Genes speak to each other in their own molecular dialect. By tracking one such conversation, scientists have identified a genetic relationship that may contribute to the common childhood language disorder known as specific language impairment, or SLI.
A gene called FOXP2 communicates with another gene, contactin-associated protein-like 2, or CNTNAP2.
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