Assessing the effects of common variation in the FOXP2 gene on human brain structure

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JULY, 2014, Pages

  Hoogman, Martine ^a   Guadalupe, Tulio ^a   Zwiers, Marcel P ^b   Klarenbeek, Patricia ^b   Francks, Clyde ^a,b   Fisher, Simon E ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain anatomy; FOXP2; Imaging genetics; Language; MRI; Transcription factor; VBM

Indexed keywords

DNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXP2;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOXP2 GENE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

EID: 84903695301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00473     Document Type: Article

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