Scientists at the Allen Institute for Brain Science reported
in the latest issue of the journal Nature that human brains share a consistent
genetic blueprint and possess enormous biochemical complexity. The findings
stem from the first deep and large-scale analysis of the vast data set publicly
available in the Allen Human Brain Atlas.
The results of this study are based on extensive analysis of
the Allen Human Brain Atlas, specifically the detailed all-genes,
all-structures survey of genes at work throughout the human brain. This dataset
profiles 400 to 500 distinct brain areas per hemisphere using microarray
technology and comprises more than 100 million gene expression measurements
covering three individual human brains to date.