Authors:
Carelli, Valerio
Achilli, Alessandro
Valentino, Maria Lucia
Rengo, Chiara
Semino, Ornella
Pala, Maria
Olivieri, Anna
Mattiazzi, Marina
Pallotti, Francesco
Carrara, Franco
Zeviani, Massimo
Leuzzi, Vincenzo
Carducci, Carla
Valle, Giorgio
Simionati, Barbara
Mendieta, Luana
Salomao, Solange
Belfort Jr, Rubens
Sadun, Alfredo A
Torroni, Antonio
Citation: Carelli, Valerio et al., Stuttering is a speech disorder long recognized to have a genetic component. Recent linkage studies mapped a susceptibility locus for stuttering to chromosome 12 in 46 highly inbred families ascertained in Pakistan. We report here on linkage studies in 100 families of European descent ascertained in the United States, Sweden, and Israel. These families included 252 individuals exhibiting persistent stuttering, 45 individuals classified as recovered from stuttering, and 19 individuals too young t, American journal of human genetics , 78(4), 2006, pp. 564-574