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Language fMRI abnormalities associated with FOXP2 gene mutation.
Nature neuroscience - 1 Nov 2003
Liégeois Frédérique, Baldeweg Torsten, Connelly Alan, Gadian David G, Mishkin Mortimer, Vargha-Khadem Faraneh
Abstract excerpt
Half the members of the KE family suffer from a speech and language disorder caused by a mutation in the FOXP2 gene. We examined functional brain abnormalities associated with this mutation using two fMRI language experiments, one involving covert (silent) verb generation and the other overt (spoken) verb generation and word repetition. The unaffected family members showed a typical left-dominant distribution of...
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