Research over the past two decades has identified a group of common genetic variants
explaining a portion of variance in native language ability. The present study investigates …

Approximately 4% of English-speaking children are affected by specific language
impairment (SLI), a disorder in the development of language skills despite adequate …

Reading disability exhibited defects in different cognitive domains, including word reading
fluency, word reading accuracy, phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming and …

Family and twin studies of developmental dyslexia have consistently shown that there is a
significant heritable component for this disorder. However, any genetic basis for the trait is …

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 …

Several genes have been suggested as dyslexia candidates. Some of these candidate
genes have been recently shown to be associated with literacy measures in sample cohorts …

Purpose Language acquisition is predictive of successful reading development, but the
nature of this link is poorly understood. Method A sample of 7,179 twin pairs was assessed …

We examined the association between reading and general cognitive ability (g) in a
population-based sample of 6,476 pairs of 7-year-old twins. Additive genetic influences …

We carried out a genome-wide association study (GWAS) for general cognitive ability (GCA)
plus three other analyses of GWAS data that aggregate the effects of multiple single …

Developmental dyslexia (DD) is a complex heritable condition characterized by impaired
reading abilities. Two well-replicated candidate risk factors are as follows:(1) regulatory …