PolyQ length-based molecular encoding of vocalization frequency in FOXP2

Summary: The transcription factor FOXP2, a regulator of vocalization- and speech/language-related phenotypes, contains two long polyQ repeats (Q1 and Q2) displaying marked, still enigmatic length variation across mammals. We found that the Q1/Q2 length ratio quantitatively encodes vocalization frequ...

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Main Authors: Serena Vaglietti, Veronica Villeri, Marco Dell’Oca, Chiara Marchetti, Federico Cesano, Francesca Rizzo, Dave Miller, Louis LaPierre, Ilaria Pelassa, Francisco J. Monje, Luca Colnaghi, Mirella Ghirardi, Ferdinando Fiumara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-10-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223021132