbosa, Araujo, McCord, D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Sheehan, Feltrin, Arora, Brandtjen, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin); Department of Neurology (D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger), and Department of Neuroscience (Weinberger, Erwin), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy); Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy)
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore (Sawada, Barbosa, Araujo, McCord, D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Sheehan, Feltrin, Arora, Brandtjen, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin); Department of Neurology (D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger), and Department of Neuroscience (Weinberger, Erwin), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy); Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy)
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore (Sawada, Barbosa, Araujo, McCord, D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Sheehan, Feltrin, Arora, Brandtjen, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin); Department of Neurology (D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger), and Department of Neuroscience (Weinberger, Erwin), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy); Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy)
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore (Sawada, Barbosa, Araujo, McCord, D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Sheehan, Feltrin, Arora, Brandtjen, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin); Department of Neurology (D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger), and Department of Neuroscience (Weinberger, Erwin), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy); Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy)
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore (Sawada, Barbosa, Araujo, McCord, D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Sheehan, Feltrin, Arora, Brandtjen, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin); Department of Neurology (D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger), and Department of Neuroscience (Weinberger, Erwin), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy); Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy)
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore (Sawada, Barbosa, Araujo, McCord, D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Sheehan, Feltrin, Arora, Brandtjen, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin); Department of Neurology (D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger), and Department of Neuroscience (Weinberger, Erwin), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy); Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy)
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore (Sawada, Barbosa, Araujo, McCord, D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Sheehan, Feltrin, Arora, Brandtjen, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin); Department of Neurology (D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger), and Department of Neuroscience (Weinberger, Erwin), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy); Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy)
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore (Sawada, Barbosa, Araujo, McCord, D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Sheehan, Feltrin, Arora, Brandtjen, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin); Department of Neurology (D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger), and Department of Neuroscience (Weinberger, Erwin), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy); Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy)
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore (Sawada, Barbosa, Araujo, McCord, D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Sheehan, Feltrin, Arora, Brandtjen, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin); Department of Neurology (D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger), and Department of Neuroscience (Weinberger, Erwin), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy); Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy)
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore (Sawada, Barbosa, Araujo, McCord, D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Sheehan, Feltrin, Arora, Brandtjen, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin); Department of Neurology (D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger), and Department of Neuroscience (Weinberger, Erwin), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy); Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy)
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore (Sawada, Barbosa, Araujo, McCord, D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Sheehan, Feltrin, Arora, Brandtjen, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin); Department of Neurology (D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger), and Department of Neuroscience (Weinberger, Erwin), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy); Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy)
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore (Sawada, Barbosa, Araujo, McCord, D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Sheehan, Feltrin, Arora, Brandtjen, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin); Department of Neurology (D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger), and Department of Neuroscience (Weinberger, Erwin), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy); Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy)
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- Lieber Institute for Brain Development, Baltimore (Sawada, Barbosa, Araujo, McCord, D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Sheehan, Feltrin, Arora, Brandtjen, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin); Department of Neurology (D'Ignazio, Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger, Paquola, Erwin), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Benjamin, Kleinman, Hyde, Weinberger), and Department of Neuroscience (Weinberger, Erwin), Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy); Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide (Zabolocki, Bardy)
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