Breakthroughs in the search for dyslexia candidate genes

Trends in Molecular Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 333-341

  McGrath, Lauren M ^a   Smith, Shelley D ^b   Pennington, Bruce F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLECORTIN DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 2; DYSLEXIA SUSCEPTIBILITY 1 CANDIDATE 1 PROTEIN; GENE PRODUCT; KIAAO319 PROTEIN; ROUNDABOUT DROSOPHILA HOMOLOG 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BEHAVIOR GENETICS; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME 3P; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DYSLEXIA; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; SCREENING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AXONS; BRAIN; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; DYSLEXIA; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; READING; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC;

EID: 33746263663     PISSN: 14714914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2006.05.007     Document Type: Review

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