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FoxP2 is significantly associated with schizophrenia and major depression in the Chinese Han population.
The world journal of biological psychiatry : the official journal of the World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry - 1 Mar 2013
Li Tao, Zeng Zhen, Zhao Qian, Wang Ti, Huang Ke, Li Junyan, Li You, Liu Jie, Wei Zhiyun, Wang Yang, Feng Guoyin, He Lin, Shi Yongyong
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVES: The FoxP2 gene, located on 7q31, encodes a transcription factor. It was first discovered through investigations of a large multigenerational family (the KE family) with a rare severe speech and language disorder (Fisher et al., Nat. Genet. 1998;18:168; Lai et al., Nature 2001;413:519). Subsequent studies gave powerful and convincing functional evidence to the connection between FoxP2 and language...
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