Cathy L. Barr

1 Introduction Specific reading disabilities (RD, developmental dyslexia) are the most common learning disability, affecting 5%–7% of children in North America [1, 2]. RD is a heritable (~66% heritability) [3-7], specific neurobiological learning disability characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and poor decoding (understanding the relations between verbal and written representations) [8].

Abstract Multiple lines of evidence implicate microRNAs (miRNAs) in major depressive disorder (MDD), including the location of miRNAs genes (MIRs) within genomic regions identified by genome wide association studies (GWAS). To investigate the role of MIRs in the genetic risk for MDD, we identified all associated single nucleotide polymorphism (SNPs) that were expression quantitative loci (eQTLs) for MIRs in brain tissues.

In a series of interviews with founders and board chairs of Canadian non-profits, one board chair shared the following: “The WE scandal was all over the papers, all over the news.