KIAA0319 and dyslexia: Previous reports of speech-evoked auditory brainstem abnormalities in individuals with dyslexia (Chandrasekaran et al. 2009; Hornickel and Kraus 2013; White-Schwoch et al. 2015), including a recent study demonstrating an association between ABR abnormalities and dyslexia risk loading for KIAA0319 alleles (Neef et al. 2017), have often emphasized the potential for brainstem abnormalities to arise from abnormalities in top-down modulation.