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Dyslexia and DYX1C1: deficits in reading and spelling associated with a missense mutation.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Dec 2010
Bates T C, Lind P A, Luciano M, Montgomery G W, Martin N G, Wright M J
Abstract excerpt
The status of DYX1C1 (C15q21.3) as a susceptibility gene for dyslexia is unclear. We report the association of this gene with reading and spelling ability in a sample of adolescent twins and their siblings. Family-based association analyses were carried out on 13 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in DYX1C1, typed in 790 families with up to 5 offspring and tested on 6 validated measures of lexical processing...
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