Previous reports have demonstrated the connection between SNP-based genetic variation and expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) in the adult postmortem human brain, primarily in the cerebral cortex43-47. Our multiregional developmental dataset enabled us to search for association between SNP genotypes and spatiotemporal gene expression. We tested only for cis-eQTLs, restricting the search to SNPs within 10 kb of either transcription start site (TSS) or termination site (TES), as opposed to trans-eQTLs, which would require much larger sample sizes.
