Showing posts with label dyslexia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dyslexia. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

A Quick Review of a Dyslexia GWAS study claiming two significant loci

I will try to trim this review down to its barebones for an easier read, but welcome any comments or clarifications.  The study in question can be found here.

Genome Wide Association Scan identifies new variants associated with a cognitive predictor of dyslexia 

The study is on a much smaller scale, with only a few thousand cases, so one might expect fewer false positives.  In this case, likely we have two.