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17119535
TITLE
Replication of reported linkages for dyslexia and spelling and suggestive evidence for novel regions on chromosomes 4 and 17.
ABSTRACT
We report the first genome-wide linkage analysis for reading and spelling in a sample of 403 families of twins, aged between 12 and 25 years taken from the normal population and unselected for reading ability. These traits showed heritabilities of 0.52-0.73, and support for linkage exceeded replication levels (lod > 1.44) of seven of the 11 linkages reported in dyslexic samples, namely: 2q22.3, 3p12-q13, 6q11.2, 7q32, 15q21.1, 18p21, and Xq27.3. For five of these (2q22.3, 6q11.2, 7q32, 18p21, and Xq27), this study provides the first independent replication. 1p34-36 and 2p15-16 received some support, with lods of 1.2 and 0.83, respectively, whereas two regions received little support (6p23-21.3 and 11p15.5). This study also identified two novel linkages at 4p15.33-16.1 and 17p13.3, which received suggestive support (max. lod 2.08 and 1.99, respectively).
DATE PUBLISHED
2007 Feb
HISTORY
PUBSTATUS PUBSTATUSDATE
aheadofprint 2006/11/22
pubmed 2006/11/23 09:00
medline 2007/03/17 09:00
entrez 2006/11/23 09:00
AUTHORS
NAME COLLECTIVENAME LASTNAME FORENAME INITIALS AFFILIATION AFFILIATIONINFO
Bates TC Bates Timothy C TC Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. tim.bates@ed.ac.uk
Luciano M Luciano Michelle M
Castles A Castles Anne A
Coltheart M Coltheart Max M
Wright MJ Wright Margaret J MJ
Martin NG Martin Nicholas G NG
INVESTIGATORS
JOURNAL
VOLUME: 15
ISSUE: 2
TITLE: European journal of human genetics : EJHG
ISOABBREVIATION: Eur. J. Hum. Genet.
YEAR: 2007
MONTH: Feb
DAY:
MEDLINEDATE:
SEASON:
CITEDMEDIUM: Print
ISSN: 1018-4813
ISSNTYPE: Print
MEDLINE JOURNAL
MEDLINETA: Eur J Hum Genet
COUNTRY: England
ISSNLINKING: 1018-4813
NLMUNIQUEID: 9302235
PUBLICATION TYPE
PUBLICATIONTYPE TEXT
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
COMMENTS AND CORRECTIONS
GRANTS
GRANTID AGENCY COUNTRY
N01-HG-65403 NHGRI NIH HHS United States
GENERAL NOTE
KEYWORDS
MESH HEADINGS
DESCRIPTORNAME QUALIFIERNAME
Chromosome Mapping
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 17 genetics
Chromosomes, Human, Pair 4 genetics
DNA Replication genetics
Dyslexia genetics
Genetic Linkage genetics
Genome, Human genetics
Humans genetics
Reading genetics
Siblings genetics
SUPPLEMENTARY MESH
GENE SYMBOLS
CHEMICALS
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