A functional genetic link between distinct developmental language disorders

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 359, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 2337-2345

  Vernes, Sonja C ^a,b   Newbury, Dianne F ^a   Abrahams, Brett S ^c   Winchester, Laura ^a   Nicod, Jérôme ^a   Groszer, Matthias ^a   Alarcón, Maricela ^c   Oliver, Peter L ^b   Davies, Kay E ^b   Geschwind, Daniel H ^c   Monaco, Anthony P ^a   Fisher, Simon E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN FOXP2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 57149090343     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0802828     Document Type: Article

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