Identification of FOXP2 truncation as a novel cause of developmental speech and language deficits

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1074-1080

  MacDermot, Kay D ^a,b   Bonora, Elena ^a,e   Sykes, Nuala ^a   Coupe, Anne Marie ^a   Lai, Cecilia S L ^a,f   Vernes, Sonja C ^a   Vargha Khadem, Faraneh ^c   McKenzie, Fiona ^d   Smith, Robert L ^d   Monaco, Anthony P ^a   Fisher, Simon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHN HUNTER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^e Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria di Bologna   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DYSLEXIA; DYSPRAXIA; FOXP2 GENE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MISSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISORDER;

EID: 21044445447     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/430841     Document Type: Article

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