FOXP2 as a molecular window into speech and language

Trends in Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 166-177

  Fisher, Simon E ^a   Scharff, Constance ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP2;

DEVELOPMENT; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOMICS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; MONOGENIC DISORDER; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUTAGENESIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SONGBIRD; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; SPEECH DISORDER; VERTEBRATE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; MUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 63449102727     PISSN: 01689525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tig.2009.03.002     Document Type: Review

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