Article
Genetic studies of stuttering in a founder population.
Journal of fluency disorders - 1 Jan 2007
Wittke-Thompson Jacqueline K, Ambrose Nicoline, Yairi Ehud, Roe Cheryl, Cook Edwin H, Ober Carole, Cox Nancy J
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: Genome-wide linkage and association analyses were conducted to identify genetic determinants of stuttering in a founder population in which 48 individuals affected with stuttering are connected in a single 232-person genealogy. A novel approach was devised to account for all necessary relationships to enable multipoint linkage analysis. Regions with nominal evidence for linkage were found on...
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