Dyslexia may be in your genes
Washington, October 11 : German researchers say that dyslexia, a learning disability
whose sufferers struggle with reading and writing, can occur due to genetic causes.
"We are trying to find out which genes cause the disease. A predisposition to dyslexia
could be detected by a genetic test to support affected children appropriately at a very
early age," says Arndt Wilcke, scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and
Immunology (IZI) in Leipzig.
The researcher says that the migration of nerve cells to their designated positions
during brain development at the embryonic stage is routed by specific genes, which, when
defective, can be a cause for dyslexia.
Wilcke points out that evidence for responsible "dyslexia genes" is already existing,
and the first steps towards a genetic test have been taken.
--ANI
