Update on Genetics Research in Stuttering

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Chromosome 12 in general stuttering population

From: Anonymous
Date: 17 Oct 2011
Time: 15:30:54 -0500
Remote Name: 76.181.74.51

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I have a question about how stuttering occurred in families that carried the genes you found on chromosome 12. My late grandfather, father, and I stutter. Neither my Dad's sister nor her children stutter. Neither my sister nor any of her children stutter. My grandfather had 5 sisters and none of them stutter or have children or grandchildren that stutter. My dad said something about my sister maybe stuttering briefly as a child and my great grandmother might have been the one that carried the stuttering gene because he knows of very distant relatives that stutter on her side, like 5th cousins. Basically, there is stuttering genetics in my family and there might be a pattern of male to male inheritance, but it doesn't really pattern in general, except for possibly autosomal dominant. Is there a trend for there to be a lot of relatives that do not stutter, but there is a small cluster of relatives that do? When you found the genes for chromosome 12 in the general stuttering population was it in small family clusters like I described or was there a much larger amount of stuttering in the family?


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