“…Human Lissencephaly-1 (LIS1) haploinsufficiency is the most common genetic cause of a neuronal migration disorder called lissencephaly (Dobyns et al, 1993;Hattori et al, 1994; Moon et al, 2013). LIS1 is a key regulator of cytoplasmic dynein and microtubules (MTs), and it has been proposed as an important molecular link coordinating both MTs and actin (Kholmanskiki 2003;Kholmanskiki 2006;Jheng et al, 2018). Besides an indispensible role for LIS1 in neuronal migration in post-mitotic neurons, Lis1 mutant mouse studies suggest pivotal roles of LIS1 in neocortical neural progenitor cell (NPC) division (Yingling et al, 2008;Youn et al, 2009;Hippenmeyer et al, 2010;Bershteyn et al, 2017) by regulating mitotic spindles (Yingling et al, 2008;Moon et al, 2014), consistent with other mutants of MT/dynein-associated proteins such as LGN, NDE1, and NDEL1 (Fuga et al, 2004;Bradshaw and Hayashi 2017;Doobin et al, 2016;Wynne et al, 2018).…”