Dyslexia Polygenic Score prediction of specific cognitive abilities

The aim of the thesis is to give an understanding of dyslexia and the main cognitive tasks associated with it and to explain the research conducted on a twin sample from the Brisbane Adolescence Twin study . The introduction gives an overview of the literature available on the topic with a specific focus on the genetics of dyslexia. The second part of the thesis focuses on the study which uses a polygenic score for dyslexia to predict cognitive abilities with a Multivariate Multilevel Model.