Article
The interface between genetics and psychology: lessons from developmental dyslexia.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 May 2015
Bishop D V M
Abstract excerpt
Developmental dyslexia runs in families, and twin studies have confirmed that there is a substantial genetic contribution to poor reading. The way in which discoveries in molecular genetics are reported can be misleading, encouraging us to think that there are specific genes that might be used to screen for disorder. However, dyslexia is not a classic Mendelian disorder that is caused by a mutation in a single...
Topics
- Cognition Disorders
- Dyslexia
- Genotype
- Humans
- Phenotype