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Early neuroimaging markers of FOXP2 intragenic deletion.
Scientific reports - 13 Oct 2016
Liégeois Frédérique J, Hildebrand Michael S, Bonthrone Alexandra, Turner Samantha J, Scheffer Ingrid E, Bahlo Melanie, Connelly Alan, Morgan Angela T
Abstract excerpt
FOXP2 is the major gene associated with severe, persistent, developmental speech and language disorders. While studies in the original family in which a FOXP2 mutation was found showed volume reduction and reduced activation in core language and speech networks, there have been no imaging studies of different FOXP2 mutations. We conducted a multimodal MRI study in an eight-year-old boy (A-II) with a de novo FOXP2...
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