Genetic variance in a component of the language acquisition device: ROBO1 polymorphisms associated with phonological buffer deficits

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 50-57

  Bates, Timothy C ^a,b   Luciano, Michelle ^a   Medland, Sarah E ^b   Montgomery, Grant W ^b   Wright, Margaret J ^b   Martin, Nicholas G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Association; Dyslexia; Family based; Language; Reading ability; ROBO1; Specific language impairment; Spelling ability

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PROGENY; ROBO1 GENE; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPELLING; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; CHILD; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; DISEASES IN TWINS; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PHONETICS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUEENSLAND; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952443930     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: 15733297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-010-9402-9     Document Type: Article

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