Molecular evolution of FOXP2, a gene involved in speech and language

Nature

Volumn 418, Issue 6900, 2002, Pages 869-872

  Enard, Wolfgang ^a   Przeworski, Molly ^a   Fisher, Simon E ^b   Lai, Cecilia S L ^a,b   Wiebe, Victor ^a   Kitano, Takashi ^a   Monaco, Anthony P ^b   Pääbo, Svante ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; DNA; MUTAGENESIS; PROTEINS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SPEECH;

MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

GENES;

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN FOXP2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

GENETICS;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LARYNX; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUTH; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIMATES; SELECTION (GENETICS); SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDERS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

MACACA MULATTA; PAN (APE); PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO PYGMAEUS;

EID: 0037158715     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01025     Document Type: Article

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