Takao Hikita

Identification of YWHAE, a gene encoding 14-3-3epsilon, as a possible susceptibility gene for schizophrenia (2008)

Ikeda, Masashi, Hikita, Takao, Taya, Shinichiro, Uraguchi-Asaki, Junko, Toyo-oka, Kazuhito, Wynshaw-Boris, Anthony, ...

Schizophrenia is a complex mental disorder with a fairly high degree of heritability. Although the causes of schizophrenia remain unclear, it is now widely accepted that it is a neurodevelopmental...

Establishment of a tissue-specific RNAi system in C. elegans (2007)

Qadota, Hiroshi, Inoue, Makiko, Hikita, Takao, Köppen, Mathias, Hardin, Jeffrey D., Amano, Mutsuki, ...

In C. elegans, mosaic analysis is a powerful genetic tool for determining in which tissue or specific cells a gene of interest is required. For traditional mosaic analysis, a loss-of-function mutant...