The orchestrated expression of thousands of genes gives rise to the complexity of the human brain.However,the structures governing these myriad gene-gene interactions remain unclear.By analyzing transcription data fro...The orchestrated expression of thousands of genes gives rise to the complexity of the human brain.However,the structures governing these myriad gene-gene interactions remain unclear.By analyzing transcription data from more than 2000 sites in six human brains,we found that pairwise interactions between genes,without considering any higher-order interactions,are sufficient to predict the transcriptional pattern of the genome for individual brain regions and the transcriptional profile of the entire brain consisting of more than 200 areas.These findings suggest a quadratic complexity of transcriptional patterns in the human brain,which is much simpler than expected.In addition,using a pairwise interaction model,we revealed that the strength of gene-gene interactions in the human brain gives rise to the nearly maximal number of transcriptional clusters,which may account for the functional and structural richness of the brain.展开更多
基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2017YFA0105203)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(81671855)+1 种基金Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB32040200)Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence,and Beijing Advanced Discipline Fund。
文摘The orchestrated expression of thousands of genes gives rise to the complexity of the human brain.However,the structures governing these myriad gene-gene interactions remain unclear.By analyzing transcription data from more than 2000 sites in six human brains,we found that pairwise interactions between genes,without considering any higher-order interactions,are sufficient to predict the transcriptional pattern of the genome for individual brain regions and the transcriptional profile of the entire brain consisting of more than 200 areas.These findings suggest a quadratic complexity of transcriptional patterns in the human brain,which is much simpler than expected.In addition,using a pairwise interaction model,we revealed that the strength of gene-gene interactions in the human brain gives rise to the nearly maximal number of transcriptional clusters,which may account for the functional and structural richness of the brain.
