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THE BATTALION
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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
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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
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