Mutations in FOXP2 are known to cause speech and language problems ... Future work could also be aimed at elucidating which part of the human brain the protein binds to and how that binding actually ...

A new study links a particular gene to the origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in humans may have helped us develop speech.

But some findings on FOXP2 have been disputed ... The gene produces a neuron-specific RNA binding protein key to brain development and neuromuscular control that was first cloned and characterized ...

The mutation is predicted to inactivate the FOXP2 protein, and the language deficit, which occurs in heterozygous individuals, presumably indicates that two copies of the gene are necessary for ...

Edyta Zielinska at The Scientist has the details: Measuring the amount of FOXP2 protein in the brain language areas of 4- and 5-year-old children who had recently died in accidents, the team found ...

Darnell has been studying the protein — called NOVA1 and known to ... first gene tied to a language and speech disorder. Called FOXP2, it was referred to as the human language gene.