In the early and mid‐2000s, the first candidate genes for dyslexia started to emerge and revealed DYX1C1, DCDC2, KIAA0319 and ROBO1 as the main dyslexia susceptibility genes (for a contemporary review, see Fisher & Francks, 2006; Paracchini et al., 2007). Here, DNAAF4 is linked to dyslexia.