Understanding Language from a Genomic Perspective

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 131-160

  Graham, Sarah A ^a   Fisher, Simon E ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

FOXP2; GWAS; Neurodevelopmental disorder; Next generation sequencing; Speech

Indexed keywords

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

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; EXOME; EXOME SEQUENCING; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DAMAGE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISORDER; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SPEECH;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXOME; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS; NEUROIMAGING; SPEECH;

EID: 84948734784     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-120213-092236     Document Type: Article

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