Moving closer to a public health model of language and learning disabilities: The role of genetics and the search for etiologies

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-5

  Miller, Brett ^a,b   McCardle, Peggy ^a,b  

^a EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Genetics; Language development; Learning disabilities; Literacy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING DISORDER; LINGUISTICS; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENESIS; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED STATES;

CHILD; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERNATIONALITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, GENETIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78651111073     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-010-9439-9     Document Type: Article

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