Hayley S Mountford1, Else Eising2, Pierre Fontanillas3

  • 1School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. hayley.mountford@ed.ac.uk.

Translational psychiatry
|August 18, 2025
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概括

这项研究通过分析超过100万名参与者,确定了80个与阅读障碍相关的遗传位置,包括13个新区域. 研究结果揭示了对认知特征和神经元发育的遗传联系,为阅读障碍生物学提供了新的见解.

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