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Do Genes Associated with Dyslexia of Chinese Characters Evolve Neutrally?
Genes - 17 Jun 2020
Nishiyama Kumiko V, Satta Yoko, Gojobori Jun
Abstract excerpt
Dyslexia, or reading disability, is found to have a genetic basis, and several related genes have been reported. We investigated whether natural selection has acted on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that were reported to be associated with risk/non-risk for the reading disability of Chinese characters. We applied recently developed 2D SFS-based statistics to SNP data of East Asian populations to examine...
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