Family-based association mapping provides evidence for a gene for reading disability on chromosome 15q

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 843-848

  Morris, Derek W ^a   Robinson, Lucie ^a   Turic, Darko ^a   Duke, Mary ^a   Webb, Victoria ^a   Milham, Charis ^a   Hopkin, Elizabeth ^a   Pound, Kirsty ^a   Fernando, Shamira ^a   Easton, Martha ^a   Hamshere, Marian ^a   Williams, Nigel ^a   McGuffin, Peter ^b   Stevenson, Jim ^c   Krawczak, Michael ^a   Owen, Michael J ^a   O'Donovan, Michael C ^a   Williams, Julie ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME MAP; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 0034701254     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/9.5.843     Document Type: Article

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