KIAA0319 – A New Candidate Gene For Language
The current issue of the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders has published an open access paper announcing the discovery of a …
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Mice With Humanized FOXP2 Have Longer Neurons, Vocalize Differently…
FOXP2 is one of my favorite genes. I studied it extensively while getting my Master’s degree and wrote about it …
CNTNAP2 Variant Linked To Language Impairment
Today’s issue of Nature has a brief essay on the role of language in cultural evolution. The authors touch up …
Questioning the level of modern human contamination in the Neandertal FOXP2 gene sequence
One of my favorite papers from last year was the investigation of FOXP2 allele in Neandertals. It seems like it …
Neandertals have the same mutations in FOXP2, the language gene, as modern humans
FOXP2 is thought to be a language gene. It is highly conserved in most mammals but in humans there are …
