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Genetic linkage analysis with dyslexia: evidence for linkage of spelling disability to chromosome 15.
European child & adolescent psychiatry - 1 Jan 1999
Nöthen M M, Schulte-Körne G, Grimm T, Cichon S, Vogt I R, Müller-Myhsok B, Propping P, Remschmidt H
Abstract excerpt
Dyslexia (reading and spelling disability) is one of the most frequently diagnosed disorders in childhood. Twin studies of dyslexia have indicated that deficits in spelling are substantially heritable and that the heritability of spelling deficits is higher than the heritability of reading deficits. We conducted a linkage study for spelling disability in seven multiplex families from Germany. Following previously...
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