Monoallelic expression of the human FOXP2 speech gene

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

Volumn 112, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 6848-6854

  Adegbola, Abidemi A ^a,b   Cox, Gerald F ^c,d   Bradshaw, Elizabeth M ^e   Hafler, David A ^f   Gimelbrant, Alexander ^e,g   Chess, Andrew ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Center for Autism   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d GENZYME CORPORATION   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental verbal dyspraxia; FOXP2; Language; Random monoallelic expression; Speech

Indexed keywords

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

ALLELE; APRAXIA; ARTICLE; AUTOSOME; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM MONOALLELIC EXPRESSION; SPEECH; VERBAL DYSPRAXIA; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; X CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

APRAXIAS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FEMALE; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENES, X-LINKED; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; SPEECH; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

EID: 84930651336     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1411270111     Document Type: Article

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