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Genes, language development, and language disorders.
Mental retardation and developmental disabilities research reviews - 1 Jan 2007
Smith Shelley D
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Genetic factors are important contributors to language and learning disorders, and discovery of the underlying genes can help delineate the basic neurological pathways that are involved. This information, in turn, can help define disorders and their perceptual and processing deficits. Initial molecular genetic studies of dyslexia, for example, appear to converge on defects in neuronal and axonal migration....
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