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An Informatics Approach to Integrating Genetic and Neurological Data in Speech and Language Neuroscience

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Author	Bohland, Jason W. Myers, Emma M. Kim, Esther
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	A number of heritable disorders impair the normal development of speech and language processes and occur in large numbers within the general population. While candidate genes and loci have been identified, the gap between genotype and phenotype is vast, limiting current understanding of the biology of normal and disordered processes. This gap exists not only in our scientific knowledge, but also in our research communities, where genetics researchers and speech, language, and cognitive scientists tend to operate independently. Here we describe a web-based, domain-specific, curated database that represents information about genotype-phenotype relations specific to speech and language disorders, as well as neuroimaging results demonstrating focal brain differences in relevant patients versus controls. Bringing these two distinct data types into a common database ( http://neurospeech.org/sldb ) is a first step toward bringing molecular level information into cognitive and computational theories of speech and language function. One bridge between these data types is provided by densely sampled profiles of gene expression in the brain, such as those provided by the Allen Brain Atlases. Here we present results from exploratory analyses of human brain gene expression profiles for genes implicated in speech and language disorders, which are annotated in our database. We then discuss how such datasets can be useful in the development of computational models that bridge levels of analysis, necessary to provide a mechanistic understanding of heritable language disorders. We further describe our general approach to information integration, discuss important caveats and considerations, and offer a specific but speculative example based on genes implicated in stuttering and basal ganglia function in speech motor control.
Starting Page	39
Ending Page	62
Page Count	24
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15392791
Journal	Neuroinformatics
Volume Number	12
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15590089
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2013-08-15
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Speech Language Neuroinformatics Bioinformatics Imaging Neurogenetics Neurosciences Computational Biology/Bioinformatics Computer Application in Life Sciences Neurology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Neuroscience Information Systems Software

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