Identification of the transcriptional targets of FOXP2, a gene linked to speech and language, in developing human brain

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1144-1157

  Spiteri, Elizabeth ^a   Konopka, Genevieve ^a   Coppola, Giovanni ^a   Bomar, Jamee ^a   Oldham, Michael ^a   Ou, Jing ^a   Vernes, Sonja C ^b   Fisher, Simon E ^b   Ren, Bing ^c   Geschwind, Daniel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOX P2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHIMPANZEE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; COGNITION; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE CONTROL; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

PAN;

EID: 36749050396     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/522237     Document Type: Article

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