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Continuing the search for dyslexia genes on 6p.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 1 Apr 2003
Grigorenko Elena L, Wood Frank B, Golovyan Lina, Meyer Marianne, Romano Christina, Pauls David
Abstract excerpt
This study is a continuation and extension of the work with Orton Developmental Dyslexia (DD) pedigrees [Grigorenko et al., 1997; 2000, Grigorenko et al., 2001]. This study utilized an extended sample (N = 176) and a well-saturated map of chromosome 6p (30 markers). Six phenotypes were constructed to span a range of dyslexia-related cognitive processes. These phenotypes were: (1) Phonemic Awareness (of spoken...
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