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Familial dyslexia in a large Swedish family: a whole genome linkage scan.
Behavior genetics - 1 Jan 2011
Svensson Idor, Nilsson Staffan, Wahlström Jan, Jernås Margareta, Carlsson Lena M, Hjelmquist Erland
Abstract excerpt
There is a compelling body of evidence that developmental dyslexia runs in families and seems to be highly inheritable. Several investigations during the last two decades have shown possible locations of genes that might be involved in dyslexia, including regions of chromosomes 1, 2, 3, 6, 11, 13, 15 and 18. In addition, six candidate genes (KIAA0319, DYX1C1, DCDC2, ROBO1, MRPL19 and C2ORF3) seem to be related to...
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