Candidate Gene Variant Effects on Language Disorders in Robinson Crusoe Island.

Conclusion The high prevalence of language disorders found on Robinson Crusoe Island is not caused by either a shared high-impact variant, or an increased burden of variants within candidate genes previously implicated in language disorders. We have comprehensively tested for 'low hanging fruit' in genes implicated in language disorders. Therefore, the underlying cause of TEL on Robinson Crusoe lies outside of these known language disorder genes, or within a complex susceptibility model. PMID: 31132892 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Annals of Human Biology - Category: Biology Tags: Ann Hum Biol Source Type: research