1. Introduction

   • Helmut Remschmidt
   • Gerd Schulte-Körne
   • Andreas Warnke

   EditorialNotes Pages: S1 - S1

2. Reading and spelling disorders: Clinical features and causes

   • Andreas Warnke

   OriginalPaper Pages: S2 - S12

3. The influence of different diagnostic approaches on familial aggregation of spelling disability

   • Helmut Remschmidt
   • K. Hennighausen
   • A. Warnke

   OriginalPaper Pages: S13 - S20

4. A candidate phenotype for familial dyslexia

   • Peter H. Wolff

   OriginalPaper Pages: S21 - S27

5. The role of phonological awareness, speech perception, and auditory temporal processing for dyslexia

   • G. Schulte-Körne
   • W. Deimel
   • H. Remschmidt

   OriginalPaper Pages: S28 - S34

6. Sampling strategies for model free linkage analyses of quantitative traits: Implications for sib pair studies of reading and spelling disabilities to minimize the total study cost

   • Andreas Ziegler

   OriginalPaper Pages: S35 - S39

7. Linkage analysis and genetic models in dyslexia — considerations pertaining to discrete trait analysis and quantitative trait analyses

   • B. Müller-Myhsok
   • T. Grimm

   OriginalPaper Pages: S40 - S42

8. Linkage analysis in heterogeneous and complex traits

   • Jurg Ott
   • Ajita Bhat

   OriginalPaper Pages: S43 - S46

9. A genome-wide search strategy for identifying quantitative trait loci involved in reading and spelling disability (developmental dyslexia)

   • Simon E. Fisher
   • John F. Stein
   • Anthony P. Monaco

   OriginalPaper Pages: S47 - S51

10. Reading disability: Evidence for a genetic etiology

    • J. Gayán
    • R. K. Olson

    OriginalPaper Pages: S52 - S55

11. Genetic linkage analysis with dyslexia: Evidence for linkage of spelling disability to chromosome 15

    • Markus M. Nöthen
    • G. Schulte-Körne
    • H. Remschmidt

    OriginalPaper Pages: S56 - S59