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The Flap about FoxP2
Could a single gene have made communication possible?
Email: Jack Lucentini - jlucentini@the-scientist.com The Scientist 2005, 19(20):14
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Four years ago, a finding that defects in a single gene could severely impair language set off a race to learn what the gene, FOXP2, could reveal about language's neural basis.[1]
After the gene was made known through studies of the so-called KE family, half of whom had the defect and could barely speak, analyses showed that gene expression corresponded in surprising ways with development in language-linked brain areas.
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