The brain has trouble translating the information it is receiving from the eyes and ears into a coherent language. ... One SNP was a point mutation of a guanine to an adenine in the regulatory region of the gene, thus affecting how much gene product was made in the cell.(3) Another SNP was a guanine to a threonine resulting in an early termination stop codon yielding a shorter DYX1C1 protein.(3) The G-T transversion resulted in a glutamic acid being converted into an ochre stop codon. ... Thus, the dyslexia associated SNP G-A substation mutation was shown to affect the binding of the tr...

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