Table 1 Overview of brain samples (collections and brain regions).

From: Mapping the expression of an ANK3 isoform associated with bipolar disorder in the human brain

 

Child development

Case-control

Brain region

Orbital-frontal cortexa

Orbital-frontal cortexb

Frontal cortexb,c

Corpus callosumb

Corpus callosumd,e

Sample type

Frozen tissue block

RNA

RNA

RNA

Frozen tissue block

Healthy controls

41

34

51

35

88

Bipolar disorder

0

32

53

34

45

Schizophrenia

0

34

54

35

73

Mean age

1–2 individuals from each age 1–24 years

44.1

45.6

44

61.1

Male prop

1

0.64

0.65

0.65

0.60

Female prop

0

0.36

0.35

0.35

0.40

  1. Brain repository.
  2. aBrain and tissue bank—University of Maryland.
  3. bThe Stanley Medical Research Institute, Array collection.
  4. cThe Stanley Medical Research Institute, New collection.
  5. dHarvard Brain Tissue Resource Center.
  6. eThe University of Pittsburgh Brain Tissue Donation program.