Dyslexia Journey: Support Your Kid Is Dyslexia Genetic?
In this episode, we dig into the research around the heritability of dyslexia.
Here are our sources for this discussion:
This is the 2021 study in Sweden that showed a heritability of 52%: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/dys.1681
This 2012 study identified 6 candidate genes: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140673612601986
A study from 2020. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-020-00898-x
An explanation of what we mean by heritability: https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/understanding/inheritance/heritability/
An overview of dyslexia and heritability: https://www.understood.org/en/articles/is-dyslexia-genetic
A 2007 literature review of the genetics of dyslexia: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2597981/
And older (1987) study: https://www.nature.com/articles/329537a0
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