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Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing...1/n
No more tweets from me for the time being. I'm posting about genes, brains, speech & language on Mastodon instead. See you there!
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In-depth study of 17 families with loss-of-function or missense variants in the FOXP2 gene confirms links to speech/language impairments, & also suggests elevated risk of anxiety, depression, sleep disturbance. Led by @Lottiedmorison, out now in @JMG_BMJ: jmg.bmj.com/content/early/20…
In-depth study of 17 families with loss-of-function or missense variants in the FOXP2 gene confirms links to speech/language impairments, & also suggests elevated risk of anxiety, depression, sleep disturbance. Led by @Lottiedmorison, out now in @JMG_BMJ: jmg.bmj.com/content/early/20…
If you're curious about how we originally discovered this gene, here's an explainer thread that I posted on the 20-year anniversary of our first FOXP2 publication:
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Twenty years ago today, our paper “A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech & language disorder” was published: nature.com/articles/35097076. To mark the occasion, a personal thread about the journey we took to get to that point.
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Our International Max Planck Research School is offering two PhD fellowships, funded by @maxplanckpress, for innovative research in the language sciences. Includes the theme “Genetic pathways in (a)typical speech/language development”! Apply by 2 Jan '23: mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fellowships…
ALT Covers of the first 100 PhD theses of the IMPRS for Language Sciences, spanning multiple disciplines from linguistics & psychology to neuroscience & genetics.
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Out now in @NatureGenet, our study of DNA from 51,800 adults answering "yes" to question "have you been diagnosed with dyslexia?" compared to >1 million who responded "no", led by team of @drmluciano @EdinburghUni. We found 42 associated genetic loci. nature.com/articles/s41588-0… 1/n
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Host of genes and genetic variants linked to dyslexia identified.
theguardian.com/society/2022…
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An international team of scientists, including researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics has for the first time pinpointed a large number of genes that are reliably associated with dyslexia.
mpi.nl/news/gene-study-ident…
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Out now in @NatureGenet, our study of DNA from 51,800 adults answering "yes" to question "have you been diagnosed with dyslexia?" compared to >1 million who responded "no", led by team of @drmluciano @EdinburghUni. We found 42 associated genetic loci. nature.com/articles/s41588-0… 1/n
Polygenic index from this work is too inaccurate for individual prediction & captured genetic effects might make different contributions in different learning environments. But scientists can use findings to test ideas about how nature & nurture interact as we learn to read. 12/n
For more explanations about what molecular genetic research can & cannot tell us about dyslexia, please have a look at this FAQ website that we made to accompany the study: genlang.org/GWAS_dyslexia_FA… 13/13