23andMe Research Team and Quantitative Trait Working Group of the GenLang Consortium (2022). Discovery of 42 genome-wide significant loci associated with dyslexia. Nature Genetics, 54 (11), pp. 1621-1629.
Abstract
Reading and writing are crucial life skills but roughly one in ten children are affected by dyslexia, which can persist into adulthood. Family studies of dyslexia suggest heritability up to 70%, yet few convincing genetic markers have been found. Here we performed a genome-wide association study of 51,800 adults self-reporting a dyslexia diagnosis and 1,087,070 controls and identified 42 independent genome-wide significant loci: 15 in genes linked to cognitive ability/educational attainment, and 27 new and potentially more specific to dyslexia. We validated 23 loci (13 new) in independent cohorts of Chinese and European ancestry. Genetic etiology of dyslexia was similar between sexes, and genetic covariance with many traits was found, including ambidexterity, but not neuroanatomical measures of language-related circuitry. Dyslexia polygenic scores explained up to 6% of variance in reading traits, and might in future contribute to earlier identification and remediation of dyslexia.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01192-y |
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Divisions: | College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Psychology College of Health & Life Sciences > Aston Institute of Health & Neurodevelopment (AIHN) College of Health & Life Sciences > Clinical and Systems Neuroscience College of Health & Life Sciences College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Optometry > Vision, Hearing and Language Aston University (General) |
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Publication ISSN: | 1546-1718 |
Last Modified: | 02 Dec 2024 08:45 |
Date Deposited: | 03 Nov 2022 10:01 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2022-11 |
Published Online Date: | 2022-10-20 |
Accepted Date: | 2022-08-23 |
Submitted Date: | 2021-08-28 |
Authors: |
, 23andMe Research Team
, Quantitative Trait Working Group of the GenLang Consortium |