Widespread differences in cortex DNA methylation of the "language gene" CNTNAP2 between humans and chimpanzees.

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Published in Epigenetics on January 16, 2014

Authors

Eberhard Schneider1, Nady El Hajj1, Steven Richter1, Justin Roche-Santiago1, Indrajit Nanda1, Werner Schempp2, Peter Riederer3, Bianca Navarro4, Ronald E Bontrop5, Ivanela Kondova5, Claus Jürgen Scholz6, Thomas Haaf1

Author Affiliations

1: Institute for Human Genetics; Julius Maximilian University; Würzburg, Germany.
2: Institute for Human Genetics; University of Freiburg; Freiburg, Germany.
3: Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory; Department of Psychiatry; University Hospital; Würzburg, Germany.
4: Institute of Legal Medicine; University Medical Center; Mainz, Germany.
5: Biomedical Primate Research Center; Rijswijk, The Netherlands.
6: Laboratory for Microarray Applications; IZKF; Julius Maximilians University; Würzburg, Germany.

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