A 77-kilobase region of chromosome 6p22.2 is associated with dyslexia in families from the United Kingdom and from the United States.

Several quantitative trait loci (QTLs) that influence developmental dyslexia (reading disability [RD]) have been mapped to chromosome regions by linkage analysis. The most consistently replicated area of linkage is on chromosome 6p23-21.3. We used association analysis in 223 siblings from the United...

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Main Authors: Francks, C, Paracchini, S, Smith, S, Richardson, A, Scerri, T, Cardon, L, Marlow, A, MacPhie, I, Walter, J, Pennington, B, Fisher, S, Olson, R, DeFries, J, Stein, J, Monaco, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Cell Press 2004