Fig. 3: Brain regions in which genes found only in modern humans are overexpressed. | Molecular Psychiatry

Fig. 3: Brain regions in which genes found only in modern humans are overexpressed.

From: Evolution of genetic networks for human creativity

Fig. 3

Normalized average gene expression in Allen Human Brain Atlas in particular regions of the human brain in which there is significant co-expression of the constituent genes of SNP sets in which there is at least one gene found only modern humans. The highlighted regions are called regions of interest (ROIs) because they are the regions in which a given list of genes are significantly co-expressed when compared to the rest of the Allen Human Brain Atlas. The color code indicates the importance of the region, with red as maximum. A and B depict ROIs in which constituent genes of the Character SNP sets of the self-awareness network are highly expressed, whereas C and D depict ROIs in which constituent genes of the Temperament SNP sets of the self-awareness network are highly expressed.

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