A common variant associated with dyslexia reduces expression of the KIAA0319 gene

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Dennis, Megan Y ^a,b   Paracchini, Silvia ^a   Scerri, Thomas S ^a   Prokunina Olsson, Ludmila ^c   Knight, Julian C ^a   Wade Martins, Richard ^d   Coggill, Penny ^e   Beck, Stephan ^f   Green, Eric D ^b   Monaco, Anthony P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; KIAA0319 PROTEIN, HUMAN; NERVE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIAA0319 GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BINDING SITE; CELL LINE; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; NERVE CELL;

BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; DOWN-REGULATION; DYSLEXIA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR-1; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC;

EID: 63449106260     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000436     Document Type: Article

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