TY - JOUR T1 - The KIAA0319 Gene Polymorphisms are Associated with Developmental Dyslexia in Chinese Uyghur Children JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/034660 SP - 034660 AU - Hua Zhao AU - Yun Chen AU - Bao-ping Zhang AU - Peng-xiang Zuo Y1 - 2015/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/12/17/034660.abstract N2 - To investigate the association of KIAA0319 gene polymorphisms and developmental dyslexia in individuals of Uyghurian descent. Eighteen single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) of gene KIAA0319 were screened in a group of 196 patients with dyslexia and 196 controls of Uyghur descent by determined the genotypes using a custom-by-design 48-Plex SNPscan™ Kit. SAS 9.1.3 software were used for data analysis. Seven SNPs(Pmm=0.001) of KIAA0319 have significant differences between the cases and controls under specific genotype models. Especially for rs6935076(Padjusted=0.020 under dominant model; Padjusted=0.028 under additive model) and rs3756821(Padjusted=0.021 under additive model), which still associated with dyslexia after Bonferroni correction. The linkage disequilibrium analysis showed four block within gene KIAA0319 and only the ten-maker haplotype(P=0.013) in block 4 was significantly more common in dyslexia children than in controls. The results indicated that genetic polymorphisms of KIAA0319 are associated with increased risk of developmental dyslexia in Uyghur population. ER -