Genetics of dyslexia: the evolving landscape

J Schumacher, P Hoffmann, C Schmäl… - Journal of medical …, 2007 - jmg.bmj.com
Dyslexia is among the most common neurodevelopmental disorders, with a prevalence of 5–
12%. At the phenotypic level, various cognitive components that enable reading and …

Developmental dyslexia: genetic dissection of a complex cognitive trait

SE Fisher, JC DeFries - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2002 - nature.com
Developmental dyslexia, a specific impairment of reading ability despite adequate
intelligence and educational opportunity, is one of the most frequent childhood disorders …

Advances in dyslexia genetics—new insights into the role of brain asymmetries

S Paracchini, R Diaz, J Stein - Advances in genetics, 2016 - Elsevier
Dyslexia is a common condition affecting up to 10% school-aged children. There is strong
evidence that genetics plays an important role in dyslexia and is expected to be complex in …

Current understanding of the genetic basis of reading and spelling disability

WH Raskind - Learning Disability Quarterly, 2001 - journals.sagepub.com
Dyslexia is a common developmental disorder of unknown etiology. Behavioral and
biological studies of dyslexia are complicated by its phenotypic heterogeneity and the lack of …

Genetics of developmental dyslexia

TS Scerri, G Schulte-Körne - European child & adolescent psychiatry, 2010 - Springer
Developmental dyslexia is a highly heritable disorder with a prevalence of at least 5% in
school-aged children. Linkage studies have identified numerous loci throughout the genome …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into dyslexia genetics research from the last two decades

F Erbeli, M Rice, S Paracchini - Brain Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Dyslexia, a specific reading disability, is a common (up to 10% of children) and highly
heritable (~ 70%) neurodevelopmental disorder. Behavioral and molecular genetic …

Molecular genetics of dyslexia: an overview

A Carrion‐Castillo, B Franke, SE Fisher - Dyslexia, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Dyslexia is a highly heritable learning disorder with a complex underlying genetic
architecture. Over the past decade, researchers have pinpointed a number of candidate …

Continuing the search for dyslexia genes on 6p

EL Grigorenko, FB Wood, L Golovyan… - American Journal of …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
According to the data published by US Department of Education [1999], about 30% of US
fourth-grade students read below their expected grade level. Moreover, the reading skills of …

[HTML][HTML] The genetics of developmental dyslexia

J Williams, MC O'Donovan - European Journal of Human Genetics, 2006 - nature.com
Reading reflects the complex integration of several cognitive processes and proves more
difficult to achieve for a significant proportion of the population. Developmental dyslexia …

[HTML][HTML] The molecular genetics and neurobiology of developmental dyslexia as model of a complex phenotype

J Kere - Biochemical and biophysical research communications, 2014 - Elsevier
Among complex disorders, those concerning neuropsychiatric phenotypes involve particular
challenges compared to disorders with more easily distinguished clinical signs and …