Genetic variants of FOXP2 and KIAA0319/TTRAP/THEM2 locus are associated with altered brain activation in distinct language-related regions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 817-825

  Pinel, Philippe ^a,b,c,d   Fauchereau, Fabien ^e,f,g   Moreno, Antonio ^a,b,c,d   Barbot, Alexis ^b   Lathrop, Mark ^h   Zelenika, Diana ^h   le Bihan, Denis ^b   Poline, Jean Baptiste ^b,i   Bourgeron, Thomas ^e,f,g   Dehaene, Stanislas ^a,b,c,d  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b DIF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^e INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^g CNRS   (France)

^h CENTRE NATIONAL DE GÉNOTYPAGE   (France)

ⁱ INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP2;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN FUNCTION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KIAA0319 GENE; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPEECH; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THEM2 GENE; TRRAP GENE;

ADULT; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OXYGEN; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE; THIOLESTER HYDROLASES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856002114     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5996-10.2012     Document Type: Article

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