Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL:
Full Name: Javier Gayán Guardiola
Date of Birth: 8th August 1969
Place of Birth: Sevilla, Spain
EDUCATION:
EXPERIENCE:
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Center for Morphometric Analysis, Neuroscience Center,
Massachusetts General
Hospital.
Research Technician (1992-1993).
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
Institute for Behavioral Genetics
and Psychology Department.
Teaching Assistant for General Psychology, Statistics and Research Methods, and Concepts in Behavioral Genetics (1993-2000).
Research Graduate Assistant (1993-2000).
Research Associate (2000-2001).
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, U.K.
Wellcome Trust Centre for Human
Genetics.
Research Scientist (2001-present).
PUBLICATIONS:
Gayán J., Smith S.D., Cherny S.S., Cardon L.R., Fulker D.W., Brower A.M.,
Olson R.K., Pennington B.F., and DeFries J.C. (1999). Quantitative Trait
Locus for Specific Language and Reading Deficits on Chromosome 6p.
American Journal of Human Genetics, 64(1):
157-164.
Castles A., Datta H., Gayán J., and Olson R.K. (1999). Varieties of
Developmental Reading Disorder: Genetic and Environmental Influences.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 72(2):
73-94.
Gayán J. and Olson R.K. (1999). Reading Disability: Evidence for a
Genetic Etiology.
European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 8(Suppl. 3):
52-55.
Olson R.K., Datta H., Gayán J., and DeFries J.C. (1999). A
Behavioral-Genetic Analysis of Reading Disabilities and Component
Processes. In R.M. Klein & P.A. McMullen (Eds.), Converging Methods for
Understanding Reading and Dyslexia (p.133-151). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Kuntsi J., Gayán J., and Stevenson J. (2000). Parents' and teacher's
ratings of problem behaviours in children: Genetic and contrast effects.
Twin Research,
3(4):251-258.
Gayán J. (2001). La evolución del estudio de la dislexia
(The evolution of research on dyslexia).
Anuario de Psicología, 32(1):
3-30.
Olson R.K. and Gayan J. (2001).
Brains, Genes, and Environment in Reading Development. In S. Neuman and
D. Dickinson (Eds.). Handbook of Early Literacy Research (p. 81-94). The
Guilford Press, New York, NY.
Smith S.D., Kelley P.M., Askew J.W., Hoover D.M., Deffenbacher K.E.,
Gayán J., Brower A.M., Olson R.K. (2001).
Reading disability and chromosome 6p21.3: Evaluation of MOG as a
candidate gene.
Journal of
Learning Disabilities, 34(6):512-519.
Davis C.J., Gayán J., Knopik V.S., Smith S.D., Cardon L.R.,
Pennington B.F., Olson R.K., DeFries J.C. (2001). Etiology of
Reading Difficulties and Rapid Naming: The Colorado Twin Study of
Reading Disability.
Behavior Genetics,
31(6):625-635.
Gayán J. and Olson R.K. (2001).
Genetic and environmental influences on orthographic and phonological
skills in children with reading disabilities.
Developmental
Neuropsychology, 20(2):
483-507.
Compton D.L., Davis C.J., DeFries J.C., Gayán J. and Olson
R.K. (2001).
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Reading and RAN: An Overview
of Results from the Colorado Twin Study. In M. Wolf (Ed.). Conference
proceedings of Dyslexia Research Foundation Conference in Extraordinary
Brain Series: Time, Fluency, and Developmental Dyslexia
(pp. 277-303). York Press, Baltimore.
Fisher S.E., Francks C., Marlow A.J., MacPhie I.L., Newbury D.F., Cardon
L.R., Ishikawa-Brush Y., Richardson A.J., Talcott J.B., Gayán J.,
Olson R.K., Pennington B.F., Smith S.D., DeFries J.C., Stein J.F. and
Monaco A.P. (2002). Independent genome-wide scans identify a chromosome 18
quantitative-trait locus influencing dyslexia.
Nature Genetics, 30(1):
86-91.
Willcutt E.G., Pennington B.F., Smith S.D., Cardon L.R., Gayán J.,
Knopik V.S., Olson R.K., and DeFries J.C. (2002). Quantitative trait locus
for reading disability on chromosome 6p is pleitropic for
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
American Journal of Medical Genetics (Neuropsychiatric Genetics), 114(3):
260-268.
Kaplan D.E., Gayán J., Ahn J., Won T.-W., Pauls D., Olson R.K.,
DeFries J.C., Wood F., Pennington B.F., Page G.P., Smith S.D. and Gruen
J.R. (2002). Evidence for linkage and association with reading disability
on 6p21.3-22.
American Journal of Human
Genetics, 70(5):1287-1298.
Knopik V.S., Smith S.D., Cardon L., Pennington B., Gayan J., Olson R.K.
and DeFries J.C. (2002). Differential Genetic Etiology of Reading
Component Processes as a Function of IQ.
Behavior Genetics,
32(3):181-198.
Gayán J. and Olson R.K. (2003). Genetic and Environmental
Influences on Individual Differences in Printed Word Recognition.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 84(2):
97-123.
Last Update:
3 March 2003
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