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Interrelationship and familiality of dyslexia related quantitative measures.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Mar 2007
Schulte-Körne G, Ziegler A, Deimel W, Schumacher J, Plume E, Bachmann C, Kleensang A, Propping P, Nöthen M M, Warnke A, Remschmidt H, König I R
Abstract excerpt
Dyslexia is a complex gene-environment disorder with poorly understood etiology that affects about 5% of school-age children. Dyslexia occurs in all languages and is associated with a high level of social and psychological morbidity for the individual and their family; approximately 40-50% have persistent disability into adulthood. The core symptoms are word reading and spelling deficits, but several other...
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