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Evidence for the involvement of ZNF804A in cognitive processes of relevance to reading and spelling.
Translational psychiatry - 10 Jul 2012
Becker J, Czamara D, Hoffmann P, Landerl K, Blomert L, Brandeis D, Vaessen A, Maurer U, Moll K, Ludwig K U, Müller-Myhsok B, Nöthen M M, Schulte-Körne G, Schumacher J
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies have shown that individuals with schizophrenia and dyslexia display common neurocognitive abnormalities. The aim of the present study was to determine whether known schizophrenia-risk genes contribute to dyslexia risk or to disease-relevant cognitive functions. For this purpose, we genotyped the schizophrenia-associated risk variants within zinc-finger protein 804A (ZNF804A), transcription-factor...
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