Human brain evolution: From gene discovery to phenotype discovery

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue SUPPL.1, 2012, Pages 10709-10716

  Preuss, Todd M ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hominid; Phylogeny; Primate

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP2; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXP2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; CHIMPANZEE; EVOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPEECH; ANIMAL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY;

HOMINIDAE; PAN; PRIMATES;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRAIN; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 84865365950     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201894109     Document Type: Review

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