RT Journal
A1 Brown, Vanessa M.
A1 Ossadtchi, Alex
A1 Khan, Arshad H.
A1 Cherry, Simon R.
A1 Leahy, Richard M.
A1 Smith, Desmond J.
T1 High-Throughput Imaging of Brain Gene Expression
JF Genome Research 
JO Genome Research 
YR 2002 
FD February 01 
VO 12 
IS 2 
SP 244 
OP 254 
DO 10.1101/gr.204102 
UL http://genome.cshlp.org/content/12/2/244.abstract 
AB Voxelation is a new method for acquisition of three dimensional (3D) gene expression patterns in the brain. It employs high-throughput analysis of spatially registered voxels (cubes) to produce multiple volumetric maps of gene expression analogous to the images reconstructed in biomedical imaging systems. Using microarrays, 24 voxel images of coronal hemisections at the level of the hippocampus of both the normal human brain and Alzheimer's disease brain were acquired for 2000 genes. The analysis revealed a common network of coregulated genes, and allowed identification of putative control regions. In addition, singular value decomposition (SVD), a mathematical method used to provide economical explanations of complex data sets, produced images that distinguished between brain structures, including cortex, caudate, and hippocampus. The results suggest that voxelation will be a useful approach for understanding how the genome constructs the brain.[All study results are available as a web supplement athttp://www.pharmacology.ucla.edu/smithlab/genome_research_data and at http://www.genome.org.]