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Confirmation of a dyslexia susceptibility locus on chromosome 1p34-p36 in a set of 100 Canadian families.
American journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics - 15 May 2004
Tzenova Jordana, Kaplan Bonnie J, Petryshen Tracey L, Field L Leigh
Abstract excerpt
Dyslexia is a common and genetically complex trait that manifests primarily as a reading disability independent of general intelligence and educational opportunity. Strong evidence for a dyslexia susceptibility locus on chromosome 1p34-p36 (near marker D1S199) was recently reported, and an earlier study found suggestive evidence for linkage to the same region. We tested for the presence of a dyslexia gene in this...
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