Laura L. Miller

TL;DR: Study sample size, which is likely a proxy for case assessment method, and the use of DSM‐IV‐TR diagnostic criteria are the major sources of heterogeneity across studies, which refines the population prevalence estimate of TS in children to be 0.3% to 0.9%.

TL;DR: Above-average verbal IQ seems to confer protection against social communication impairments in female subjects but not in male subjects, and social communicative deficits are of prognostic significance, in terms of behavioral adjustment at school, for boys and girls.

TL;DR: This work implicates CMIP and ATP2C2 in the etiology of SLI and provides molecular evidence for the importance of phonological short-term memory in language acquisition and supports the hypothesis that some causes of language impairment are distinct from factors that influence normal language variation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed common risk variants within dyslexia (reading disability; RD) and specific language impairment (SLI) candidate loci in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children cohort (n = 3725), representing children born in southwest England in the early 1990s, and detected associations between reading skills and KIAA0319, DCDC2, and CMIP.

TL;DR: This study suggests that co-occurring OCD and ADHD is markedly lower in TS cases derived from population-based samples than has been reported in clinically ascertained TS cases.