Back to Africa: Tracing dyslexia genes in East Africa

Reading and Writing

Volumn 20, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 27-49

  Grigorenko, Elena L ^a,b,c   Naples, Adam ^b   Chang, Joseph ^b   Romano, Christina ^a   Ngorosho, Damaris ^d   Kungulilo, Selemani ^e   Jukes, Matthew ^f,g   Bundy, Donald ^h  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d Agency for the Development of Educational Management   (Tanzania)

^e MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h WORLD BANK   (United States)

Author keywords

Candidate genes; Dyslexia; Linkage analyses; Regional mapping; Swahili

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845774327     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-006-9017-y     Document Type: Article

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