Worldwide distribution of the DCDC2 READ1 regulatory element and its relationship with phoneme variation across languages [Psychological and Cognitive Sciences]

DCDC2 is a gene strongly associated with components of the phonological processing system in animal models and in multiple independent studies of populations and languages. We propose that it may also influence population-level variation in language component usage. To test this hypothesis, we investigated the evolution and worldwide distribution of...

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