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When it comes to internships, the competition is tough! That’s why you need more than just basic survival skills. Come to the workshop on Internship Search Strategies and get an edge on the competitiotu. Search Tools Resumes Interviewing ...becauseyou 'replaying to win. Thursday, October 11 ♦ 3:30 PM ♦ 404 Rudder Tuesday, October 23 ♦ 5:30 PM ♦ 404 Rudder /"""'S, Experiential Education 4 , Career Center p} http:iVcareercenter.tamn.edu 209 Koldus • 845-7725 Your future starts here! Page 4 THE BATTALION Wednesday, October 10, \ - r omtMk -A stmasmaamtsm , • imm** mum* Maw* inwiil. e lilSSTIR %MM f»an«#ionor.#o HirvI«lonmiono Genetic clu& connects biology and language ^wa By Melissa braddock THE BATTALION ‘ The speed and ease of lan guage development in children has long suggested to researchers that some genetic aspect must be involved. Now, in work published in the Oct. 4 issue of the journal Nature, a team of British geneticists and linguists have identified the first gene to be directly linked with speech and language. The researchers, led by Dr. Anthony Monaco of the University of Oxford, studied a large British family in which many members display a severe language disorder. Within the "KE" family, 15 of 37 members spanning three generations display the same symptoms of garbled pronunci ation and the inability to grasp grammatical rules. Inheritance patterns indicat ed to researchers that the disor der was likely caused by a muta tion in a single dominant gene. A few years ago, Monaco and his team identified a 100- gene region on Chromosome 7 as a likely location for such a mutation. Then, the researchers searched for Chromosome 7 abnormalities in an unrelated young boy with the same language disorder. This led them to a defect in a specific gene, known as FOXP2, that was known be involved in fetal brain development. Monaco then identified the precise mutation on the FOXP2 gene that results in this language disorder. The observed mutation involves a substitution of a sin gle nucleotide out of 6,500 in one of the two copies of the FOXP2 gene Looking back at the KE fam ily, the scientists found this same mutation in all the affected family members, but not in any unaffected family members or healthy volunteers. In the Nature article, the Monaco proposed that this sin gle replacement alters the gene's protein product enough to impair its function and ultimate ly "...leads to abnormal develop ment of neural structures that are important for speech and language." The study authors cautioned that the FOXP2 gene's precise function is not yet clear, and that it is probably only one of many genes directly or indirectly involved in speech and language. FOXP2 is not specifically a The Wiley Lecture Scries Presents: WILEY LECTURE S_E_R_|_EJS Looking to the Future: Policy Changes Resulting from the Attack on America Wednesday, October 10, 2001 7:00 p.m. MSC 224 MM 'U.vu*''* wiley.tamu.edu <k LIVE MUSIC TWcdnesday - * Fallout * Cover $ 3.00 T Thursday - * Rebecca ^ Cover $ 5.oo Torrellas * T Friday - * Thread * featuring 4 other guest bands Cover $ 5.00 ^Saturday * Closed for a private party; * Voted Best Live Music Venue in the Brazos Valley! Where real musicians play! 201 W. 26th Street, Downtown Bryan 775-7735 Free Parking ORDE MEGA “QreeJc Notional Honor Society” First Meeting: Thursday October 11, 2001 @ 7:00 Who: New & Old Members Where: Kappa Delta Sorority House Layne’s food will be served If you have any questions, contact: orderofomegatamu@yahoo.com Bruce Cannon V.P. Programs 696-4908 Elizabeth Degen President 774-5007 Tammie Preston-Cunningham Advisor 862-5636 ***pj ease B r j n g 2 canned goods and wear your pin to the meeting* gene that triggers speech ability. In fact, its similarity to other known genes suggests that it likely produces a transcription factor — a protein that modu lates the activity of other genes, in this case genes involved in early brain development. If a baby inherits a mutated FOXP2, these genes will not be properly controlled and the developing brain will fail to make the circuits needed to process language. Over the next few years, Monaco hopes to identify these "downstream" genes and gain further insight into the molecu lar underpinnings of language. Although the team’s discov ery supports the basic concept that language has a genetic ele ment. it does not resolve the long debate among cognitive scientists over whether or not genes "hard wire" grammar cir cuits in the brain. In an accompanying Nature commentary. Dr. Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an advocate of genetically "hard-wired" gram mar, wrote that this discovery is likely to greatly contribute to the understanding of how the SlflHQWN 1111117117 7 Immediate All five of the :cer team’s tr e contributed season. They brain processes language how human language evolved While he does not belie language can be linked toa gle gene. Pinker points outtli this provides strong evidei* for a genetic basis of at least language disorder. The FOXP2 gene is like! play “a causal role inthedevi *P' te retl1 opment of normal brain cirai rters ,roni ^ ast I ry that underlies languages ^ SIX ( speech,” Pinker wrote. Many other scientists i more conservative and feel d genes such as F0XP2 mertl regulate a general developm tal process rather than spec language abilities. "This is one of a famil) genes that also exists in odi animals. 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