Psychological researchers typically distinguish five major domains of individual differences
in human behavior: cognitive abilities, personality, social attitudes, psychological interests …

Developmental dyslexia, a specific impairment of reading ability despite adequate
intelligence and educational opportunity, is one of the most frequent childhood disorders …

Behavioral Genetics, Fifth Edition provides an engaging and clear overview of human and
animal behavioral genetics that is designed to introduce students in the behavioral …

DYX2 on 6p22 is the most replicated reading disability (RD) locus. By saturating a
previously identified peak of association with single nucleotide polymorphism markers, we …

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 …

Dyslexia is a highly heritable learning disorder with a complex underlying genetic
architecture. Over the past decade, researchers have pinpointed a number of candidate …

Linkage between developmental dyslexia (DD) and chromosome 6p has been replicated in
a number of independent samples. Recent attempts to identify the gene responsible for the …

The Handbook of Child Language Disorders provides an in-depth, comprehensive, and
state-of-the-art review of current research concerning the nature, assessment, and …

BACKGROUND: Several susceptibility genes have been proposed for dyslexia (reading
disability; RD) and specific language impairment (SLI). RD and SLI show comorbidity, but it …

We searched for linkage disequilibrium (LD) in 137 triads with dyslexia, using markers that
span the most-replicated dyslexia susceptibility region on 6p21-p22, and found association …