Family-based association mapping provides evidence for a gene for reading disability on chromosome 15q

Morris, D. W., Robinson, L., Turic, D., Duke, M., Webb, V., Milham, C., Hopkin, E., Pound, K., Fernando, S., Easton, M., Hamshere, Marian Lindsay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8990-0958, Williams, Nigel Melville ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1177-6931, McGuffin, P., Stephenson, Jessica, Krawczak, M., Owen, Michael John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4798-0862, O'Donovan, Michael ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7073-2379 and Williams, Julie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4069-0259 2000. Family-based association mapping provides evidence for a gene for reading disability on chromosome 15q. Human Molecular Genetics 9 (5) , pp. 843-848. 10.1093/hmg/9.5.843

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Abstract

Family-based association mapping was used to follow up reports of linkage between reading disability (RD) and a genomic region on chromosome 15q. Using a two-stage approach, we ascertained 101 (stage 1) and 77 (stage 2) parent-proband trios, in which RD was characterized rigorously. In stage 1, a set of eight microsatellite markers spanning the region of putative linkage was used and a highly significant association was detected between RD and a three-marker haplotype (D15S994/D15S214/D15S146: P and empirical P < 0.001). A significant association with the same three-marker haplotype was also observed in the second-stage sample (P = 0.009, empirical P = 0.006). Our data therefore provide strong evidence for one or more genes contributing to RD being located in the vicinity of the region including D15S146 and D15S994. In addition, our results provide support for association analysis being a useful method to map susceptibility loci for complex disorders.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
Subjects:	R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0964-6906
Last Modified:	25 Oct 2024 01:23
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/81136

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