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Evidence for a susceptibility locus on chromosome 6q influencing phonological coding dyslexia.
American journal of medical genetics - 8 Aug 2001
Petryshen T L, Kaplan B J, Fu Liu M, de French N S, Tobias R, Hughes M L, Field L L
Abstract excerpt
A linkage study of 96 dyslexia families containing at least two affected siblings (totaling 877 individuals) has found evidence for a dyslexia susceptibility gene on chromosome 6q11.2-q12 (assigned the name DYX4). Using a qualitative phonological coding dyslexia (PCD) phenotype (affected, unaffec...
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