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A genome scan in multigenerational families with dyslexia: Identification of a novel locus on chromosome 2q that contributes to phonological decoding efficiency.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Jul 2005
Raskind W H, Igo R P, Chapman N H, Berninger V W, Thomson J B, Matsushita M, Brkanac Z, Holzman T, Brown M, Wijsman E M
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Dyslexia is a common and complex developmental disorder manifested by unexpected difficulty in learning to read. Multiple different measures are used for diagnosis, and may reflect different biological pathways related to the disorder. Impaired phonological decoding (translation of written words without meaning cues into spoken words) is thought to be a core deficit. We present a genome scan of two continuous...
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