Genome-wide analysis identifies a role for common copy number variants in specific language impairment
Acknowledgements We would like to thank all the families, professionals and individuals who participated in this research. DNF is an MRC Career Development Fellow and a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, University of Oxford. The work of the Newbury lab is funded by the Medical Research Council (G1000569/1 and MR/J003719/1). The collection of the SLIC samples was supported by the Wellcome Trust (060774 and 076566). The genotyping of samples was funded by the Max Planck Society. Recruitment of controls was supported by the Wellcome Trust (074318 and 088891), the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013; 281824) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Oxford Biomedical Research Centre. FC was supported by the PhD Programme in Molecular and Cellular Biology of the University of Bologna. PFB is supported by a National Institute of Health Research (UK) Senior Investigator award and the Biomedical Research Centre in Mental Health at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust Hospital, London, UK. The work of the Wellcome Trust Centre in Oxford is supported by the Wellcome Trust (090532/Z/09/Z). ; Peer reviewed ; Publisher PDF