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ArticleNature communications2025

Connectivity of the adult human brain with sequential neurogenesis of circuits and transcriptomics signatures.

Ibai Diez, Fernando García-Moreno, Nayara Carral-Sainz, Sebastiano Stramaglia, Alicia Nieto-Reyes, Mauro D'Amato, Jesús M Cortes, Paolo Bonifazi

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Anchoring Functional Connectivity to Individual Sulcal Morphology Yields Insights in a Pediatric Study of Reasoning.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Ibai Diez *Center for Inflammation Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Fernando García-Moreno *IKERBASQUE: The Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9048-4237
Nayara Carral-SainzDepartamento de Ciencias de la Tierra y Física de la Materia Condensada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain.
Sebastiano StramagliaDipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, and INFN, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5873-8564
Alicia Nieto-ReyesDepartamento de Matemáticas, Estadística y Computación, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0268-3322
Mauro D'AmatoIKERBASQUE: The Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Spain.
Jesús M CortesComputational Neuroimaging Lab, Biobizkaia Health Research Institute, Barakaldo, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9059-8194
Paolo BonifaziComputational Neuroimaging Lab, Biobizkaia Health Research Institute, Barakaldo, Spain. paol.bonifazi@gmail.com.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding the architectural principles that shape human brain networks is a major challenge for systems neuroscience. We hypothesize that the centrality of the different brain circuits in the human connectome is a product of their embryogenic age, such that early-born nodes should become stronger hubs than those born later. Using a human brain segmentation based on embryogenic age, we observed that nodes' structural centrality correlated with their embryogenic age, supporting our hypothesis. An opposite trend was found at functional level. The difference in embryonic age between nodes inversely correlated with the probability of existence of links and their weights. Brain transcriptomic analysis revealed strong associations between embryonic age, structure-function centrality, and the expression of genes related to nervous system development, synapse regulation and human neurological diseases. Our results highlight two key principles regarding the wiring of the human brain: older-get-richer rule, whereby earlier-born regions become network hubs, and a preferential-age-attachment rule, whereby regions preferentially connect to others with similar neurogenic timing.

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BrainConnectomeNerve NetNeurogenesisTranscriptomeAdultFemaleGene Expression ProfilingHumansMaleMiddle AgedYoung Adult

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PMID41476060
PMCPMC12847928

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