Linkage analyses of four regions previously implicated in dyslexia: confirmation of a locus on chromosome 15q

NH Chapman, RP Igo, JB Thomson… - American Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Dyslexia is a common, complex disorder, which is thought to have a genetic component.
There have been numerous reports of linkage to several regions of the genome for dyslexia …

Evaluation of candidate genes for DYX1 and DYX2 in families with dyslexia

Z Brkanac, NH Chapman… - American Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Dyslexia is a common heterogeneous disorder with a significant genetic component.
Multiple studies have replicated the evidence for linkage between variously defined …

Confirmation of a dyslexia susceptibility locus on chromosome 1p34‐p36 in a set of 100 Canadian families

J Tzenova, BJ Kaplan, TL Petryshen… - American Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Dyslexia is a common and genetically complex trait that manifests primarily as a reading
disability independent of general intelligence and educational opportunity. Strong evidence …

Evidence for a susceptibility locus on chromosome 6q influencing phonological coding dyslexia

TL Petryshen, BJ Kaplan, M Fu Liu… - American journal of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
A linkage study of 96 dyslexia families containing at least two affected siblings (totaling 877
individuals) has found evidence for a dyslexia susceptibility gene on chromosome 6q11. 2 …

Confirmation of dyslexia susceptibility loci on chromosomes 1p and 2p, but not 6p in a Dutch sib‐pair collection

CGF De Kovel, B Franke, FA Hol… - American Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we attempted to confirm genetic linkage to developmental dyslexia and reading‐
related quantitative traits of loci that have been shown to be associated with dyslexia in …

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 …

Genomewide scan for real‐word reading subphenotypes of dyslexia: Novel chromosome 13 locus and genetic complexity

RP Igo Jr, NH Chapman, VW Berninger… - American Journal of …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Dyslexia is a common learning disability exhibited as a delay in acquiring reading skills
despite adequate intelligence and instruction. Reading single real words (real‐word …

Fine mapping of the chromosome 2p12-16 dyslexia susceptibility locus: quantitative association analysis and positional candidate genes SEMA4F and OTX1

C Francks, SE Fisher, RK Olson… - Psychiatric …, 2002 - journals.lww.com
A locus on chromosome 2p12-16 has been implicated in dyslexia susceptibility by two
independent linkage studies, including our own study of 119 nuclear twin-based families …

Dense‐map genome scan for dyslexia supports loci at 4q13, 16p12, 17q22; suggests novel locus at 7q36

LL Field, K Shumansky, J Ryan… - Genes, Brain and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Analysis of genetic linkage to dyslexia was performed using 133,165 array‐based SNPs
genotyped in 718 persons from 101 dyslexia‐affected families. Results showed five linkage …

Genome scan of a nonword repetition phenotype in families with dyslexia: evidence for multiple loci

Z Brkanac, NH Chapman, RP Igo, MM Matsushita… - Behavior Genetics, 2008 - Springer
To understand the genetic architecture of dyslexia and identify the locations of genes
involved, we performed linkage analyses in multigenerational families using a phonological …