Simon Fisher

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

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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/…