CROCCP2 Acts as a Human-Specific Modifier of Cilia Dynamics and mTOR Signaling to Promote Expansion of Cortical Progenitors

Scientists focused on CROCCP2 a hominid-specific gene duplicate from ciliary rootlet coiled coil (CROCC) that encoded the major component of the ciliary rootlet and found that CROCCP2 was highly expressed in the human fetal brain and not in other primate species.