Stuttering is less to do with nervousness and more to with your genes, scientists have discovered, in a breakthrough that could lead to new drug treatments.
By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent
Around one per cent of the population suffer from a stutter at some time during their lives and it has been assumed it was a symptom of severe anxiety.
But now research has discovered three genes that appear to be linked to the condition.
The finding means that new drug treatments could be developed that switch off the genes involved and so remove the underlying cause.
The study, led by researchers at the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) in America, has identified three genes as a source of stuttering in volunteers in Pakistan, the United States, and England. Read More…
