Developmental dyslexia: Genetic dissection of a complex cognitive trait

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 767-780

  Fisher, Simon E ^a   DeFries, John C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXP2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CHROMOSOME MAP; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DYSLEXIA; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; READING; REVIEW;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; COGNITION DISORDERS; DYSLEXIA; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; READING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0036779497     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn936     Document Type: Article

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