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SUBMITTER: Newbury DF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3029677 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Newbury D F DF Paracchini S S Scerri T S TS Winchester L L Addis L L Richardson Alex J AJ Walter J J Stein J F JF Talcott J B JB Monaco A P AP
Behavior genetics 20101217 1
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 investigate the role of variants in these genes (namely MRPL19/C20RF3, ROBO1, DCDC2, KIAA031 ...[more]