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Investigation of dyslexia and SLI risk variants in reading- and language-impaired subjects.
Behavior genetics - 1 Jan 2011
Newbury D F, Paracchini S, Scerri T S, Winchester L, Addis L, Richardson Alex J, Walter J, Stein J F, Talcott J B, Monaco A P
Abstract excerpt
Dyslexia (or reading disability) and specific language impairment (or SLI) are common childhood disorders that show considerable co-morbidity and diagnostic overlaps and have been suggested to share some genetic aetiology. Recently, genetic risk variants have been identified for SLI and dyslexia enabling the direct evaluation of possible shared genetic influences between these disorders. In this study we...
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