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Support for EKN1 as the susceptibility locus for dyslexia on 15q21.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Dec 2004
Wigg K G, Couto J M, Feng Y, Anderson B, Cate-Carter T D, Macciardi F, Tannock R, Lovett M W, Humphries T W, Barr C L
Abstract excerpt
Dyslexia has been linked to a number of chromosomal regions including 15q. Recently a gene, EKN1, with unknown function in the linked region, was identified via a translocation breakpoint. This gene was further supported as a susceptibility locus by association studies in a Finnish sample. We investigated the possibility of this locus as a susceptibility gene contributing to dyslexia, analyzed as a categorical...
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