Alex A. Pollen

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• ANTIPODE Provides a Global View of Cell Type Homology and Transcriptomic Divergence in the Developing Mammalian Brain

  eLife · 2026-03-16

• ANTIPODE Provides a Global View of Cell Type Homology and Transcriptomic Divergence in the Developing Mammalian Brain

  eLife · 2026-03-16

• Data for article: Rapid and repeated evolution of myosin copy number in threespine stickleback

  Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2026-02-17

• Data for article: Rapid and repeated evolution of myosin copy number in threespine stickleback

  Open MIND · 2026-02-17

• Dissecting gene regulatory networks governing human cortical cell fate

  Nature · 2026-01-21 · 10 citations

• <i>NPEPPS</i> segmental duplication drives position effect expression of <i>TBC1D3</i> in the human brain

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2026-01-15

• Rapid and repeated evolution of myosin copy number in threespine stickleback

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-12-25

• Mapping cis- and trans-regulatory target genes of human-specific deletions

  Nature Communications · 2025-12-20 · 1 citations

• Author Correction: Conservation and alteration of mammalian striatal interneurons

  Nature · 2025-12-11

• Interrogating the Regulatory Function of HAQERs during Human Cortical DevelopmentPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-12-01 · 3 citations

• Conservation and alteration of mammalian striatal interneurons

  Nature · 2025-11-05 · 18 citations

• The new frontier in understanding human and mammalian brain development

  Nature · 2025-11-05 · 6 citations

• ANTIPODE Provides a Global View of Cell Type Homology and Transcriptomic Divergence in the Developing Mammalian BrainPreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-10-19 · 3 citations

• Accelerated Tempo of Cortical Neurogenesis in Down SyndromePreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-09-30

• Dissecting Gene Regulatory Networks Governing Human Cortical Cell FatePreprint

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025-09-24

• Fate plasticity of interneuron specification

  iScience · 2025-03-27 · 8 citations

• CellBouncer, A Unified Toolkit for Single-Cell Demultiplexing and Ambient RNA Analysis, Reveals Hominid Mitochondrial IncompatibilitiesPreprint

  Cell Genomics · 2025-03-23 · 4 citations

• Comparative characterization of human accelerated regions in neurons

  Nature · 2025-02-26 · 22 citations

• Editorial overview: Peering into our history through a genetic lens: How advances in genetics are changing our understanding of human evolution

  Current Opinion in Genetics & Development · 2025-02-24

• Implementation and validation of single-cell genomics experiments in neuroscience

  Nature Neuroscience · 2024-12-01 · 18 citations